Quotes About Knowledge

No fundo, o mal todo está nessa mania de ler, estudar, escrever; esse negócio de intelectual é sempre maroto. Por que não promover uma grande campanha nacional de analfabetização?

All of them had so much to offer us as far as, you know, knowledge in the music industry, and especially Randy and Paula because, you know, they've been artists.

The experienced physician, mechanic, or physiologist looking at a wound, an engine, a microscopic preparation, "sees" things the novice does not see. If both, experts and laymen, were asked to make exact copies of what they see, their drawings would be quite different.

The more perfect our means of direct experience, the more easily we are caught by the dangerous illusion that perceiving is tantamount to knowing and understanding.

Our experiences and ideas tend to be common but not deep, or deep but not common.

Johnny couldn't read ... for the simple reason that nobody ever showed him how.

Belief begins where science leaves off and ends where science begins.

The time has come to realize that supersensible knowledge has now to arise from the materialistic grave.

Where is the book in which the teacher can read about what teaching is? The children themselves are this book. We should not learn to teach out of any book other than the one lying open before us and consisting of the children themselves.

There slumber in every human being faculties by means of which he can acquire for himself a knowledge of higher worlds. Mystics, Gnostics, Theosophists — all speak of a world of soul and spirit which for them is just as real as the world we see with our physical eyes and touch with our physical hands.

All knowledge pursued merely for the enrichment of personal learning and the accumulation of personal treasure leads you away from the path; but all knowledge pursued for growth to ripeness within the process of human ennoblement and cosmic development brings you a step forward.

Today, we have knowledge of many, many things and the relations among human beings have multiplied ad infinitum. But we live in cities that are like deafening factories in awful Babels, with nothing to remind us of our inner world. Our communion with this inner world is not through contemplation but through books. We have passed from intuition into intellectualism.

The heights of the spirit can only be climbed by passing through the portals of humility. You can only acquire right knowledge when you have learnt to esteem it. Man has certainly the right to turn his eyes to the light, but he must first acquire this right.

There is, in truth, no difference between esoteric knowledge and all the rest of man's knowledge and proficiency. This esoteric knowledge is no more of a secret for the average human being than writing is a secret for those who have never learned it.

The task of science is to stake out the limits of the knowable, and to center consciousness within them.

So unstable are the most plausible theories in the light of objective, factual knowledge

The absence of proof does not constitute the proof of absence.

It seemed the more I knew about people the more I knew about the strange magic hidden in their hearts.

Let the tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil fall, soundless in the moldering woods.

Many religious people are deeply suspicious. They seem—for purely religious purposes, of course—to know more about iniquity than the unregenerate.

I keep six honest serving men(They taught me all I knew);Their names are What and Why and WhenAnd How and Where and Who.

And what should they know of England who only England know?

Every woman knows all about everything.

There is no sin greater than ignorance.