Quotes About Knowledge

The cherubim of love are better far Than pillared wisdom's most seraphic star. And knowledge cannot bring the sweet delight Of childhood's faith that pierces darkest night.

When first we pay the price of wisdom With innocence, We are too shocked to understand. Then later must we sit and wonder Whether it was worth the cost To know what every one must some day know. And knowing, ever after be afraid, And filled with shame.

The Royal Road to Knowledge, all may win, Who seek the source of Life in everything.

Religion, like all things, begins with self, And naught is known, until one knows himself.

The knowledge which we have acquired ought not to resemble a great shop without order, and without an inventory; we ought to know what we possess, and be able to make it serve us in need.

It is God who is the ultimate reason of things, and the Knowledge of God is no less the beginning of science than his essence and will are the beginning of things.

I hold that it is only when we can prove everything we assert that we understand perfectly the thing under consideration.

I am convinced that the unwritten knowledge scattered among men of different callings surpasses in quantity and in importance anything we find in books, and that the greater part of our wealth has yet to be recorded.

p.14: La esencia de la llamada economía del conocimiento es enormes flujos de inversión para capital humano lo mismo que para tecnología informática.

Witchcraft to the ignorant, .... Simple science to the learned.

You can't destroy knowledge. You can stamp it under and burn it up and forbid it to be, but somewhere it will survive.

I will not be cleansed of knowledge. Knowledge is not like sin. There is no mystical escape from it. And

I entrench myself in books equally against sorrow and the weather.

The paradox of our modern world is that we know so much about so many things, about how things work, but so little about who we are as persons, why we are.

Science ... is organized common sense.

Metaphysics is the clearing house for all fundamental philosophical problems.

Immediate knowledge tells us only that God is, not what he is. But if God is not an empty Being beyond the stars, he must be present in the communion of human spirits, and, in his relation to these, he is the One Spirit who pervades reality and thought. Hence there can be no final separation between our immediate consciousness of him and our mediated knowledge of reality.

dizer quantos autores temos lido, o quanto somos familiarizados com os escolásticos, quão linguisticamente críticos nós somos ou coisa semelhante. É uma miserável ostentação".

Each co-operative institution will become a school of business in which each member will acquire a knowledge of the laws of trade and commerce.

Just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so.

No matter who you are, no matter where you live, and no matter how many people are chasing you, what you don't read is often as important as what you do read.

No matter who you are, no matter where you live, and no matter how many people are chasing you, what you don't read is often as important as what you do read.

Even though there are no ways of knowing for sure, there are ways of knowing for pretty sure.

Those unable to catalog the past are doomed to repeat it.