Quotes About Knowledge

Fullness of knowledge always means some understanding of the depths of our ignorance and that is always conducive to humility and reverence.

We don't know a tenth of what there is to know," Mr. Pendergast said. "Why we don't even know a sixth.

Dreams are part of our human survival kit, part of what has kept us going, and evolving on this planet. Across history most people have valued dreaming for two reasons beyond all others: because dreams enable us to see into the possible future, and because they put us in touch with sources of knowledge and wisdom beyond the ordinary mind.

Everybody has his own revelations, but the mass of the totality has never been revealed to anybody.

Bruce, this is Tovah, who absolutely isn't from the Israeli intelligence service.' Tovah smiled and shrugged innocently. 'I barely even know where Israel is.

The secret of a good librarian is that he never reads anything more of the literature in his charge than the title and the table of contents. Anyone who lets himself go and starts reading a book is lost as a librarian...He's bound to lose perspective.

True' and 'false' are the evasions of people who never want to arrive at a decision. Truth is something without end.

Even in his greatest dedication to science he had never managed to forget that people's goodness and beauty come from what they believe, not from what they know.

Knowledge may be power, but the reverse is not necessarily true.

Once upon a time, not so very long ago, men thought that the earth was flat, and that where earth and heaven met, the world ended. Yet when they finally set sail for that tremendous place, they sailed right through it, and found themselves back again where they had started from. It taught them only that the earth was round. It might have taught them more.

We know so little", I said, "and there's so much to know. We live by taste and touch; we see only what is under our noses. There are solar systems up there above us, greater than our own; and whole universes in a drop of water. And time stretches out endlessly on every side. This earth, this ocean, this little moment of living, has no meaning by itself. . . Yesterday is just as true as today; only we forget.

For professionals who use massage in their work, and especially for developing their leadership, historical literacy is imperative.

Only the refusal to listen guarantees one against being ensnared by the truth.

Fortified by our new knowledge that electricity controlled growth in bone, we returned instead to the nerves, taking a closer look at how their currents stimulated regrowth.

All worthwhilemedical research and every medicine man's intuition is part of the samequest for knowledge of the same elusive healing energy.

Finding and knowing, rather than absorbing dictums, is what "deeper understanding" is. It is a conscious and direct perception of the unity of life, a removal of the mind's internal barriers to direct understanding and knowledge, and "seeing" truth on another level.

This landmark book shines new light on things we thought we understood. —Charles Swencionis

What can we know? How we should act? What might we hope for?

The end of man is knowledge but there's one thing he can't know. He can't know whether knowledge will save him or kill him. He will be killed, all right, but he can't know whether he is killed because of the knowledge which he has got or because of the knowledge which he hasn't got and which if he had it would save him.

The lack of a sense of history is the damnation of the modern world.

If nothing else, a house is a place to keep books in.

But to worship at the altar of "just read" fails to see reading for what it actually is: a complex and nuanced interplay of decoding, vocabulary, subject matter, and contextual knowledge. Well-intended but misguided teachers and administrators have imposed a kind of illiteracy on low-income children of color by focusing their attention relentlessly in the mirror, instead of out the window. Reading comprehension is not a skill you teach but a condition you create.

Discussion is an exchange of knowledge an argument an exchange of ignorance.

Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.