Knowledge Quotes - Page 6

Children with Hyacinth's temperament don't know better as they grow older; they merely know more.

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

All knowledge degenerates into probability.

I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.

Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

I am not blind to the shortcomings of our own people. I am not unaware that leaders betray, and sell out, and play false. But this knowledge does not outweigh the fact that my class, the working class, is exploited, driven, fought back with the weapon of starvation, with guns and with venal courts whenever they strike for conditions more human, more civilized for their children, and for their children's children.

Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.

Those who seek knowledge, collect something every day. Those who seek the Way, let go of something every day.

An enterprise is a community of human beings, not a collection of "human resources".

The most important single factor influencing learning is what the learner already knows. Ascertain this and teach him accordingly.

The best thing a human being can do is to help another human being know more.

The actual state of our knowledge is always provisional and... there must be, beyond what is actually known, immense new regions to discover.

In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.

There comes a time when the pain of continuing exceeds the pain of stopping. At that moment, a threshold is crossed. What seemed unthinkable becomes thinkable. Slowly, the realization emerges that the choice to continue what you have been doing is the choice to live in discomfort, and the choice to stop what you have been doing is the choice to breathe deeply and freely again. Once that realization has emerged, you can either honor it or ignore it, but you cannot forget it. What has become known can not become unknown again.

Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.

I was no longer the centre of my life and therefore I could see God in everything.

Give, give, give - what is the point of having experience, knowledge or talent if I don't give it away? Of having stories if I don't tell them to others? Of having wealth if I don't share it? I don't intend to be cremated with any of it! It is in giving that I connect with others, with the world and with the divine.

The Earth is alive and contains the knowledge you seek. It is your consciousness that determines what it reveals. How to access this knowledge? And where are the keys to open it and make it yours? The Earth speaks. Love her, honor and respect her and she will reveal her secrets.

Western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but rather, it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent.

The key to wisdom is this - constant and frequent questioning, for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth.

You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way.

In these times I don't, in a manner of speaking, know what I want; perhaps I don't want what I know and want what I don't know.

With enough of us, around the world, we'll not just send a strong message opposing the privatization of knowledge - we'll make it a thing of the past.

Traditional scientific method has always been at the very best, 20 - 20 hindsight. It's good for seeing where you've been. It's good for testing the truth of what you think you know, but it can't tell you where you ought to go.

Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.