Quotes About Knowledge

n Mens het letterkunde in jou lewe nodig, want daarsonder gaan jy agteruit.

It reaffirmed my long-held belief that education was the enemy of prejudice. These were men and women of science, and science had no room for racism.

Like all Xhosa children, I acquired knowledge mainly through observation. We were meant to learn through imitation and emulation, not through questions. When I first visited the homes of whites, I was often dumbfounded by the number and nature of questions that children asked of their parents—and their parents' unfailing willingness to answer them. In my household, questions were considered a nuisance; adults imparted information as they considered necessary.

L'éducation est l'arme la plus puissante que vous pouvez utiliser pour changer le monde. »

But I had little knowledge of Marxism, and in political discussions with my communist friends I found myself handicapped by my ignorance of their philosophy. I decided to remedy this.

A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don't have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed.

Only mass education, he used to say, would free my people, arguing that an educated man could not be oppressed because he could think for himself.

But in Johannesburg I found that many of the most outstanding leaders had never been to university at all.

to truly lead one's people one must also truly know them.

Sólo la educación de las masas, puede liberar al pueblo. Un hombre educado no puede ser oprimido, si es capaz de pensar por sí mismo.

It reminded me once again that truly to lead one's people one must also truly know them.

tenían ese gran respeto por la educación que tan a menudo muestran quienes carecen de ella...

For it is better to drink a wholesome draught of truth from the humble vessel, than poison mixed with honey from a golden goblet.

One of the reasons humans tended toward insanity was the weight of fear they carried. The blessings of storytelling, the handing down of knowledge and warnings, had a flip side. People carried the collective fears of their history, the biases of those long dead, the paranoias of other ages. Anna flashed

Only humans, cursed with the knowledge of their own mortality and that of those whom they loved, were truly alone; each trapped in an ivory tower of skull and bone peeking out through the windows of the soul.     THE

To name a thing was to own, control and understand it.

You know a thing mentally by looking at it from the outside, by comparing it with other things, by analyzing it and defining it; whereas you can know a thing spiritually only by becoming it. You must be the thing itself and not merely talk about it or look at it.

En lugar de desarrollar la imaginación del hombre, nuestro sistema educativo muchas veces lo sofoca tratando poner en la mente del hombre la sabiduría que busca. Le obliga a memorizar una cantidad de libros que, muy pronto, son refutados por libros posteriores. La educación no se logra poniendo algo en el hombre; su propósito es sacar del hombre la sabiduría que está latente en él.

However, the understanding of the causes of your experience, and the knowledge that you are the sole creator of the contents of your life, both good and bad, not only make you a much keener observer of all phenomena, but through the awareness of the power of your consciousness, intensify your appreciation of the richness and grandeur of life.

May I tell you: before you entered this world of tribulation and death you were God the Father, but you did not know it. You had to come into this experience in order to know that the world is yours and all within it.

The subconscious is what a man is. The conscious is what a man knows.

The subconscious is that in which everything is known, in which everything is possible, to which everything goes, from which everything comes, which belongs to all, to which all have access.

Man feels so secure in his man-made laws, opinions and beliefs that he invests them with an authority they do not possess. Satisfied that his knowledge is all, he remains unaware that all outward appearances are but states of mind externalised. When he realises that the consciousness of a quality externalises that quality without the aid of any other or many values and establishes the one true value, his own consciousness.

Imagination is more important than knowledge." ALBERT EINSTEIN, On Science