Knowledge of the past and of the places of the earth is the ornament and food of the mind of man.

It is part of my thesis that all our knowledge grows only through the correcting of our mistakes.

Trying to understand is like straining through muddy water. Be still and allow the mud to settle.

Knowledge of God's Word is a bulwark against deception, temptation, accusation, even persecution.

Very many maintain that all we know is still infinitely less than all that still remains unknown.

What a relief it was to discover that I wasnt realy an idiot! I simply had a learning disability.

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

The gurus come from the sickliest nation on earth to tell us how to live. And we pay them for it.

All schools, all colleges have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal valuable knowledge.

We can say of Shakespeare, that never has a man turned so little knowledge to such great account.

Certainty is the most vivid condition of ignorance and the most necessay condition for knowledge.

Reason without learning is like the untilled soil, or like the human body that lacks nourishment.

Without love the acquisition of knowledge only increases confusion and leads to self-destruction.

Information is just bits of data. Knowledge is putting them together. Wisdom is transcending them.

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

Those who would know much, and love little, will ever remain at but the beginning of a godly life.

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but a little want of knowledge is also a dangerous thing.

We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the child.

Not to have knowledge of what happened before you were born is to be condemned to live as a child.

All human knowledge begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to concepts, and ends with ideas.

Henceforth the leaves of the tree of knowledge were for women, and for the healing of the nations.

If I ever see more clearly at one time than at another, the medium through which I see is clearer.

The thing that's important to know is that you never know. You're always sort of feeling your way.

Only professional mathematicians learn anything from proofs. Other people learn from explanations.

To express the same idea in still another way, I think that human knowledge is essentially active.

I am not supposed to be an expert in every field. I am supposed to be an expert in picking experts.

Knowledge is death in my experience. The more I know about film, the harder it is to create freely.

What novelty is worth that sweet monotony where everything is known, and loved because it is known?

The great man, that is, the man most imbued with the spirit of the time, is the impressionable man.

Pursue something so important that even if you fail, the world is better off with you having tried.

Knowledge and devotion, to be true, have to stand the test of renunciation of the fruits of action.

Renunciation is the central sun, round which devotion, knowledge and the rest revolve like planets.

If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.

Learning is an active process. We learn by doing.. Only knowledge that is used sticks in your mind.

We could all use a little coaching. When you're playing the game, it's hard to think of everything.

My father was a lawyer and to my best knowledge nobody in my family before had interest in science.

Human knowledge is dark and uncertain; philosophy is dark, astrology is dark, and geometry is dark.

Information appears to stew out of me naturally, like the precious otter of roses out of the otter.

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

Once and for all, there are many things I choose not to know.--Wisdom sets limits even to knowledge.

Since all things are good, men fail at last to distinguish which is the bane and which the antidote.

Our thinking and our behaviour are always in anticipation of a response. It is therefore fear-based.

Cherish that which is within you, and shut off that which is without; for much knowledge is a curse.

The general knowledge of time on the island depends, curiously enough, on the direction of the wind.

To have real knowledge, one must understand the essence of things and not only their manifestations.

I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.

The auditory perception is not sufficient for our knowledge of the world; it does not have vastness.

We are a people in more need of a little character than we are in need of an abundance of knowledge.

The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.

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