Quotes About Knowledge

And then there are the laziest and most presumptuous of people, those who can read but who don't bother, who live in the smuggest ignorance and seem to me dangerous.

If I read enough about one country I sometimes found that the intensity of the reading removed by desire to travel there.

I cannot think of any writer of stature in English who has not shown a knowledge of the Bible.

Read to live better.

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I found it depressing that no one in Mongolia should know anything of Chernobyl, especially when they themselves had the same sort of nuclear power plants. It was bad enough that they have been colonized and occupied by the Soviets, but it was much worse that this paternalism was taken so literally that they were treated like children and not told anything.

His education was sketchy, yet he was immensely learned in the oblique and selective way of someone self-taught.

For Sale: Complete set of encylopedias. Never used. Wife knows everything.

I am very old, very cynical of the world, and I know it all. In short, I am seventeen years old, parking off a dark lane with a married man on an early summer night.

This is writing. This is printing. This tells us of all the things we ought to know in the world. And also that we ought to want to know.

What is a teacher? I'll tell you: it isn't someone who teaches something, but someone who inspires the student to give of her best in order to discover what she already knows.

Everything you need to know you have learned through your journey.

It is not time that changes man nor knowledge the only thing that can change someone's mind is love.

It is possible to avoid pain? Yes, but you'll never learn anything. Is it possible to know something without ever having experiencing it? Yes, but it will never truly be part of you.

Read. Forget everything you've been told about books and read.

That's what the world is like: people talk as if they knew everything, but ifyou dare to ask a question, they don't know anything.

What does learning mean: accumulating knowledge or transforming your life?

You have understood what all great painters understand: in order to forget the rules, you must know them and respect them.

The soil needs the seed and the seed needs the soil. The one only has meaning with the other. It is the same thing with human beings. When male knowledge joins with female transformation, then the great magical union is created, and its name is wisdom. Wisdom means both to know and to transform.

I only invoked what you already knew.

And they will return one day knowing the miracle of the heavens and of all the world. God knew what he was doing when he drew their attention to the tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. If he hadn't wanted them to eat it, he would never have mentioned it.

The future would end up finding out the truth about the past.

Learning something means coming into contact with a world of which you know nothing. In order to learn, you must be humble.

The boy was beginning to understand that intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life, where the histories of all people are connected, and we are able to know everything, because it's all written there.