Quotes About Knowledge

The art of medicine was to be properly learned only from its practice and its exercise.

Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; love by love.

You never know yourself till you know more than your body.

We find also here Charles Haanel, with his Master Key System, and his Eastern Philosophy books like "The Amazing Secrets of the Yogi".

Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use

Knowledge is the eye that must direct the foot of obedience.

Obedience without knowledge is blind, and knowledge without obedience is lame.

The bare knowledge of God's will is inefficacious, it doth not better the heart. Knowledge alone is like a winter sun, which hath no heat or influence; it doth not warm the affections, or purify the conscience. Judas was a great luminary, he knew God's will, but he was a traitor.

Men think it a shame to be ignorant of their trade—but no shame to be ignorant of God. There is no going to heaven blindfold.

Were our love more set upon the preached word, our minds would be more fixed upon it; and surely there is enough to make us love the word preached; for it is the word of life, the inlet to knowledge, the antidote against sin, the quickener of all holy affections.

Seguramente la ignorancia en estos días es grande. Una cosa es no saber, otra cosa es no estar dispuesto a saber: "los hombres amaron más las tinieblas que la luz" (Juan 3:19).

Glorious things are spoken of God; he transcends our thoughts, and the praises of angels. God's glory lies chiefly in his attributes, which are the several beams by which the divine nature shines forth. Among other of his orient excellencies, this is not the least, The Lord is a God of knowledge; or as the Hebrew word is, 'A God of knowledges.

Thomas Watson

Get books into your houses, when you have not the spring near you, then get water into your cisterns; so when you have not that wholesome preaching that you desire, good books are cisterns that hold the water of life in them to refresh you. … So when you find a chillness upon your souls, and that your former heat begins to abate, ply yourselves with warm clothes, get those good books that may acquaint you with such truths as may warm and affect your hearts.

An hour spent reading is one stolen from paradise.".

It is this bloody-mindedness - the obsessive quest for wisdom though it brings no peace, the desire to gain knowledge of a future that cannot be circumvented, the relentless preparation for a doom that cannot be avoided - that reminds us of our own self-defeating consciousness, the knowledge of mortality that defines our humanity.

It'd take a guy a lifetime to know Brooklyn t'roo and t'roo. An' even den, yuh wouldn't know it all. Only the dead know Brooklyn t'roo an' t'roo.

The thought of these vast stacks of books would drive him mad: the more he read, the less he seemed to know — the greater the number of the books he read, the greater the immense uncountable number of those which he could never read would seem to be…. The thought that other books were waiting for him tore at his heart forever.

If he could not read all the volumes he wanted, he could at least 'hold books in his hand'.

One learns more from listening than speaking.And both the wind and the people who continue to live close to nature still have much to tell us which we cannot hear within university walls.

The Kon-Tiki expedition opened my eyes to what the ocean really is. It is a conveyor and not an isolator.

The task of science is investigation pure and simple," he said quietly. "Not to try to prove this or that." He

She reads a lot of books. Good things, books.

You don't know what you are talking about, and no one sounds so silly as one who tries to talk about something he knows nothing about.