Quotes About Knowledge

Leowin: Don't worry Luthiel. 'Truth's existence never depended upon belief.

the proper self-knowledge and self-love of every created thing is ipso facto a participation in the knowledge and love of God. The entire universe moves by desire for the Highest Good simply because every part of it loves what God loves - namely, its own being.

The world has taken a five-thousand-year bath in wisdom and is just as grimy as ever.

The proper self-knowledge and self-love of every created thing is ipso facto a participation in the knowledge and love of God. The entire universe moves by desire for the Highest Good simply because every part of it loves what God loves - namely, its own unique being. The stones on the beach, the grass in the field, the rabbits in the woods, and the stars in the sky all move toward him by the most dependable of all motions: their own desire to know and love themselves.

The skeptic is never for real. There he stands, cocktail in hand, left arm draped languorously on one end of the mantelpiece, telling you that he can't be sure of anything, not even of his own existence. I'll give you my secret method of demolishing universal skepticism in four words. Whisper to him: 'Your fly is open.' If he thinks knowledge is so all-fired impossible, why does he always look?

Young warriors are always eager for battle. Old warriors know better.

You have all the time in the world when you know what you are doing.

Vos creéis saberlo todo. Merlín se echó a reír: ?Al revés. Sé que no sé nada. El Caballero miró a Merlín con recelo. Sospechaba que el mago le estaba tendiendo una trampa: ?¿Cómo podéis decir que no sabéis nada, siendo como sois tan sabio? ?Eso es lo que me hace sabio ?respondió Merlín?. Saber «nada» significa no tener que demostrar que sé «algo».

Si sé que no tengo «algo», no tengo que poseerlo. Y si no poseo nada, puedo tenerlo «todo». Enseguida, otro pensamiento sacudió al Caballero: ?Saber que no poseo nada significa no tener nada que defender... y saber que no sé nada significa que no tengo que demostrar nada. ¿Estoy en lo cierto?

Cómo llegasteis a ser tan sabio? ?Admitiendo que no sé nada ?contestó Merlín. ?No lo entiendo ?dijo el Caballero. ?Cuando creemos que lo sabemos todo, no nos queda lugar para aprender nada más. Pero si sabemos que no sabemos nada, tenemos espacio para aprenderlo todo ?le explicó Merlín.

La única lección que nos enseña la historia es que nunca aprendemos de ella.1

It is not that you know nothing about war, young man. It is that you have learnt one thing. And war is many things.

If the creative process is so powerful, it would be natural to wonder why many artists have difficulties in their lives. It is because they do not know what they know.

All thought is a feat of association; having what's in front of you bring up something in your mind that you almost didn't know you knew.

Courage is the human virtue that counts most--courage to act on limited knowledge and insufficient evidence. That's all any of us have

I go to school the youth to learn the future.

We dance in a circle and suppose, while the secret sits in the middle and knows.

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

It wasn't in books. It wasn't in a church. What I needed to know was out there in the world.

It's a tough business if you don't know what you're doing. But it can be extremely lucrative and very rewarding when you learn the ropes.

The market, like the Lord, helps those who help themselves," Buffett says. "But unlike the Lord, the market does not forgive those who know not what they do.

It is perfectly delightful to take advantage of the conscientious labors of those who go through and through volume after volume, divide with infinite patience the gold from the dross, and present us with the pure and shining coin. Such men may be likened to bees who save us numberless journeys by giving us the fruit of their own.

If the people were a little more ignorant, astrology would flourish...

Reason, Observation, and Experience — the Holy Trinity of Science.