Quotes About Knowledge

Knowledge has organizing power inherent in it. It is simply enough to know, to be aware of the principles;

Ego-based power will only last as long as those things last. As soon as the title, the job, the money go away, so does the power. Self-power, on the other hand, is permanent, because it is based on the knowledge of the Self.

A man born blind from birth will never know the meaning of darkness because he has never experienced light.

With the knowledge and practice of spiritual law, we put ourselves in harmony with nature and create with carefreeness, joy, and love.

There is no substitute for the creative inspiration, knowledge, and stability that come from knowing how to contact your core of inner silence.

Life is too short to learn everything by experience," Mattis told reporters after the event. "In these books we can find situations that are similar to what we confront today. ... We can study how women and men in the past have dealt with situations successfully or unsuccessfully."

Cate stared intently at the land, as if trying to wring some knowledge from it, as if she were seeing it for the first time, although in fact it couldn't have been more familiar to her, the type of landscape against which she still judge all others.

Creators of history always play with our impotence and our ignorance.

He had an answer to almost everything and he retired at an early age.

Omnipotence and omniscience are the end of power and knowledge.

Since there is no real silence, silence will contain all the sounds, all the words, all the languages, all knowledge, all memory.

Tell me something only you know and make a new friend.

Total knowledge is annihilation of the desire to see, to touch, to feel the world sensed only through senses and immune to the knowledge without feeling.

We don't know anything about silent sages, buried knowledge, the eye of the mute poet, serene seers, yet how many talkative destroyers, prophets and ideologues, teachers and beautifiers there are on the other side.

You don't know anything, but I know even less.

The more you know, the more you can make fun of.

they will later reveal truth after history has digested the lie.

In truth we know nothing, for truth lies in the depth.

Men should strive to think much and know little.

The Truth is in the Depths

Our professional competence and pride should rest not alone in our possession of knowledge but as well in our ability to communicate it. Of course we shall carry on our research, and of course we shall applaud the colleague who 'produces,' but we shan't be happy if he offers that as a substitute for inspiring young people with a desire for knowledge, a sense of taste, and a regard for virtue.

The truth is that our enjoyments and our evaluations, like our trades, are learned; intensive knowledge, as well as extensive, is acquired. We learn how to value possessions as well as how to make them; our passions, our disgusts, and our ambitions are learned. Just as we have evolved ways of transmuting physical elements from one to another, so we have evolved ways of transmuting experience into meaning.

I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it.

There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge. . . observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination.