Knowledge Quotes - Page 10

• We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Drinking, Ignorance, History

  "Stevenson's Book of Quotations". Book by Burton Egbert Stevenson, 1938.

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• Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

  William Cowper

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• You must not know too much or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and watercraft; a certain free-margin , or even vagueness - ignorance, credulity - helps your enjoyment of these things.

  Walt Whitman

  Nature, Travel, Flower

  Walt Whitman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Walt Whitman (Illustrated)”, p.1321, Delphi Classics

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• A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Doe, Knows

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• The knowledge of which geometry aims is the knowledge of the eternal.

  Plato

  Plato, Math, Eternity

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• Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

  Carl Jung

  Truth, Business, Thoughtful

  Carl Gustav Jung (2001). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, p.121, Psychology Press

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• Knowledge comes by taking things apart, analysis. But wisdom comes by putting things together.

  John Alexander Morrison

  Wisdom, Science, Together

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• Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.

  Samuel Johnson

  Wise, Wisdom, Men

  Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”

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• People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little. It is plain that an ignorant person thinks everything he does know important, and he tells it to everybody. But a well-educated man is not so ready to display his learning; he would have too much to say, and he sees that there is much more to be said, so he holds his peace.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Men, Thinking, People

  Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “Emile”, p.577, eKitap Projesi

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• Happiness exist when you don't know a thing

  The Weeknd

  Confucianism, Chinese Philosophy, Chinese Philosopher

  Song: Montreal, 2011

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• Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.

  Bertrand Russell

  Life, Strong, Fear

  Autobiography prologue (1967)

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• Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Birthday, Age, Literature

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2004). “D. H. Lawrence: Late Essays and Articles”, p.228, Cambridge University Press

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• Remember that consciousness is power. Consciousness is education and knowledge. Consciousness is becoming aware. It is the perfect vehicle for students. Consciousness-raising is pertinent for power, and be sure that power will not be abusively used, but used for building trust and goodwill domestically and internationally. Tomorrow's world is yours to build.

  Yuri Kochiyama

  Trust, Education, Perfect

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• We frail humans are at one time capable of the greatest good and, at the same time, capable of the greatest evil. Change will only come about when each of us takes up the daily struggle ourselves to be more forgiving, compassionate, loving, and above all joyful in the knowledge that, by some miracle of grace, we can change as those around us can change too.

  Mairead Corrigan

  Time, Struggle, Compassion

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• The store of wisdom does not consist
  of hard coins which keep their shape
  as they pass from hand to hand;
  it consists of ideas and doctrines
  whose meanings change
  with the minds that entertain them.

  John Plamenatz

  Hands, Ideas, Mind

  John Petrov Plamenatz (1963). “Man and Society: A Critical Examination of Some Important Social and Political Theories from Machiavelli to Marx... John Plamenatz....”

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• The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Inspiration, Men, Knowing

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• The study of art is a lifetime matter. The best any artist can do is to accumulate all the knowledge possible of art and its principles, study nature often and then practice continually.

  Edgar Alwin Payne

  Art, Practice, Principles

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• someday we will regard our children not as creatures to manipulate or to change but rather as messengers from a world we once deeply knew, but which we have long since forgotten, who can reveal to us more about the true secrets of life, and also our own lives, than our parents were ever able to.

  Alice Miller

  Life, Change, Children

  Alice Miller (2002). “For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence”, p.18, Macmillan

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• The superior student listens to the Way and follows it closely. The average student listens to the Way and follows some and some not. The lesser student listens to the Way and laughs out loud. If there were no laughter it would not be the Way.

  Laozi

  Laughter, Average, Laughing

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• Love is ever the beginning of knowledge as fire is of light.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Life, Love Is, Fire

  Thomas Carlyle (1842). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: Collected and Republished”, p.123

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• What does mysticism really mean? It means the way to attain knowledge. It's close to philosophy, except in philosophy you go horizontally while in mysticism you go vertically.

  Elie Wiesel

  Philosophy, Mean, Doe

  Elie Wiesel, Robert Franciosi (2002). “Elie Wiesel: Conversations”, p.87, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• All definite knowledge - so I should contend - belongs to science; all dogma as to what surpasses definite knowledge belongs to theology. But between theology and science there is a No Man's Land, exposed to attack by both sides; this No Man's Land is philosophy.

  Bertrand Russell

  Philosophy, Men, Land

  Bertrand Russell (2008). “History of Western Philosophy”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• Do not entertain the notion that you ought to advance in your prayer. If you do, you will only find you have put on the brake instead of the acceleration. All real progress in spiritual things comes gently, imperceptibly, and is the work of God. Our crude efforts spoil it. Know yourself for the childish, limited and dependent soul you are. Remember that the only growth which matters happens without our knowledge and that trying to stretch ourselves is both dangerous and silly. Think of the Infinite Goodness, never of your own state.

  Evelyn Underhill

  God, Christian, Spiritual

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• I do not believe...I know.

  Carl Jung

  Believe, Knows

  Carl Gustav Jung (2011). “Interpretação psicológica do dogma da Trindade”, p.8, Editora Vozes Limitada

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• Do you know that the words meditation and medicine come from the same root? Meditation is a kind of medicine; its use is only for the time being. Once you have learned the quality, then you need not do any particular meditation, then the meditation has to spread all over your life. Only when you are meditative twenty-four hours a day then can you attain, then you have attained. Even sleeping is meditation.

  Rajneesh

  Life, Wise, Spiritual

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