Quotes About Knowledge

Every man should kno sumthing ov law--if he knows enuff tew keep out ov it, he iz a prety good lawyer.

Pedantry iz the science ov investing what little yu know in one kind ov perfumery, and insisting upon sticking that under every man's knose whom you meet.

True science knows that man invents nothing, but merely finds out what God has invented.

Truth is none the less true because it is undiscovered.

Your mind knows only somethings. Your inner voice, your instinct, knows everything. If you listen to what youknow instinctively, it will always lead you down the right path

I will therefore spend this Preface, rather about those, from whom I have gathered my knowledge; For I am but a gatherer and disposer of other mens stuffe, at my best value.

that the greater philosopher a man is, the more difficult it is for him to answer the foolish questions of common people;

For when a man is once in a book-shop curiosity seizes him to look here and there.

Nothing has been discovered, nothing has been invented. We can only know that we know nothing. And that's the highest degree of human wisdom.

Several times I asked myself, "Can it be that I have overlooked something, that there is something which I have failed to understand? Is it not possible that this state of despair is common to everyone?" And I searched for an answer to my questions in every area of knowledge acquired by man. For a long time I carried on my painstaking search; I did not search casually, out of mere curiosity, but painfully, persistently, day and night, like a dying man seeking salvation. I found nothing.

This child, with his naive outlook on life was the compass which showed them the degree of their departure from what they knew but did not want to know.

He had lived (without being aware of it) on those spiritual truths that he had sucked in with his mother's milk, but he had thought, not merely without recognition of these truths, but studiously ignoring them.

The only real science is the knowledge of how a person should live his life. And this knowledge is open to everyone.

There is only one real knowledge: that which helps us to be free. Every other type of knowledge is mere amusement. —VISHNU PURANA,

If only [people] understood that every thought is both false and true! False by one-sidenedness resulting from man's inability to embrace the whole truth, and true as an expression of one fact of human endeavor.

Art is the uniting of the subjective with the objective, of nature with reason, of the unconscious with the conscious, and therefore art is the highest means of knowledge.

The only thing that we know is that we know nothing, and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.

If a man has the will he can learn anything.

Women, especially those who have passed through the school of marriage, know very well that conversations upon elevated subjects are only conversations, and that man seeks and desires the body and all that ornaments the body.

True religion is that relationship, in accordance with reason and knowledge which man establishes with the infinite world around him, and which binds his life to that infinity and guides his actions.

It is better to know several basic rules of life than to study many unnecessary sciences. The major rules of life will stop you from evil and show you the good path in life; but the knowledge of many unnecessary sciences may lead you into the temptation of pride, and stop you from understanding the basic rules of life.

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Why ask? Why doubt what you cannot help knowing? Why use words when words cannot express what one feels?

Knowledge is limitless. Therefore, there is a minuscule difference between those who know a lot and those who know very little.