Quotes About Insight

If one must fight or create, it is necessary that this be preceded by the broadest possible knowledge.

Emancipation from error is the condition of real knowledge.

To have knowledge and to know are two different things, and one is possible without the other.

These are the mysterious ways of knowledge, power and enlightenment. I can only allude to them in words. I cannot possibly explain what this process is like.

Art without knowledge is nothing!

I have the same sense of the power and virtue of knowledge that some people get from a religious background.

Knowledge is devalued when it becomes too generally known

It is knowledge that ultimately gives salvation.

Always the laws of light are the same, but the modes and degrees of seeing vary.

It is manifest that all government of action is to be gotten by knowledge, and knowledge best, by gathering many knowledges, which is reading.

A scrap of knowledge about sublime things is worth more than any amount about trivialities.

Knowledge is the only thing I take with me when I go.

In a world of commoditized knowledge, the returns go to the companies who can produce non-standard knowledge.

Information and knowledge: two currencies that have never gone out of style.

Visualizing information is a form of knowledge compression.

It is to the eccentrics that the world owes most of its knowledge.

Of all knowledge the wise and good seek most to know themselves.

The privileges of knowledge have to be bought at the cost of the consolations of ignorance.

To know others is to have knowledge. To know yourself is to be enlightened.

One original thought is worth the sum total of human knowledge, because it advances the sum total of human knowledge by that one original thought.

Not to have knowledge of what happened before you were born is to be condemned to live as a child.

Not if I know myself at all.

Knowledge is the distilled essence of our institutions, corroborated by experience.

It is not so bad being ignorant if you are totally ignorant; the hard thing is knowing in some detail the reality of ignorance.