Knowledge Quotes
If you take the knowledge out of my head and take the experiences that I have, I'm broke. I'm nothing.
If you dissemble sometimes your knowledge of that you are thought to know, you shall be thought, another time, to know that you know not.
To understand matters rightly we should understand their details; and as that knowledge is almost infinite, our knowledge is always superficial and imperfect.
Science sans conscience n' est que le ruine de l'âme. Knowledge without conscience is but the ruine of the soule.
Knowledge, like experience, is valid in fiction only after it has dissolved and filtered down through the imagination into reality.
The Germans believe that, no matter where, they can get by on knowledge alone. Art, however, requires skill.
Distinctly different as a child, as an adolescent, in his prime and in his old age, man considers himself as one, not because he acts, but because he knows.
Eve tasted the apple in the Garden of Eden in order to slake that intense thirst for knowledge that the simple pleasure of picking flowers and talking to Adam could not satisfy.
None of this is real. All of this is an illusion and your acceptance of that fact is the beginning of the pathway to self-knowledge.
The idea of trying to create things that last-forever knowledge-has guided my work for a long time now.
The purpose of science is not to analyze or describe but to make useful models of the world. A model is useful if it allows us to get use out of it.
More is got from one book on which the thought settles for a definite end in knowledge, than from libraries skimmed over by a wandering eye.
Not in the knowledge of things without, but in the perfection of the soul within, lies the empire of man aspiring to be more than man.
In this lifetime you can lose everything. Everything passes here. But you don't lose any spiritual knowledge that you have gained in this or any other lifetime. It is inside you.
The knowledge of the past times and of the places of the earth is both an ornament and nutriment to the human mind.
An enlightened person doesn't know it all. Enlightenment simply means walking beyond this and all worlds into nirvana, which is beyond knowledge and ignorance.
Making things difficult for the reader is less an attack on the reader than it is on the age and its facile knowledge-market.
Error has made man so deep, sensitive, and inventive that he has put forth such blossoms as religions and arts. Pure knowledge could not have been capable of it.
Even great spirits have only their five-fingers' breadth of experience - just beyond it their thinking ceases and their endless empty space and stupidity begins.
In almost all sciences the fundamental knowledge is either found in earliest times or is still being sought.
As long as you still experience the stars as something "above you", you lack the eye of knowledge.
In order to acquire intellect one must need it. One loses it when it is no longer necessary.
In the knowledge of truth, what really matters is the possession of it, not the impulse under which it was sought.
Once and for all, there are many things I choose not to know.--Wisdom sets limits even to knowledge.
Everything is the same, nothing is worthwhile, the world is senseless, knowledge strangles.
Our knowledge will take its revenge on us, just as ignorance exacted its revenge during the Middle Ages.
Probability but no truth, facility but no freedom--it is owing to these two fruits that the tree of knowledge cannot be confused with the tree of life.
All names of good and evil are images; they do not speak out, they only hint. He is a fool who seeks knowledge from them.
I take it as a given that God's knowledge of the Cerebus storyline dwarfs my own as God's knowledge of everything dwarfs my own.
The trouble with the media is that it seems unable to distinguish between the end of the world and a bicycle accident.
While knowledge is orderly and cumulative, information is random and miscellaneous.
Throught human history, illusions of knowledge, not ignorance, have proven to be the principal obstacles to discovery
There is no higher or lower knowledge, but one only, flowing out of experimentation.
We must know, if only in order to learn not to know. The supreme lesson of human consciousness is to learn how not to know. That is, how not to interfere.
Saying what we think gives us a wider conversational range than saying what we know.
In media, there's a distance and an unrealistic expectation of knowledge about a person that's created.
When all beliefs are challenged together, the just and necessary ones have a chance to step forward and re-establish themselves alone.
You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt.