Quotes About Knowledge

One may at least surmise that this esoteric teaching had a close and direct connection with wisdom, and that it did not only appeal to reason or to logic, as is the case with philosophy, which for this reason has been called rational knowledge - the philosophers of antiquity maintained that rational knowledge, that is, philosophy, is not the highest degree of knowledge, is not wisdom.

Orice cunoa?tere este esen?ialmente identificare cu obiectul s?u.

His (Guénon's) motto was vincit omnia veritas, "Truth conquers all", but implicitly his motto was "Seek and ye shall find, knock and it shall be opened unto you". Implicit in his writings is the certainty that they will come providentially to those who are qualified to receive his message and they will impel them to seek and therefore to find a way.

mieux vaut, pour la renommée d'un philosophe, inventer une erreur nouvelle que de redire une vérité qui a déjà été exprimée par d'autres.

Les sciences telles que les comprennent les modernes, c'est-à-dire les sciences profanes, ne supposent effectivement, d'une façon générale, rien de plus ni d'autre qu'une élaboration rationnelle de données sensibles ; ce sont donc elles qui sont véritablement "empiriques" quant à leur point de départ ; et l'on pourrait dire que les modernes confondent indûment ce point de départ de leurs sciences avec l'origine de toute science.

The same can be said of the true science of num- bers, for the principial numbers, though they must be referred to as numbers by analogy, are situated relatively to our world at the pole opposite to that at which are situated the numbers of common arithmetic; the latter are the only numbers the moderns know, and on them they turn all their attention, thus taking the shadow for the reality, like the prisoners in Plato's cave.

On dit même que le diable, quand il veut, est fort bon théologien ; il est vrai, pourtaint qu'il ne peut s'empêcher de laisse échapper toujours quelque sottise, qui est comme sa signature

Il faut bien comprendre qu'il ne s'agit point, dans notre pensée, de déclarer illégitime en elle-même une connaissance quelconque, même inférieure ; ce qui est illégitime, c'est seulement l'abus qui se produit lorsque des choses de ce genre absorbent toute l'activité humaine, ainsi que nous le voyons actuellement.

Pour répondre à cette question, nous rappellerons que l'initiation est essentiellement une transmission, et nous ajouterons que ceci peut s'entendre en deux sens différents : d'une part, transmission d'une influence spirituelle, et, d'autre part, transmission d'un enseignement traditionnel. [...]

Indeed the study of the Easy as we know it today, if undertaken in a really direct way, would be of great assistance towards the understanding of all Antiquity, on account of that very quality of fixity and stability.

In der Tat ist Foucaults Werk ein verwirrendes Labyrinth, in welchem der Autor, der keiner sein will und in Wahrheit nie das ist, was er zunächst zu sein scheint, umherirrt und sich verliert.

Stop thinking that you have to know everything to understand it.

Some years ago I was struck by the large number of falsehoods that I had accepted as true in my childhood, and by the highly doubtful nature of the whole edifice that I had subsequently based on them. I realized that it was necessary, once in the course of my life, to demolish everything completely and start again right from the foundations if I wanted to establish anything at all in the sciences that was stable and likely to last.

Whatever I have up till now accepted as most true and assured I have gotten either from the senses or through the senses. But from time to time I have found that the senses deceive, and it is prudent never to trust completely those who have deceived us even once.

Doubt is the origin of wisdom

There is nothing more ancient than the truth.

For I found myself embarrassed with so many doubts and errors that it seemed to me that the effort to instruct myself had no effect other than the increasing discovery of my own ignorance

Dubium sapientiae initium. ( Doubt is the origin of wisdom .)

I don't know much about sports.

No voice teacher can be all things to all people. You have to gain information from whatever sources you can. You have to listen.

it is essential that young singers familiarize themselves with the business aspects of their work.

About the body I know very little, though I am steadily trying to improve myself, in the way animals improve themselves by licking.

IN OUR WORLD, we need a clear awareness of the interdependent nature of nations, of humans and animals, and of humans, animals and the world. Everthing is of interdependent nature. I feel that many problems, especially man-made problems, are due to a lack of knowledge about this interdependent nature.

MAY 27 CRUCIAL TO THE hermeneutical approach is the Mahayana principle of the four reliances. These are: (i) reliance on the teaching, not on the teacher; (ii) reliance on the meaning, not on the words that express it; (iii) reliance on the definitive meaning, not on the provisional meaning; and (iv) reliance on the transcendent wisdom of deep experience, not on mere knowledge.