Quotes About Knowledge

You learn from a mentor; it is worldly knowledge; I attain that from spirituality; it is universal knowledge.

You may hold all the data, info, and knowledge, but without consent, you gain nothing, even having the power, you are powerless. Everything depends on the consent

Corpses may not speak, but they still carry a wealth of information.

A wise man who cultivates wisdom may sometimes drown in it.

The written word for the trouble is two women beneath one rooftree, and I greatly fear that the wise man who invented writing had knowledge that cost him dear. Perhaps he, too, had a daughter-in-law.

why shouldn't something I have always known be the very best there is.

I'm from a family of readers. Not of great books, but of great reading

Listen, I have been educated. I have learned about Western Civilization. Do you know What the message of Western Civilization is? I am alone.

Nice to know a few things aren't in the government's files,' he said, opening the front door and stepping out ahead of her. The human courtesy of waiting for the woman to go through a door was all flourish, no sense. If any danger waited on the other side of a door, he'd rather meet it himself, not send her into it.

Advice is like shit. Don't pass it around and don't take someone else's." -Cynna

Advice is like shit. Don't pass it around and don't take someone else's.

science, as good as it is with how, isn't equipped to deal with why.

As by knowing one tool of iron, dear one, we come to know all things made out of iron: that they differ only in name and form, while the stuff of which all are made is iron- so through that spiritual wisdom, dear one, we come to know that ll of life is one.

There is a tale of a man who found on the road a large stone bearing the words, "Under me lies a great truth." The man strained to turn the stone over and finally succeeded. On the bottom was written, "Why do you want a new truth when you do not practice what you already know?

One who has merely heard of fire has ajnana, ignorance. One who has seen fire has jnana. But one who has actually built a fire and cooked on it has vijnana.

Collect as precious pearls the words of the wise and virtuous.

We do not learn from experience … we learn from reflecting on experience." —John Dewey

On one level, it's easy to think that learning professionals are in the business of delivering learning content. But from a cognitive perspective, we're really in the business of helping learners build schemata that they can then use to perform their jobs.

Enlighten your life with history.

Who is the learner and what is his or her relationship to knowledge and learning? Is he or she basically good or evil (or both)? Passive or active in learning? Capable of choice, or has life already been determined somehow? Motivated internally or externally? An unmarked slate or having unrealized potential? These questions are answered every day in every classroom, daycare center, or basketball court—answered by the way children are viewed and treated by adults.

It's amazing how right you can be about a person you don't know; it's only the people you do know who confuse you.

This greater awareness of the subtle tends to make you more intuitive, which simply means picking up and working through information in a semiconscious or unconscious way. The result is that you often "just know" without realizing how.

Libraries are forever.

As Neil Gaiman said, "Google can bring you back a hundred thousand answers; a librarian can bring you back the right one.