Quotes About Knowledge

I hear and I forget I see and I remember I do and I understand.

The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.

How can anyone be a pessimist in a world where we know so little?

I focus on what's really important in life. Quality rather than appearance, ethics rather than rules,integrity rather than domination, knowledge rather than achievement, serenity rather than acquisitions.

It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble; it's what you know for sure that just ain't so.

El hombre ha renunciado al saber silencioso en favor del mundo de la razón. Cuanto más se aferra al mundo de la razón, más efímero es el propósito».

Living by Silent Knowing This is probably the best-known verse of the Tao Te Ching. In fact, the opening two lines ("Those who know do not talk. Those who talk do not know") are so popular that they've almost become a cliché. Nevertheless

How do I know the ways of all things at the beginning? I look inside myself and see what is within me.

One who understands others has knowledge; one who understands himself has wisdom.

You told us over and over that you don't think you could live without books, but the ironic thing is, you'd probably die before you'd think to rip pages out of one to start a fire. Am I right? Well, get over it already. Better to be warm then well-read.

I'd had the idea, once, that if I could get the chance before I died I would read all the good books there were. Now I began to see that I wasn't apt to make it. This disappointed me, for I really wanted to read them all.

The difference between a path and a road is not only the obvious one. A path is little more than a habit that comes with knowledge of a place. It is a sort of ritual of familiarity. As a form, it is a form of contact with a known landscape. It is not destructive. It is the perfect adaptation, through experience and familiarity, of movement to place; it obeys the natural contours; such obstacles as it meets it goes around.

Want of imagination makes things unreal enough to be destroyed. By imagination I mean knowledge and love. I mean compassion. People of power kill children, the old send the young to die, because they have no imagination. They have power. Can you have power and imagination at the same time? Can you kill people you don't know and have compassion for them at the same time?

We are going to have to gather up the fragments of knowledge and responsibilities that have been turned over to governments, corporations, and specialists, and put those fragments back together again in our own minds and in our families and household and neighborhoods.

In order to survive, a plurality of true communities would require not egalitarianism and tolerance but knowledge, an understanding of the necessity of local differences, and respect. Respect, I think, always implies imagination - the ability to see one another, across our inevitable differences, as living souls. (pg. 181, Sex, Economy, Freedom, and Community)

I was a young man. I hardly knew what I knew, let alone what I was going to know.

To define knowledge as merely empirical is to limit one's ability to know; it enfeebles one's ability to feel and think.

We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true.

The way of education leads away from home. That is what we learned from our children's education.

If there is anything more fun than learning, I would appreciate someone telling me what it is…soon.

What man knows is little enough and most of his general concepts in every field are vitiated by the artificial concepts he has created to cover his ignorance. These concepts must be destroyed. One tool exists that can accomplish this destruction, and this tool is in your hands. It is simply curiosity—the instinct to ask and to question. It should be kept sharp and used without mercy.

The ultimate ground of faith and knowledge is confidence in God.

Reason, tradition, speculative conviction, dead orthodoxy, are a girdle of spider-webs. They give way at the first onset. Truth alone, as abiding in the mind in the form of divine knowledge, can give strength or confidence even in the ordinary conflicts of the Christian life, much more in any really "evil day.

Reason is necessarily presupposed in every revelation. Rev. is the communication of truth to the mind. But the communication of truth supposes the capacity to receive it.