Quotes About Knowledge

To learn is to receive, and then it is to give, and then it is to give again.

Intimacy is the only shield against insanity. Intimacy, not knowledge. Intimacy, not power.

Is it more important to understand than to obey? Is it more important to me to know than to believe?

Education makes you humble, it doesn't make you proud.

Debemos aceptar con humildad que haya millones de cosas que no entendemos todavía, pero esto no quiere decir que sólo por el hecho de no comprenderlas no existan o no sean realidades.

El conocimiento va muy bien -le dije- pero el conocimiento solo no va a sanar a nadie. Si no se usa.

Intento explicaros que el saber es útil, sin duda, pero que el conocimiento solo no ayudará a nadie. Si no utilizáis, además de la cabeza, vuestro corazón y vuestra alma, no ayudaréis a nadie.

When a proto-type—a new initiative—doesn't work, we face two alternatives: one is to bitch about reality and the other is to harvest the gift it just gave us, the knowledge of what has to be corrected.

You know before you know, of course. You are bending over the dryer, pulling out the still-warm sheets, and the knowledge walks up your backbone. You stare at the man you love and you are staring at nothing; he is gone before he is gone.

Frankly, I'm guessing that before getting to my house today, Shoshanna had thought the Hoover Dam was some kind of vacuum cleaner attachment.

The problem with the dead is that they don't keep secrets. Eventually they tell on themselves.

We cannot begin to define God's knowledge. We know, simply and profoundly, that nothing is hidden from Him or incomprehensible to Him.

When and how the most painful of situations is going to be resolved and redeemed is no mystery to God. Knowing this truth about God's complete knowledge really does help me accept the unacceptable in my life.

He who teaches the Bible is never a scholar; he is always a student.

True wisdom is marked by willingness to listen and a sense of knowing when to yield.

Because of God's knowledge, you and I are always understood.

The ability to discern truth comes from learning, growing, and understanding the Bible.

The Bible is the ultimate book of wisdom and advice.

Dear me, how I love a library.

She wanted to understand the world, and she made a habit of chasing down information to its last hiding place, as though the fate of nations were at stake in every instance.

Alma came to consider her library work as a kind of indoor gardening

She thought she knew much, but she knew nothing.

library is a beautiful old thing

If you really want to get to know someone, you have to divorce him.