Quotes About Knowledge

Stalin's opinion on the subject boiled down to this: "Education is a dangerous weapon, whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands, and at whom it is aimed.

Tennessee to places like Corinth, Nashville, and even Shiloh, which at that point he'd never heard of.

Mo?e jestem idiota, ale nie jestem g?upi.

Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.

If you cannot read all your books...fondle them---peer into them, let them fall open where they will, read from the first sentence that arrests the eye, set them back on the shelves with your own hands, arrange them on your own plan so that you at least know where they are. Let them be your friends; let them, at any rate, be your acquaintances.

We know ourselves only as far as we've been tested.

Spoonfeeding in the long run teaches you nothing but the shape of the spoon .

Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.

I'm old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.

Knowledge or religion means to be good and to do good, to worship God or to work for God without having the living presence of God.

This is the need of the church today. The church is not in great need of miracles, gifts, teachings, or knowledge. Today the church needs the ministry of Christ.

To merely search the Scriptures is to come to the tree of knowledge; to contact the Lord through the Word is to come to the tree of life.

The real humility and loveliness of a Christian must be Christ Himself. Our love toward others must be Christ. Our patience, our humility, our wisdom, our knowledge, and our insight must be Christ.

No other New Testament writer presents this matter in the way Paul does. This indicates that Paul had a great deal to teach other believers. But although Paul knew more and had more, he was not proud.

The will of God for us is that we know the all-inclusive Christ, experience Him, and live Him as our life. To know Christ in this way is to have the full knowledge of God's will.

Don't be fooled by your own wisdom

Rzecz prosta, im m?drzejszy czytelnik, tym i ksi??ka oka?e si? m?drzejsza; im za? czytelnik g?upszy i bardziej ja?owy, tym i ksi??ka b?dzie g?upsza.

Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth.

Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress truth.

The arrogant elimination of the Djaouts of our world must nerve us to pursue our own combative doctrine, namely: that peaceful cohabitation on this planet demands that while the upholders of any creed are free to adopt their own existential absolutes, the right of others to do the same is thereby rendered implicit and sacrosanct. Thus the creed of inquiry, of knowledge and exchange of ideas, must be upheld as an absolute, as ancient and eternal as any other.

Melody is the essence of music. I compare a good melodist to a fine racer, and counterpointists to hack post-horses; therefore be advised, let well alone and remember the old Italian proverb: Chi sa più, meno sa—Who knows most, knows least.

Our riches, being in our brains, die with us... Unless of course someone chops off our head, in which case, we won't need them anyway.

Truth is like the town whore. Everybody knows her, but nonetheless, it's embarrassing to meet her on the street.