Quotes About Knowledge

I am not here only so that the blind might see, but to teach those who thought they could see that they are blind

I wonder, said the Lord I wonder if I know the answer any more.

Most people, no matter how brilliant, are vessels. Once you come to the end of what is interesting in them, you can touch the side of the jar. There will be nothing afterward but repetition of what you have learned already. It might take a night, a year, or half a lifetime, but once you can reach the side of the vessel, a good part of the larger feeling is gone.

neither knowledge nor imagination comes easily, it is buried in the pain of one's forgotten experience, and so one must work to find it, one must occasionally exhaust oneself by digging into the self in order to perceive the outside.

Consciousness, that blunt tool, bucks in the general direction of the truth. Instinct plucks the feather.

The aim of these gatherings is to acquaint you with the factology of facts. One has to know whether one is dealing with the essential or the circumferential fact. Historical data, after all, tend to be not particularly factual and subject to revision by later researchers. You must look to start, therefore, with the fact that cannot be smashed into sub-particles of fact.

There is no loneliness, I decided then, that is worse than being ignorant of the worth of your soul.

If these really smart philosophers can't agree on what wisdom says, why should I pay them any attention? The answer is——because it's the best shot you've got. If you seriously want to improve your opinions, there's nothing better you can do than engage in a conversation with the best minds our history has produced.

Thanksgiving is the power that transforms desire and satisfaction, love and possession, into life, that fulfills everything in the world, given to us by God, into knowledge of God and communion with him.2

Nobody is capable of of free speech unless he knows how to use language, and such knowledge is not a gift: it has to learned and worked at. [p.93]

The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book.

A person who knows nothing about literature may be an ignoramus, but many people don't mind being that.

The motive for metaphor ... is a desire to associate, and finally to identify, the human mind with what goes on outside it, because the only genuine joy you can have is in those rare moments when you feel that although we may know in part, as Paul says, we are also a part of what we know.

Wisdom is the central form which gives meaning and position to all the facts which are acquired by knowledge, the digestion and assimilation of whatever in the material world the man comes in contact with.

In this box are all the words I know…Most of them you will never need, some you will use constantly, but with them you may ask all the questions which have never been answered and answer all the questions which have never been asked. All the great books of the past and all the ones yet to come are made with these words. With them there is no obstacle you cannot overcome. All you must learn to do is to use them well and in the right places.

it's not just learning that's important. It's learning what to do with what you learn and learning why you learn things that matters.

For you often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than you do by being right for the wrong reasons.

it's not just learning that's important. It's learning what to do with what you learn and learning why you learn things that matters.

The Mathemagician nodded knowingly and stroked his chin several times. "You'll find," he remarked gently, "that the only thing you can do easily is be wrong, and that's hardly worth the effort.

You can swim all day in the Sea of Knowledge and still come out completely dry. Most people do.

My goodness', thought Milo. 'Everybody is so terribly sensitive about the things they know best.

Whatever we learn has a purpose and whatever we do affects everything and everyone else, if even in the tiniest way...for whenever you learn something new, the whole world becomes that much richer.

And it's much the same thing with knowledge, for whenever you learn something new, the whole world becomes that much richer.

but it's not just learning things that's important. It's learning what to do with what you learn and learning why you learn things at all that matters.