Knowledge
Quotes - Life is like a game of Chess
“Life
is like a game of chess.
To
win you have to make a move.
Knowing
which move to make comes with IN-SIGHT
and
knowledge, and by learning the lessons that are
acculated
along the way.
We
become each and every piece within the game called life!”
―
Allan Rufus, The Master's Sacred Knowledge
“The
first men to be created and formed were called the Sorcerer of Fatal Laughter,
the Sorcerer of Night, Unkempt, and the Black Sorcerer … They were endowed with
intelligence, they succeeded in knowing all that there is in the world. When
they looked, instantly they saw all that is around them, and they contemplated
in turn the arc of heaven and the round face of the earth … [Then the Creator
said]: 'They know all … what shall we do with them now? Let their sight reach
only to that which is near; let them see only a little of the face of the
earth!… Are they not by nature simple creatures of our making? Must they also
be gods?”
―
Anonymous, Popol Vuh
“I
had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith.”
―
Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason
“The
happiness of the drop is to die in the river.”
―
Imam Al-Ghazali
“Then
why do you want to know?"
"Because
learning does not consist only of knowing what we must or we can do, but also
of knowing what we could do and perhaps should not do.”
―
Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose
“Knowledge
always has the potential to be dangerous. It is a more powerful weapon than any
sword or spell.”
―
Margaret Rogerson, Sorcery of Thorns
“No,
our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what
science cannot give us we can get elsewhere.”
―
Sigmund Freud, The Future of an Illusion
“nothing
that is worth knowing can be taught”
―
Oscar Wilde
“A
stranger is shot in the street, you hardly move to help. But if, half an hour
before, you spent just ten minutes with the fellow and knew a little about him
and his family, you might just jump in front of his killer and try to stop it.
Really knowing is good. Not knowing, or refusing to know is bad, or amoral, at
least. You can’t act if you don’t know.”
―
Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes
“Our
feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.”
―
Audre Lorde
“Knowledge
is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.”
―
Lao Tzu
“And
so seated next to my father in the train compartment, I suddenly asked,
"Father, what is sexsin?"
He
turned to look at me, as he always did when answering a question, but to my
surprise he said nothing. At last he stood up, lifted his traveling case off
the floor and set it on the floor.
Will
you carry it off the train, Corrie?" he said.
I
stood up and tugged at it. It was crammed with the watches and spare parts he
had purchased that morning.
It's
too heavy," I said.
Yes,"
he said, "and it would be a pretty poor father who would ask his little
girl to carry such a load. It's the same way, Corrie, with knowledge. Some
knowledge is too heavy for children. When you are older and stronger, you can
bear it. For now you must trust me to carry it for you.”
―
Corrie Ten Boom, The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom
“Always
forgive, but never forget, else you will be a prisoner of your own hatred, and
doomed to repeat your mistakes forever.”
―
Wil Zeus, Sun Beyond the Clouds
“When
you reach the end of what you should know, you will be at the beginning of what
you should sense.”
―
Kahlil Gibrán, Sand and Foam
“Popular
culture is a place where pity is called compassion, flattery is called love,
propaganda is called knowledge, tension is called peace, gossip is called news,
and auto-tune is called singing.”
―
Criss Jami, Killosophy
“No
one is going to give you the education you need to overthrow them. Nobody is
going to teach you your true history, teach you your true heroes, if they know
that that knowledge will help set you free.”
―
Assata Shakur
“Bodily
exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is
acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.”
―
Plato, The Republic
“There
are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the
latter ignorance.”
―
Hippocrates
“I
have always thirsted for knowledge, I have always been full of questions.”
―
Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
“The
advancement of science and the diffusion of information [is] the best aliment
to true liberty.”
―
James Madison
