Quotes About Knowledge

To teach what one doesn't know is simply to ask questions about what one doesn't know.

La pensée ne se transmet pas à l'action. C'est une pensée qui se transmet à une pensée et une action qui en provoque une autre. La pensée agit pour autant qu'elle accepte de ne pas très bien savoir ce qui la pousse elle-même et renonce à garder la maîtrise de ses effets

Whoever teaches without emancipating stultifies.

Moreover, man carries in his heart the desire always to wield his scientific knowledge in service of the greater good. He would of course never use it for destructive purposes. Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! ...

What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what's going on.

A learned person among ignorant people, is like a live person among the dead.

Seek Knowledge and adorn it with forbearance and dignity. Be humble to those whom you teach and to those from whom you learn. Don't be tyrannical in your teaching conduct, for you will forfeit that to which you are entitled to (the reward) on account of it.

Precision, accuracy and pondering in wisdom and sciences, will nourish and develop a person's brain.

There are two kinds of scholars: those who act on their knowledge, these are the saved ones; and those who do not put into practise what they know, these are led to their downfall.

The person who associates with scholars, will have his reputation exalted.

It makes no sense at all if people consider the one who lacks knowledge and science as a prosperous person.

Everything has its tax and the tax of knowledge is to teach its people.

Write knowledge since you cant memorize unless with writing. Heart confides to written.

Confusion is a good state to be in. It means you are looking, constantly looking. People ask me, "Why do you confuse us like this?" I want you to understand, if you can be confused by anybody, it means you do not know. If you are fanatical, you cannot be confused. Or if you are realized, you cannot be confused. Between ignorance and enlightenment is a very thin line. But they are worlds apart.

There is only one calamity: ignorance. And there is only one solution: enlightenment.

Only facts will help you escape -- not hopes, fears or wishes.

Only children entertain the fantasy that adults know how and why everything works. Being an adult is accepting the not knowing.

You go through more bestsellers than a McCarthy bonfire.

I love to read

Education is like an OCEAN where you can see some different CREATURES with different Abilities

The sun was shining but the air was cold. It was the middle of January, after all. But I did not know that the sun could shine and the air remain cold; no one had ever told me.

I was a new person then, I knew things I had not known before, I knew things that you can know only if you have been through what I had just been through.

Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.

Public libraries have been a mainstay of my life. They represent an individual's right to acquire knowledge; they are the sinews that bind civilized societies the world over. Without libraries, I would be a pauper, intellectually and spiritually.