Quotes Tagged "knowledge"

What is knowledge, if it does to shape our conduct?

He who knows ignorance well shall least know understanding well; he who knows understanding well shall surely know and understand ignorance well

You know what I'm sick of? Using my brain. All day long it's people and words and stress and meetings and books that you don't remember you're not really into until you open them on the train home and compromise and sometimes I just want to look at a picture of a dress. Followed by a picture of some cupcakes. And then a kitten.

...[M]oral instruction, although containing much that is convincing for the reason, ...accomplishes... little... [because] the teachers themselves have not got their own notions clear, and when they endeavor to make up for this by raking up motives of moral goodness from every quarter, trying to make their physic right strong, they spoil it.

To fix hearts one must know one's own.

Reality is based mainly on knowledge, what you do not know doesn't exit for you.

Where there is competition, one cannot attain (true) 'Knowledge'.

Circumstances will change but (True) Knowledge [Gnan] will not change.

Reality is mainly based on knowledge, what you do not know doesn't exist to you. Above all get knowledge and wisdom.

To have the wisdom is rarely achieved by seeking the knowledge.

As muscles waste with no gravity or strain so is our minds when there is no mental challenge or substance to digest

I think the essence of wisdom is emancipation, as far as possible, from the tyranny of the here and now.

Not everyone who talks less or keeps quiet whenever they are with or around you does that because they find you interesting or knowledgeable; some people do that because they find you boring or ignorant.

The people’s silence is a tyrant’s greatest advocate. The less captives talked, the less they knew; the less they knew, the more they feared; and the more they feared, the more easily others could manipulate them to their own ends, the more easily the captives could be controlled.

It's hard to know what's right in this life,' she said. 'We do what we can, but what we really need is mercy. Do you know who taught me that?' A grin. 'You.

If I knew then what I know now I guess it'd make no difference; Fate's sure in the way somehow. What's important is the essence. Although we still have free will We also have a whole lot to deal.

In general, people accumulate knowledge gradually over a long period of time. However, there are extraordinary people all around us, who are capable of accumulating impressive amounts of knowledge within a relatively short period of time. Nevertheless, even the greatest genius possesses only a small fraction of all knowledge known by mankind. Finally, the following question arises: how large is all the existing knowledge in comparison to the space of ignorance?

The more you realize, the more you realize there is nothing to realize. The idea that there's somewhere we have got to get to, and something we have to attain, is our basic delusion.

In the world of personal development and spiritual growth, a seeker embarks on a path of self-discovery and self-improvement. A seeker desires to discover knowledge and use an enhanced level of personal awareness to alter their behavior, opinions, beliefs, and point of view in order to experience reality in a different and more wholesome manner than the prior path that lead to self-rejection.

There are too many literati, yet very few are smart; knowledge is acquired far too easily.