Quotes About Knowledge

Pluto (the Greek god Hades) is associated with divination because it symbolizes the revelation of secret or occult knowledge.

Senior came to learn that the Catholic Church respected the integrity and the goodness of the created order, and that her teachers would say, with Saint Thomas Aquinas, that the grace of God perfects nature rather than supplants it, and that all of our knowledge, including what we know about God himself, comes to us first through the senses.

There is nothing more blinding than having seen the light, and nothing more tiresome than sharing it.

Wisdom doesn't come only from the experience you have had, but from the experience you have chosen not to have.

We are all born wise. Unfortunately, we all don't die that way.

We are not born with a need for knowledge, but a hunger for it. Eve bit the apple and it has been gluttony ever since.

When a scientist splits an atom, the event is locked away like a jewel in a castle, funneling down to the public through a myriad of institutions. But when an artist stumbles upon the key to unleashing universal evil, the forbidden fruit of his painstaking labor is packaged and sold at every corner store from Bangor to Bangkok. I'm still unsure whether this is the result of a lack of respect for artists (compared to scientists) or the moral corruption of artists (compared to scientists).

Those who take thinking seriously have a serious problem—ignorance and arrogance commingle.

Philosophy itself should not be merely "the pursuit of the knowledge of the truth" but should offer a practical guide for ordinary people in their everyday lives.

This idea was carried forward by the British philosopher C.D. Broad who wrote: The function of the brain and the nervous system is to protect us from being overwhelmed and confused by this mass of largely useless and otherwise irrelevant knowledge, by shutting out most of what we should otherwise perceive.

I get a warm feeling among my books.

Books do furnish a room.

Literature illuminates life only for those to whom books are a necessity.

One passes through the world knowing few, if any, of the important things about even the people with whom one has been from time to time in the closest intimacy.

You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough You must take action.

America has an internal enemy more deadly than any terrorist -- it's called ignorance.

It is terribly important to appreciate that some things remain obscure to the bitter end.

If a man knows more than others, he becomes lonely,

I feel it is the duty of one who goes his own way to inform society of what he finds on his voyage of discovery,' he wrote.

I feel it is the duty of one who goes his own way to inform society of what he finds on his voyage of discovery" ~ Carl Gustave Jung

This habit of reading, I make bold to tell you, is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures. It lasts when all other pleasures fade. It will support you when all other recreations are gone. It will last until your death. It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live.

One can only pour out of a jug that which is in it.

In general, if you can't imagine how anyone could hold the view you are attacking, you probably just don't understand it yet.

Note that an informed source need not fit our general stereotype of an "authority"—and a person who fits our stereotype of an authority may not even be an informed source.