Quotes About Knowledge

Life is a traveling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.

They looked at each other and laughed, then looked away, filled with darkness and secrecy. Then they kissed and remembered the magnificence of the night. It was so magnificent, such an inheritance of a universe of dark reality, that they were afraid to seem to remember. They hid away the remembrance and the knowledge.

Lads learn nothing nowadays, but how to recite poetry and play the fiddle.

Sabemos hacer cosas pero no sabemos vivir. Es curioso ese rasgo familiar.

Wisdom has reference only to the past. The future remains for ever an infinite field for mistakes.

I really do not want to be forced into all this criticism and analysis of life. I really do want to see things in their entirety, with their beauty left to them, and their wholeness, their natural holiness.Don't you feel it, don't you feel you can't be tortured into any more knowledge?

Learning was the only distinction to which she thought to aspire.

What the eye doesn't see and the mind doesn't know, doesn't exist

be the half-day at the Grammar

He had kept the surface of his confidence in her quite serene. And that is how we are. By strength of will we cut off our inner intuitive knowledge from admitted consciousness. This causes a state of dread, or apprehension, which makes the blow ten times worse when it does fall.

I count it a mistake of our mistaken democracy, that every man who can read print is allowed to believe that he can read all that is printed. I count it a misfortune that serious books are exposed in the public market, like slaves exposed naked for sale. But there we are, since we live in an age of mistaken democracy, we must go through with it.

Yet we must know, if only in order to learn not to known. The supreme lesson of human consciousness is to learn how not to know. That is, how not to interfere. That is, how to live dynamically, from the great Source, and not statically, like machines driven by ideas and principles from the head, or automatically from one fixed desire. At last, knowledge must be put into its true place in the living activity of man. And we must know deeply, in order to do that.

Wisdom has reference only to the past. The future remains for ever an infinite field for mistakes. You can't know beforehand.

Even the real scientist works in the sense of wonder. The pity is, when he comes out of his laboratory he puts aside his wonder along with his apparatus, and tries to make it all perfectly didactic.

As one person always said Good things come to those who wait. You don't have to be connivingly sneaky and passing judgement if one don't use protection, so you can have your fantasies. If you do others right, the lord will bless right judgements and knowledge.

We can alter an individual's knowledge about the world. Indeed, profound social change often begins in shifts in understanding the world.

Only knowledge that is used sticks in your mind.

about 15 percent of one's financial success is due to one's technical knowledge and about 85 percent is due to skill in human engineering—to personality and the ability to lead people.

i really like reading books

Bernard Shaw once remarked: 'If you teach a man anything, he will never learn.

the great aim of education,' said Herbert Spencer, 'is not knowledge but action.

As Lord Chesterfield said to his son: Be wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so.

One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing.

Shaw once remarked: "If you teach a man anything, he will never learn." Shaw was right. Learning is an active process. We learn by doing.