Quotes About Knowledge

Buscaba el Paraíso porque ignoraba que era un lugar inexistente.

Es excelente ser viejo. Es la mejor edad, es la época en que el entendimiento ve con más claridad.»

Tudo o que aprendemos nas nossas vidas breves não é mais do que uma ninharia insubstancial arrancada à enormidade do que nunca saberemos.

Nadie puede decir si habríamos insistido, dada la pobreza de nuestros medios de investigación, si hubiésemos conocido la verdadera proporción de lo que estábamos buscando»

Siempre me ha dado pena la gente que no lee, y no ya porque sean más incultos, que sin duda lo son; o porque estén más indefensos y sean menos libres, que también, sino, sobre todo, porque viven menos.

Los sacerdotes hicimos un pasado a nuestra medida y reescribimos la Historia del mundo. Conscientes de que el saber es la llave del poder, nos apropiamos de los conocimientos existentes. Los adelantos técnicos, los logros de nuestros antepasados, pasaron a ser patrimonio secreto y privado.

Now knowledge became the high road to control, and for women the pen had one major advantage over the sword; it fitted neatly into a female fist of any size, age, creed or country in the word.

A man cannot be blamed for ignorance if he has never been taught.

Gustav waited. He wondered whether he wanted to know the thing she was about to tell him, or whether it wasn't better for certain knowledge to remain hidden, so that the mind could conjure its own stories from out of the past, stories it could bear to live with, stories which, in time, took on their own reality and seemed to become true.

Ho notato questo negli esseri umani; l'essere a conoscenza di un segreto li fa sorridere. E' il sorriso del potere.

The walls of books around him, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present world and its disasters.

Never ask a question if you don't know the answer. — Rhett

Never ask a question if you don't know the answer.

Uncle Claudie Windham's life has weathered to the color of wisdom.

Great, Yoda wrote the directions.

The possibility of acquiring the art of writing may be withheld from someone through poverty, or through the conditions of civilization into which he is born; but for the attainment of knowledge and proficiency in the higher worlds, there is no obstacle for those who earnestly seek them.

He who is unwilling to trust to the power of thinking cannot, in fact, enlighten himself regarding higher spiritual facts.

These are two poles in the soul's life: loss of self in what one is contemplating and self-willed assertion of what lies within the self. These are two great opposites. If you wish to attain real knowledge and permeate yourself with wisdom, self-will is lethal. In ordinary life, we know self-will only as prejudice—and prejudices always destroy higher insight.

Duchovní vÄ›da v?bec neÃ…â"¢íká: ?lovÄ›k má svou organizací dané meze poznání, nýbrž praví: pro ?lovÄ›ka existují ty svÄ›ty, pro n?ž má orgány vnímání. HovoÃ…â"¢í jen o prostÃ…â"¢edcích, jak do?asné hranice rozÅ¡íÃ…â"¢it.

Chápání v pojmech by mÄ›lo být v jistém smÄ›ru ?erpáno z nashromáždÄ›ného pokladu pamÄ›ti. ÄŒím více ví mladý ?lovÄ›k z pamÄ›ti pÃ…â"¢ed pojmovým chápáním, tím lépe... Není jistÄ› tÃ…â"¢eba výslovnÄ› dovozovat, že toto platí jen pro vÄ›k, o nÄ›mž je tu Ã…â"¢e? (7 až 14 let), nikoli pro pozdÄ›jÅ¡í dobu.

When young lips have drunk deep of the bitter waters of hate, suspicion and despair, all the love in the world will not wholly take away that knowledge. Though it may turn darkened eyes for a while to the light, and teach faith where no faith was.

How can you do anything until you have seen everything,or as much as you can?

Fiction is Truth's elder sister. Obviously. No one in the world knew what truth was till some one had told a story.

Better he should be bruised from head to foot by me who love him than that he should come to harm through ignorance