Quotes About Knowledge

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

Knowledge can bring many things..but the consciousness of the heart brings love, and love brings everything

You cannot teach what you don't know. You cannot give what you don't have. You cannot forgive what you can't forget. But you can love even if you're not being loved back.

There's no guarantee of disaster-free in any world religion, but love, faith and knowledge give men hope and willpower.

We like to think we are rational beings living logical lives based upon objective facts. But the truth is, we are rationalizing beings who base most of our decisions on what we feel or believe and come up with the logic to justify our decisions afterwards. We don't really know as much as we think we do.

we base our lives more on what we believe than on what we actually know.

When, at a closer glance, so many objects are questionable, when all knowledge seems to be clothed in a kind of deep unknowing, why do we still place any trust at all in reality as it appears to us, in the world in which we seem to live?

Ein Reich ohne Bücher, ist ein verlorenes Reich.

I don't see why I should disguise the magnificence of my education when you do nothing to hide the paucity of yours.

You can't eat books, sweetheart.

Immer müssen die Denkenden darauf verzichten zu leben, und die Lebenden haben es nicht nötig zu denken. Die erlösende Tat wird nie getan werden, denn der die Kraft hätte, sie zu tun, weiß nicht, dass er sie tun muss, und der Wissende ist unfähig zu handeln.

Solo sabemos de verdad una cosa cuando el conocimiento de ella se extiende lentamente por todo el cuerpo.

Ce n'est que lorsque la connaissance d'une chose se répand dans le corps qu'on la sait vraiment. C'est ainsi que je n'ignore pas, comme tout un chacun, que je vais mourir, mais mes pieds, mes mains, mes entrailles l'ignorent encore et c'est pourquoi la mort me semble irréelle.

I knew I could trust her. She was a librarian, after all. It was their job to save lives with books.

Make me tell you something else about reading. You see this? Every time you open this you get free. Freeness up in here and nobody even have to know you get free but you." ~Homer, The Book of Night Women

Nobody ever own a gun. You don't know that until you own one.

Some people just fated to fuck up even when them smart enough to know better.

Jah know, sometimes I don't learn till too late, and to know something too late? Well is better you never know as my mother used to say. Worse, you all present tense and have to deal with sudden past tense all around you. It's like realizing somebody rob you a year late. So

Looking? —Ah . . . no . . . —Then how you're gonna know when you found it?

We don't own truth. Truth is truth and nothing you can do about it even if you hide it, or kill it, or even tell it. It was truth before you open your mouth and say, That there is a true thing.

I was a fool. I thought you learned the old ways by forgetting the new.

knowledge of some sort of sick white science

Know something too late? Well, is better you never know, as my mother used to say. Worse, you all present tense and have to deal with sudden past tense all around you. It's like realizing somebody rob you a year late.

The size of the Earth has been known for more than two thousand years, although the number was lost or disputed when the Earth went from being round to being flat again in the Middle Ages (under the prodding of Christian heaven-watchers, the Greek philosophers' [Eratosthenes 276-194 BC] work was erased in Europe and preserved only by Muslim scientists in the Middle East and North Africa).