Quotes About Knowledge

Learning without thinking is wasted effort; thinking without learning is dangerous

He who knows all the answers has not been asked all the questions

The Master said, "Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous." The Master said, "The study of strange doctrines is injurious indeed!"               The Master said, "Yu, shall I teach you what knowledge is? When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it;-this is knowledge.

lesson about knowledge? When you know a thing, maintain that you know it; and when you do not, acknowledge your ignorance. This is characteristic of knowledge.

You do not understand even life. How can you understand death?

I was not born with wisdom. I love the ancient teachings and have worked hard to attain to their level.

I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand.

To know oneself is the beginning of wisdom.

He answered, How dare I look as high as Hui? When Hui hears one thing, he understands ten; when I hear one thing I understand two.

IgnoranÈ›a genereaz? mai des încredere în sine decât cunoÈ™tinÈ›ele.

To know what is first and what is last will lead near to what is taught in the Great Learning.

The knowledge that she was needed by something living, that she could benefit another creature, produce happiness, or contentment, or just a feeling of security--somehow it filled a part of her as nothing else had.

Books are an amazing thing. Anyone who thinks of them as an escape from reality or as something you should get your nose out of and go outside and play, or as merely a distraction or an amusement or a waste of time is - dead wrong. Books are the most important the most powerful the most beautiful thing humans have ever created.

Ludzie mówiÄ…, ?e ksi??ki sÄ… azylem od tego Å›wiata, i majÄ… racjÄ™.

book is written in question-and-answer style with a minimum of professional jargon.

Deep in each man is the knowledge that something knows of his existence. Something knows, and cannot be fled nor hid from.

The frailty of everything revealed at last. Old and troubling issues resolved into nothingness and night. The last instance of a thing takes the class with it. Turns out the light and is gone. Look around you. Ever is a long time. But the boy knew what he knew. That ever is no time at all.

It is personal. That's what an education does. It makes the world personal.

Just remember that the things you put into your head are there forever, he said.

The man who believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Superstition will drag him down.

The universe is no narrow thing and the order within it is not constrained by any latitude in its conception to repeat what exists in one part in any other part. Even in this world more things exist without our knowledge than with it and the order in creation which you see is that which you have put there, like a string in a maze, so that you shall not lose your way. For existence has its own order and that no man's mind can compass, that mind itself being but a fact among others.

In history there are no control groups. There is no one to tell us what might have been. We weep over the might have been, but there is no might have been. There never was. It is supposed to be true that those who do not know history are condemned to repeat it. I don't believe knowing can save us. What is constant in history is greed and foolishness and a love of blood and this is a thing that even God--who knows all that can be known--seems powerless to change.

If a man's at odds to know his own mind it's because he hasn't got aught but his mind to know it with.

Books lie, he said. God dont lie. No, said the judge. He does not. And these are his words. He held up a chunk of rock. He speaks in stones and trees, the bones of things. The squatters in their rags nodded among themselves and were soon reckoning him correct, this man of learning, in all his speculations, and this the judge encouraged until they were right proselytes of the new order whereupon he laughed at them for fools.