Quotes About Knowledge

He who knows not that the Prince of Darkness is the other face of the King of Light knows not me.

Man is never truly wise until he has fathomed the riddle of his own existence

What was knowledge, what was truth, beauty, love, idealism, philosophy, or religion when compared to man's desire to control an infinitesimal spot in the fields of Cosmos for an inestimably minute fragment of time?

The fool lives but for today; the philosopher lives forever.

If the ignorant could be happy there'd be no reason for anyone to struggle to become wise. Nature has decreed that the ignorant can never be happy, and in their lack of knowledge is the secret of their own misfortunes.

Skepticism as propounded by Pyrrho of Elis (365-275 B.C.) and by Timon, Sextus Empiricus said that those who seek must find or deny they have found or can find, or persevere in the inquiry.

Without the mysterious keys carried by the hierophants of the Egyptian, Brahmin, and Persian cults the gates of Wisdom cannot be opened.

In a single figure a symbol may both reveal and conceal, for to the wise the subject of the symbol is obvious, while to the ignorant the figure remains inscrutable.

Those who suppose they have found truth are called Dogmatists; those who think it incomprehensible are the Academics; those who still seek are the Skeptics

Truth is not lost, yet it must be sought for and found.

Let a man accept with confidence valuable knowledge even from a person of low degree, good instruction regarding duty even from a humble man, and a jewel of a wife even from an ignoble family.

The man with hoary head is not revered as aged by the gods, but only he who has true knowledge; he, though young, is old.

C'est sidérant ! Comment fais-tu pour lire autant et rester aussi con ? - Hé hé ! C'est là tout mon génie !

Your reality, isn't restricted by this cell we live in. If you read something, if you study something, you transcend any cell you're inside of

Do you like reading? It's the best thing that can happen to you in life. Writing has other implications.

El verdadero sentido de la educación no es la acumulación de conocimientos, sino el enseñar a pensar. La libertad que toma conciencia.

Incierto es, en verdad, lo porvenir. ¿Quién sabe lo que va a pasar? Pero incierto es también lo pretérito, ¿quién sabe lo que ha pasado?   ANTONIO MACHADO Juan de Mairena

If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.

Our attitude towards ourselves should be to be satiable in learning and towards others to be tireless in teaching.

Swollen in head, weak in legs, sharp in tongue but empty in belly. (On intellectuals)

Yo creo que el mundo olvida hasta qué punto vivimos apoyados en lo desconocido. Hemos organizado una existencia lógica sobre un pozo de misterios

Os poetas são valiosíssimos aliados, cujo testemunho deve estimar-se em alto grau, pois costumam conhecer muitas coisas existentes no céu e na terra, que a nossa filosofia nem sequer suspeita. Na psicologia, sobretudo, encontram-se homens vulgares muito acima de nós, pois bebem na fonte a que não conseguimos ainda fazer chegar a ciência.

I was learning from the best.

knowledge isn't truly powerful until it's shared.