Quotes About Knowledge

Aldous Huxley

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception

Experience teaches only the teachable

It isn't only art that's incompatible with happiness; it's also science.

Çünkü zaten iÅŸlerini zekice yapacaklarsa genel bir fikirleri olmak zorundayd?, ancak toplumun iyi ve mutlu üyeleri olacaklarsa ne kadar az bilirlerse o kadar iyi olurdu.

Until all teachers are geniuses and enthusiasts, nobody will learn anything, except what they teach themselves.

Ä°lgisiz bilgi ve istenmemiÅŸ tavsiye madeniydi.

Lenina uykuda öÄŸretilmiÅŸ parlak bilgeliÄŸini . . .

Unitive knowledge of God is possible only to those who 'have ceased to cherish opinions' even opinions that are as true as it is possible for verbalized abstractions to be.

W]ords are not the same as things and [...] a knowledge of words about facts is in no sense equivalent to a direct and immediate apprehension of the facts themselves.

Love is a mode of knowledge, and when the love is sufficiently disinterested and sufficiently intense, the knowledge becomes unitive knowledge and so takes on the quality of infallibility.

C]harity [...], unlike the lower forms of love, [...] is not an emotion. It begins as an act of the will and is consummated as a purely spiritual awareness, a unitive love-knowledge of the essence of its object.

The choice of self-abandonment in suffering makes possible the reception of grace - grace on the spiritual level, in the form of an accession of the love and knowledge of God, and grace in the mental and physiological levels, in the form of a diminution of fear, self-concern and even of pain.

Wer zu lesen versteht, besitzt den Schlüssel zu großen Taten, zu unerträumten Möglichkeiten.

In other words, the highest form of the love of God is an immediate spiritual intuition, by which 'knower, known and knowledge are made one.

The proper study of mankind is books. –

There are things known and things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.

Every discovery in pure science is potentially subversive; even science must sometimes be treated as a possible enemy. Yes, even science.

We can only love what we know, and we can never know completely what we do not love

Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You can't consume much if you sit still and read books.

sententiously.

If you want nature to treat you well, you must treat nature well. If you start destroying nature, nature will destroy you, and this basic moral precept is fundamental in our present knowledge of ecology and conservation. What we know now about ecology points to the fact that nature exists in the most delicate balance, and that anything which tends to upset the balance will produce consequences of the most unexpected character and often of the most disastrous character.

The function of the brain and nervous system is to protect us from being overwhelmed and confused by this mass of largely useless and irrelevant knowledge, by shutting out most of what we should otherwise perceive or remember at any moment, and leaving only that very small and special selection which is likely to be practically useful.

Lo que los dos hombres tenían en común era el conocimiento de que eran individuos.