Quotes About Knowledge

Lorsqu'on veut apprendre quelque chose, on ne prend pas un livre. On parle avec quelqu'un. Je ne crois pas aux livres.

Is love an art? Then it requires knowledge and effort.

We may know ourselves, and yet even with all the efforts we make, we do not know ourselves. We know our fellowman, and yet we do not know him, because we are not a thing, and our fellowman is not a thing. The further we reach into the depths of our being, on someone else's being, the more the goal of knowledge eludes us.

Care and responsibility are constituent elements of love, but without respect for and knowledge of the beloved person, love deteriorates into domination and possessiveness.

The pathetic superstition prevails that by knowing more and more facts one arrives at knowledge of reality. Hundreds of scattered and unrelated facts are dumped into the heads of students; their time and energy are taken up by learning more and more facts so that there is little left for thinking. To be sure, thinking without a knowledge of facts remains empty and fictitious; but "information" alone can be just as much of an obstacle to thinking as the lack of it.

Beyond the element of giving, the active characteristic of love becomes evident in the fact that it always implies certain basic elements, common to all forms of love. These are care, responsability, respect and knowledge

The only way of full knowledge lies in the act of love; this act transcends thought, it transcends words. It is the daring plunge into the experience of union.

Man can only know the nagation, never the position of ultimate reality.

To know and yet [think] we do not know is the highest [attainment]; not to know [and yet think] we do know is a disease.

The more knowledge is inherent in a thing, the greater the love

A literary academic can no more pass a bookstore than an alcoholic can pass a bar.

My task is teach my students how to ask the right questions.

It is only to be expected that those who lack curiosity about the wider world would find those who possess that particular characteristic uninteresting.

But that reflects a basic misunderstanding of how science proceeds and why the borders of scientific knowledge are not drawn along geographical lines.

An epistemic methodology that sees the pursuit of knowledge as entirely congruent with the search for power is a great deal more cunning than wise. It can needlessly undermine the value of knowledge in satisfying curiosity and interest; it significantly weakens one of the profound characteristics of human beings.

It is the True. It is the Self, and thou, O Svetaketu, art it... And just in case thou art not all that, we will fix it with a bit of cleverness in reconstructing reality!

All men should give books instead of flowers.

I think any time you have too much education in one certain field, that can sometimes play against you.

My father comes from a generation of film that actors my age don't even know about, which is really sad.

Historian: A broad-gauge gossip.

Advice, n. the smallest current coin.

The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge.

Faith Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.

There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don't know.