Quotes About Knowledge

In Viridia, women were oppressed because men were afraid of them. Women had ruled this country. And history had denigrated them. Erased them. Nomi was certain this wasn't what Renzo had been taught. He would have told her. But the Superior knew. Whoever had given her this book knew. And now she did too.

The world could do with fewer scholars and more cultivated people.

The hard, precipitous path of classical education ideally led not to knowledge alone, but to the cultivation of mind and spirit.

BARBARA: Right. (Beat) You've known about Daddy and Mattie Fae all these years. VIOLET: Oh, sure. I never told them I knew. But your father knew. He knew I knew. He always knew I knew. But we never talked about it. I chose the higher ground.

Intelligence is your ability to learn, and it's the same at age 15 as it is at age 50.

Good decisions require far more than factual knowledge. They are made using self-knowledge and emotional mastery when they're needed most.

You are the smartest children i know. You just don't beleive it.

Nicholas Benedict did have an exceptional gift for knowing things (more exceptional, in fact, than most adults would have thought possible), and yet not even he could know that this next chapter was to be the most unusual-and most important-of his entire childhood. Indeed, the strange days that lay ahead would change him forever, though for now they had less substance than the mist through which he ran.

It's a journal, Reynard. Every great thinker keeps a journal, you know.

earning without learning

felt increasingly bleary as a result of his late-night visits to the library. He could not help creeping downstairs to read each night, though. The temptation was too strong

Mr. Benedict, sir, have you read all the books in this house?" Mr. Benedict smiled, glancing fondly about at the many books in his study before looking at Reynie again. "My dear boy," he said, "what do you think?

Los labios de la sabiduría están cerrados, excepto para los oídos del entendimiento.

Craftmasonry itself came to an abrupt end in the beginning of the eighteenth century to be replaced by Freemasonry which tragically developed both an enlightened and a sinister stream. The enlightened stream inspired the writing of the American Constitution while the black adepts misused their occult knowledge for financial and political gain.

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A theoretical grounding in agronomy must, therefore, include knowledge of biological laws.

Close contact between science and the practice of collective farms and State farms creates inexhaustible opportunities for the development of theoretical knowledge, enabling us to learn ever more and more about the nature of living bodies and the soil.

THERE IS NO EMOTION; THERE IS PEACE. THERE IS NO IGNORANCE; THERE IS KNOWLEDGE. THERE IS NO PASSION; THERE IS SERENITY. THERE IS NO DEATH; THERE IS THE FORCE.

Wisdom and knowledge is everywhere, but so is stupity.

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Live blindly and upon the hour. The Lord,Who was the Future, died full long ago.Knowledge which is the Past is folly.

Facts are God's arguments; we should be careful never to misunderstand or pervert them

The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.

Apothegms are the wisdom of the past condensed for the instruction and guidance of the present.