Quotes About Knowledge

Education is paradoxical in that it is largely composed of things that cannot be learned

...to learn and not to do is really not to learn. To know and not to do is really not to know.

Confidence comes from seeing so many sides, angles, views, and tangents. Because when you do select an approach or direction, you are doing so with better/ more complete information.

Natural things are glorious, and to know them is glorious.

Thoroughly to teach another is the best way to learn for yourself.

More Bibles are bought and fewer read than any other book.

Don't turn over the rocks if you don't want to see the pale creatures who live under them.

What you say should not just be truth now, but should be a proven truth tomorrow.

Will raised both eyebrows. 'Well, you learn a new thing everyday,' he said reflectively. 'In your case, that's no exaggeration,' Halt said, completely straight-faced.

Proverbs may be said to be the abridgment of wisdom.

Every death is like the burning of a library.

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that; for it is true we may give advice, but we cannot give conduct.

If you don't read, you will never be a filmmaker.

In this lifetime you can lose everything. Everything passes here. But you don't lose any spiritual knowledge that you have gained in this or any other lifetime. It is inside you.

Refuse to deny what you know but consent to how little that will always be, and, when the moment comes, the sky will open and the liberating intrusion will descend upon you.

No one really knows enough to be a pessimist.

Education is very admirable but let us not forget that anything worth knowing cannot be taught.

I may not have a degree, but I certainly got an education.

The smarter you are, the more you know, the less reason you have to trust or love or confide.

A truth that no one knows is still the truth.

Most new books are forgotten within a year, especially by those who borrow them.

Wise sayings are not only for ornament, but for action and business, having a point or edge, whereby knots in business are pierced and discovered.

Wisdom is something that seeks itself. The wiser you become the more you'd like to know.

You should be drawing awareness from a deeper part of your being. Your deeper mind has everything already. It knows everything already. It has all the answers.