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Quotes About Knowledge

I take the position that true faith is not a supersessional knowledge. It cannot discard the intellect.
~ E.L. Doctorow
Orthodox devotions that do not let in the light of modern knowledge are no more than a form of ancestor worship.
~ E.L. Doctorow
What we call fiction is the ancient way of knowing, the total discourse that antedates all the special vocabularies... Fiction is democratic, it reasserts the authority of the single mind to make and remake the world.
~ E.L. Doctorow
Writing teachers invariably tell students, write about what you know. That's, of course, what you have to do, but on the other hand, how do you know what you know until you've written it? Writing is knowing... I've had very little experience in my life. In fact, I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.
~ E.L. Doctorow
The experience of experience is untransmittable.
~ E.L. Doctorow
19. I wrote in my notebook that even if all the possible scientific questions are answered, our problem is still not touched at all.
~ E.L. Doctorow
Going to school- picking an apple Getting an education- eating it
~ E.L. Konigsburg
Finding a secret can make everything else unimportant, you know.
~ E.L. Konigsburg
Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
~ E.M. Forster
Life is knowledge, livin it is Succes!
~ Ebelsain Villegas
The most common ego identifications have to do with possessions, the work you do, social status and recognition, knowledge and education, physical appearance, special abilities, relationships, person and family history, belief systems, and often nationalistic, racial, religious, and other collective identifications. None of these is you.
~ Eckhart Tolle
If increased meta-knowledge is not counter-balanced by a corresponding growth in consciousness then the likelihood of psycho-spiritual dysfunction is great.
~ Eckhart Tolle
The reason why you don't put your hand in the fire is not because of fear, it's because you know you'll get burned. You don't need fear to avoid unnecessary danger.
~ Eckhart Tolle
You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free
~ Eckhart Tolle
dimension comes a different kind of knowing
~ Eckhart Tolle
if mental development and increased knowledge are not counterbalanced by a corresponding growth in consciousness, the potential for unhappiness and disaster is very great.
~ Eckhart Tolle
La mente no puede conocer al árbol. Sólo puede conocer hechos o información sobre el árbol. Mi mente no puede conocerlo a usted, sólo etiquetas, juicios, hechos y opiniones sobre usted. Sólo el Ser conoce directamente.
~ Eckhart Tolle
Una palabra no es más que un medio para llegar a un fin. Es una abstracción. De forma parecida a un poste indicador, señala algo más allá de sí misma. La palabra miel no es miel. Usted puede estudiar y hablar de la miel todo el tiempo que quiera, pero no la conocerá realmente hasta que la pruebe. Después
~ Eckhart Tolle
There is a place for mind and mind knowledge. It is in the practical realm of day-to-day living. However, when it takes over all aspects of your life, including your relationships with other human beings and with nature, it becomes a monstrous parasite that, unchecked, may well end up killing all life on the planet and finally itself by
~ Eckhart Tolle
Todo lo que puedo hacer es recordarle lo que ha olvidado. El conocimiento vivo, antiguo y sin embargo siempre nuevo, se activa entonces y se libera desde el interior de todas las células de su cuerpo.
~ Eckhart Tolle
The most common ego identifications have to do with possessions, the work you do, social status and recognition, knowledge and education, physical appearance, special abilities, relationships, personal and family history, belief systems, and often also political, nationalistic, racial, religious, and other collective identifications.
~ Eckhart Tolle
How can a single human cell measuring 1/1,000 of an inch in diameter contain instructions within its DNA that would fill 1,000 books of 600 pages each? The more we learn about the workings of the body, the more we realize just how vast is the intelligence at work within it and how little we know.
~ Eckhart Tolle
El mundo está lleno de libros preciosos que nadie lee" The world is full of precious books that nobody reads
~ Eco Umberto
Most people are widely read. I'm thinly read. I've read *** all, and I'm very proud of it.
~ Eddie Izzard