Knowledge Quotes
Those who want to row on the ocean of human knowledge do not get far, and the storm drives those out of their course who set sail.
The bureaucracy is a circle from which no one can escape. Its hierarchy is a hierarchy of knowledge.
There can be knowledge of the diabolical, but no belief in it, for more of the diabolical than there is does not exist.
The place where...knowledge occurs is the present. That which recognizes the present is mind.
It is the mission of the printer to diffuse light and knowledge by a judicious intermingling of black with white.
Seek not the depths of your knowledge with staff or sounding line. For self is a sea boundless and measureless.
If your knowledge teaches you not the value of things, and frees you not from the bondage to matter, you shall never come near the throne of Truth.
The body will blossom and fade, but you will remain after this body of yours has gone away. This knowledge allows you to love the body without attachment. Thus, the body becomes absolutely pure.
On the ostensible exactitude of certain branches of human knowledge, including mathematics. The exactness is a fake.
In the esoteric teachings, a transference process takes place between teacher and student where knowledge is actually transmitted from one to the other. This requires that the student be receptive.
Test knowledge through experience, be prepared to make mistakes, and be persistent about it.
Science explained people, but could not understand them. After long centuries among the bones and muscles it might be advancing to knowledge of the nerves, but this would never give understanding
The height of ability consists in a thorough knowledge of the real value of things, and of the genius of the age in which we live.
Unlock the power of the will. Learn balance and gain the knowledge and wisdom necessary to guide those powers, to succeed in sports and athletics.
Einstein's results again turned the tables and now very few philosophers or scientists still think that scientific knowledge is, or can be, proven knowledge.
During the century after Newton, it was still possible for a man of unusual attainments to master all fields of scientific knowledge. But by 1800, this had become entirely impracticable.
Was it not the great philosopher and mathematician Leibnitz who said that the more knowledge advances the more it becomes possible to condense it into little books?
The advance of scientific knowledge does not seem to make either our universe or our inner life in it any less mysterious.
You see only the productions of second-rate folk who are in a hurry to get wealth and fame. The true knowledge, the deadly knowledge, is still kept secret. But, believe me, my friend, it is there.
The tiny, initial clue ... by allowing us to imagine what we do not know, stimulates a desire for knowledge.
The Communist Party said that I must finish my studies because after the revolution in Germany people would be required with technical knowledge to take part in the building of the Communist Germany.
The realm of immediate or personal knowledge is a narrow circle in which these bodies move; the realm of knowledge derived through faith is as wide as the universe, and old as eternity.
People respect us, they love us and they're entertained by us, so it's like when you trust somebody on that level, it's a lot easier to speak some real knowledge into their minds.
No amount of technical knowledge and competence is, of itself, sufficient to make a craftperson into an artist. That requires caring - passionate caring about ultimate things.
Genuine historical knowledge requires nobility of character, a profound understanding of human existence - not detachment and objectivity.
Evil feeds off a source of apathy, weak in the mind, and of course you have to be. Less than a man, more like a thing, no knowledge you're nothing, knowledge is king.
The strongest knowledge (that of the total freedom of the human will) is nonetheless the poorest in successes: for it always has the strongest opponent, human vanity.
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing. And in knowing that you know nothing, that makes you the smartest of all.
Until we have the right knowledge of God, the knowledge of self and our need for grace remains distorted.
The medieval university looked backwards; it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge. The modern university looks forward, and is a factory of new knowledge.
Engineers use knowledge primarily to design, produce, and operate artifacts. ... Scientists, by contrast, use knowledge primarily to generate more knowledge.
Philosophy is harmonized knowledge making a harmonious life; it is the self-discipline which lifts us to serenity and freedom. Knowledge is power, but only wisdom is liberty.
I think in most jobs, you get better as you get older. You gain experience, you gain knowledge.
So no one should rely on television either for their knowledge of music or for news. There's just more going on. It's an adjunct to the written word, which I think is still the most important thing.
In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way, and the pavement is eternal.
