Knowledge Quotes - Page 3

If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.

A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.

Everything you have done and been through is valuable and important. In order to be who you are, to know what you know, to be where you are in this moment, you needed to go through what you went through.

The greatest single cause of atheism in the world today is Christians, who acknowledge Jesus with their lips and walk out the door, and deny Him by their lifestyle. That is what an unbelieving world simply finds unbelievable.

The theory of medicine, therefore, presents what is useful in thought, but does not indicate how it is to be applied in practice-the mode of operation of these principles. The theory, when mastered, gives us a certain kind of knowledge. Thus we say, for example, there are three forms of fevers and nine constitutions. The practice of medicine is not the work which the physician carries out, but is that branch of medical knowledge which, when acquired, enables one to form an opinion upon which to base the proper plan of treatment.

I know that I exist; the question is, What is this 'I' that 'I' know.

Of all the knowledge that we can ever obtain, the knowledge of God, and the knowledge of ourselves, are the most important.

The more knowledge you have, the greater will be your fear of Allah.

A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.

We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.

Of all the frictional resistances, the one that most retards human movement is ignorance, what Buddha called 'the greatest evil in the world.' The friction which results from ignorance ... can be reduced only by the spread of knowledge and the unification of the heterogeneous elements of humanity. No effort could be better spent.

Life is not what one lived, but what One remembers and how One remembers it in order to recount it

Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.

The more we understand what is happening in the world, the more frustrated we often become, for our knowledge leads to feelings of powerlessness. We feel that we are living in a world in which the citizen has become a mere spectator or a forced actor, and that our personal experience is politically useless and our political will a minor illusion.

Since it is impossible, without God, to come to knowledge of God, he teaches men through his Word to know God.

The end of all learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love and imitate Him.

When you study natural science and the miracles of creation, if you don't turn into a mystic you are not a natural scientist.

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.

In a spiral galaxy, the ratio of dark-to-light matter is about a factor of ten. That's probably a good number for the ratio of our ignorance-to-knowledge. We're out of kindergarten, but only in about third grade.

Knowledge is no guarantee of good behavior, but ignorance is a virtual guarantee of bad behavior.

Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.

The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.

By all means sometimes be alone; salute thyself; see what thy soul doth wear; dare to look in thy chest; and tumble up and down what thou findest there.

The greatest derangement of the mind is to believe in something because one wishes it to be so.

The initial step for us all to come to knowledge of God is contemplation of nature.