Quotes About Knowledge

View life as a continuous learning experience.

The highest knowledge is to know that we are surrounded by mystery. Neither knowledge nor hope for the future can be the pivot of our life or determine its direction. It is intended to be solely determined by our allowing ourselves to be gripped by the ethical God, who reveals Himself in us, and by our yielding our will to His.

You cannot find knowledge by rearranging your ignorance.

Learning without thought is labour lost; thought without learning is perilous.

Know it in your head, stow it in your heart, show it in your life, sow it in the world.

Don't just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.

You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know.

Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.

We learn not in the school, but in life

Life is a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter.

Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you'll see the way to fly.

Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries.

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

How late I learned the essential things in life! In my childhood, nailed to the Gemara, I led the life of a sage, and it was only later, when I was older, that I began to climb trees

For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men lived and worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.

Man is fed with fables through life, and leaves it in the belief he knows something of what has been passing, when in truth he has known nothing but what has passed under his own eye

Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only.

An expert is someone who has succeeded in making decisions and judgements simpler through knowing what to pay attention to and what to ignore.

Ignorance is the peace of life.

I wish life was not so short, he thought. languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.

Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience.

Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life and literature.

Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled This could change your life.

That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.