Quotes About Knowledge

History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.

Without education, you are not going anywhere in this world.

Arabic gives English technical terms such a nadir, azimuth, and zenith.

The richest person in the world - in fact all the riches in the world - couldn't provide you with anything like the endless, incredible loot available at your local library.

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

The key to good decision making is not knowledge. It is understanding. We are swimming in the former. We are desperately lacking in the latter.

our world requires that decisions be sourced and footnoted, and if we say how we feel, we must also be prepared to elaborate on why we feel that way...We need to respect the fact that it is possible to know without knowing why we know and accept that - sometimes - we're better off that way.

The point is, could God pass an examination in Theology?

One thing you learn in life is almost everything your grandmother told you when you were young, and which you thought at the time was just the lunacy of old age, is actually true.

The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.

People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.

The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.

You must nourish the body with healthy food, the heart with joy, compassion and love, the mind with knowledge and the spirit with equanimity and self-awareness. . . . If you fill yourself with other kinds of satisfaction, food will no longer be a problem.

A yawning hole deep inside me was begging to be filled up with words and thoughts and ideas and facts and fictions." Callum McGregor

Books and knowledge don't make for a safe world. Just the opposite. Books and knowledge are facets of the truth and the truth can be very dangerous.

He suddenly seemed so much older, not just in years but in the things he knew and had experienced.

She sees afresh how knowledge feeds the soul and how minds laid open to well-crafted words grow richer; and she sees that, given the chance, the only limits to complex understanding are those imposed by lack of opportunity and damaged self-belief.

Many admire ,few know, education is one of all...

I hate the word 'simple'. Nobody has any business to live in the world and know nothing about its ways.

Experiences are the chemicals of life with which the philosopher experiments

the path of salvation could be walked successfully only by those who had practical, scientific knowledge of the occult function of their own bodies.

There is no doubt that the Old Testament is a physiological and anatomical textbook to those capable of reading it from a scientific viewpoint.

Wisdom is given to no man until he asks for it.