Quotes Tagged "knowledge"

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.

Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.

Acquiring wisdom is great but it is not the goal, applying it is.

We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.

We understand more than we know.

Knowledge that is acquired is not like this. Those who have it worry if audiences like it or not. It's a bait for popularity. Disputational knowing wants customers. It has no soul... The only real customer is God. Chew quietly your sweet sugarcane God-Love, and stay playfully childish.

The barrier during self-improvement is not so much that we hate learning, rather we hate being taught. To learn entails that the knowledge was achieved on one's own accord - it feels great - but to be taught often leaves a feeling of inferiority. Thus it takes a bit of determination and a lot of humility in order for one to fully develop.

The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking or writing, there would be no truth about anything. There would only be what is.

To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.

There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.

You can never know everything. Part of what you know is always wrong. Perhaps the most important part. A portion of wisdom lies in knowing that. A portion of knowledge lies in going on anyway.

I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss

While differing widely in the various little bits we know, in our infinite ignorance we are all equal.

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

Since there is no real silence, Silence will contain all the sounds, All the words, all the languages, All knowledge, all memory.

It is not our right to punish one for thinking as he does, no matter how much we disagree.

he who will not economize will have to agonize

Old words are reborn with new faces.

The problem of knowledge is that there are many more books on birds written by ornithologists than books on birds written by birds and books on ornithologists written by birds