Quotes About Knowledge

Words are deceptive. You think you understand something because it's explained to you and now you are under no obligation to do anything because you understand it.

All the billions of people who now inhabit our planet are putting a terrific strain on its aura, making it difficult, even for evolved people to become aware of their past-life knowledge and talents.

You can stay in the safe, secure oblivion and pain of ignorance, not knowing, and just die. You'll just die, like everyone else, and shuffle into another incarnation that won't be very different.

On your journey, remember there is no end. That is true knowledge. There is no final knowledge. There is no final enlightenment, that is a very finite, human way of seeing things.

We teach what we need to learn.

Ignorance is not an extension of time

In education the appetite does indeed grow with eating. I have never known anyone to abandon study because they knew too much.

I don't need faith. I have experience.

Knowledge is real knowledge only when it is acquired by the efforts of your intellect, not by memory

Wisdom comes with age, but keep it to yourself.

If we learned all we needed to know in kindergarten, it was promptly drummed out of us in first grade.

Knowledge can only be got in one way, the way of experience; there is no other way to know.

Read widely of others' experiences, even if it'd be more comfortable to snuggle back in the comforting cotton-wool of blissful ignorance.

The wise man is but a clever infant, spelling letters from a hieroglyphical prophetic book, the lexicon of which lies in eternity.

An expert knows the subject very well. A model teaches by showing instead of just telling.

I wanted to see what was going on in the world. I sometimes think I overwished.

There are so many people who have lived and died before you. You will never have a new problem; you're not going to ever have a new problem. Somebody wrote the answer down in a book somewhere.

Intelligence and genius

He's a novice - he should keep his opinions to Japanese football

You can cover a great deal of Countries in books.

Ordinary people don't know how much books can mean to someone who's cooped up.

Is this true or only clever?

When I'm hiring, I don't look for credentials, I look for knowledge.

We [the Moderns] are like dwarves perched on the shoulders of giants [the Ancients], and thus we are able to see more and farther than the latter.