Quotes About Knowledge

pride. If there's too much "I know," it will lead to illusion and ignorance. Isn't that ironic? Jesus says, "The person who says 'I know,' is precisely the blind one" (John 9:41).

Eric Hoffer, the street philosopher, put it this way: "In times of great change [which is always], learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped for a world that no longer exists.

God was consistent in working through one man to reveal himself everywhere, as well as through the other parts of His creation, so that nothing was left devoid of his Divinity and his self-knowledge…so that 'the whole universe was filled with the knowledge of the Lord as the waters fill the sea.

he had to comfort himself with the firm conviction that most of what he objected to in Mohawk and the world at large was not the result of people reading the wrong books, but rather of not reading any at all.

aware, as always, that the truth isn't much of substitute for a good answer.

Knowing and knowing what to do about it were two different things.

She gave him a smile in which hope and knowledge were going at it, bare-knuckled, equally and eternally matched.

La verdad no sirve como sustituto de una buena respuesta.

Whereas some people's attitude suggested that perhaps they knew something you didn't, Mrs. Whiting's implied that she knew everything you didn't. She alone had been paying attention, so it was her duty to bring you at least partially up to speed.

God) seemed to know everything that was in her heart and to understand that nothing dwelt there that wasn't absolutely necessary to her survival.

people confuse power with will because so few of them have the foggiest idea what they want. Absent any knowledge, will remains impotent. A limp dick, as it were." She regarded him, eyebrow arched. "The lucky few who happen actually to know what they want are said to have will-power.

There was something about educated people that made it impossible for them to admit when they didn't understand something.

Let us not forget Colby and the liberating effects of higher education. Though it doesn't liberate everyone, does it?

This would be especially true of overeducated people, who are capable of thinking past the immediate, of becoming obsessed by the remote.

I began to develop a firm conviction that most efforts to teach people things were wasted. All they needed was to go off some place quiet and read.

I began to develop a firm conviction that most efforts to teach people things were wasted. All they needed was to go off some place quiet and read. Around

you can't understand how wine is made simply by drinking lots of it.

The whole conduct of a Christian is nothing else but knowledge reduced to will, affection and practice.

You are old, Father William—

And if this disenchanted vision were elevated to the status of being the only legitimate vision of the nature of the cosmos upheld by an entire civilization, what an incalculable loss, an impoverishment, a tragic deformation, a grief, would ultimately be suffered by both knower and known.

education is a process through which truth is not introduced into the mind from without, but is "led out" from within.

Astrology," he stated, "represents the sum of all the psychological knowledge of antiquity.

a knowledge of how to live was a knowledge of how to die.

They argued about the weather, sports, sex, war, race, politics, and religion; neither of them knew the subjects they debated, but it seemed that the less they knew the better the could argue.