Knowledge Quotes
For lust of knowing what should not be known, we take the Golden Road to Samarkand.
Behind the man is the Tree of Life, bearing twelve fruits, and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil is behind the woman; the serpent is twining round it.
Head knowledge without heart knowledge is worse than useless; but when head and heart join forces, it changes our lives forever.
More knowledge may be gained of a man's real character by a short conversation with one of his servants than from a formal and studied narrative, begun with his pedigree and ended with his funeral.
Science is a mechanism, a way of trying to improve your knowledge of nature. It's a system for testing your thoughts against the universe, and seeing whether they match.
Chiropractic embraces the science of life, the knowledge of how organisms act in health and disease, and also the art of adjusting the neuroskeleton.
I try to get rid of people who always confidently answer questions about which they don't have any real knowledge.
Not-knowing is true knowledge. Presuming to know is a disease. First realize that you are sick; then you can move toward health.
No human mind can comprehend all the knowledge which guides the actions of society.
A philosophy can only be a route to knowledge. It cannot be knowledge crammed down one's throat. If one has a route, he can then find what is true for him. And that is Scientology.
Knowledge and wisdom must go hand in hand. The adept will therefore endeavour to get on in knowledge as well as in wisdom, for neither of the two must lag behind in development.
He that cometh to seek after knowledge, with a mind to scorn, shall be sure to find matter for his humour, but no matter for his instruction.
All our knowledge - past, present, and future - is nothing compared to what we will never know.
If, then, knowledge be power, how much more power to we gain through the agency of faith, and what elevation must it give to human character.
There is a wide knowledge gap between us and the developed world in the West and in Asia. Our only choice is to bridge this gap as quickly as possible, because our age is defined by knowledge.
... studying is a preparation for knowing; it is a patient and impatient exercise on the part of someone whose intent is not to know it all at once but to struggle to meet the timing of knowledge.
To my eye, women get sexier around 35. They know a thing or two, and knowledge is always alluring.
Absorb knowledge from every possible source and opportunity. Power gravitates to the man who knows how and why.
Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.
Definition: Alpinism is the art of going through the mountains confronting the greatest dangers with the biggest of cares. What we call art here, is the application of a knowledge to an action.
Trust is not bound up with knowledge so much as it is with freedom, the openness to the unknown.
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing - it only hastens fools to rush in where angels fear to tread.
What's scary in life is not what people know (or don't know), but what they know that ain't so.
Knowledge is understanding based on what has been studied and learned. Wisdom is understanding based on what has been felt and experienced.
Creativity depends on a number of things: experience, including knowledge and technical skills; talent; an ability to think in new ways; and the capacity to push through uncreative dry spells.
In Zen, actions speak louder than words. Doing is more important than knowing, and knowledge which cannot be translated into action is of little worth.
The poor need jobs and money, not psychoanalysis. The uneducated need knowledge and skills, not psychoanalysis.
Genuine spiritual knowledge lies not in wonderful and mysterious thoughts but in actual spiritual experience through union of the believer's life with truth.
There are other sources of psychological knowledge, which become accessible at the very point where the experimental method fails us.
It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.
Education is beautification of the inner world and the outer world.
Knowledge is a tool, and like all tools, its impact is in the hands of the user.
The thing that's important to know is that you never know. You're always sort of feeling your way.
Faith consists, not in ignorance, but in knowledge, and that, not only of God, but also of the divine will.
The wisdom of samadhi is quite different. Higher level wisdom cannot be written down. It cannot be spoken. True wisdom is the knowledge of the universe that is beyond physical expression.