Quotes About Knowledge

Reading: the best way I know to inhabit other lives, travel to distant places, have great adventures, gain knowledge and experience the world.

No matter how much you write and do other things, make time to read.

Writing is the gateway to learning about one's self. Reading is the gateway to learning about the world.

A true knowledge of ourselves is knowledge of our power.

Rather than a story of sin, Genesis 2–3 explicitly relates a transferal of the knowledge of good and evil from the deity to the humans.

Pleasure and pain are immediate; knowledge, retrospective. A steel ball, suspended on a string, smacks into its brothers and nothing happens: no shock of recognition, no sudden epiphany. We go about our business, buttering the toast, choosing gray socks over brown. But here's the thing: just because we haven't understood something doesn't mean we haven't been shaped by it.

I was raised to be ashamed of my ignorance, and to try to do something about it if at all possible.

Yet Yogi Bhajan describes mastery of this practice as arising from teaching it: "If you want to learn something," he says, "read it. If you want to know something, write it. If you want to MASTER something, Teach it!" (Bhajan).

The more you know, the more you don't know," the further you go in your training, learning, and experience as a yoga teacher, the more you'll realize that there's an infinite universe of knowledge and wisdom to bring to the practice.

They are our children. We owe it to them to arm them with good knowledge, model healthy relationships, and understand that the relationships they see in the movies, on TV, and hear about in songs are usually not real and not healthy.

An "event" is something that happens that does not quite fit into our established system of knowledge, and so it will appear to us as something unaccountable, something that we cannot quite get our minds around even as we recognize the great importance of the encounter. Badiou identifies

There was never a century nor a country that was short of experts who knew the Deity's mind and were willing to reveal it.

Education is the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.

If you don't read the newspaper, you are uninformed; if you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed.

His ignorance covers the world like a blanket, and there's scarcely a hole in it anywhere

He had only one vanity; he thought he could give advice better than any other person

If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.

Don't let schooling interfere with your education.

All you need is ignorance and confidence and the success is sure.

We could use up two Eternities in learning all that is to be learned about our own world and the thousands of nations that have arisen and flourished and vanished from it. Mathematics alone would occupy me eight million years.

Get your facts first, and then you can distort 'em as much as you please.

I've never let my school interfere with my education.

We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that a savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.

A person that started in to carry a cat home by the tail was gitting knowledge that was always going to be useful to him, and warn't ever going to grow dim or doubtful.