Knowledge
Quotes - Remember it all, every Insult, every Tear
“Remember
it all, every insult, every tear. Tattoo it on the inside of your mind. In
life, knowledge of poisons is essential. I've told you, nobody becomes an
artist unless they have to.”
―
Janet Fitch
“Opinion
is really the lowest form of human knowledge. It requires no accountability, no
understanding. The highest form of knowledge… is empathy, for it requires us to
suspend our egos and live in another’s world. It requires profound purpose
larger than the self kind of understanding.”
―
Bill Bullard
“Conquer
the angry one by not getting angry; conquer the wicked by goodness; conquer the
stingy by generosity, and the liar by speaking the truth.
[Verse
223]”
―
Siddhārtha Gautama, The Dhammapada
“The
knowledge of all things is possible”
―
Leonardo da Vinci
“What
transforms this world is — knowledge. Do you see what I mean? Nothing else can
change anything in this world. Knowledge alone is capable of transforming the
world, while at the same time leaving it exactly as it is. When you look at the
world with knowledge, you realize that things are unchangeable and at the same
time are constantly being transformed.”
―
Yukio Mishima, The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
“You
can't know, you can only believe - or not.”
―
C.S. Lewis
“To
know that you do not know is the best.
To
think you know when you do not is a disease.
Recognizing
this disease as a disease is to be free of it.”
―
Lao Tzu
“Doubt
… is an illness that comes from knowledge and leads to madness.”
―
Gustave Flaubert, Memoirs of a Madman
“Books
permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors. The
library connects us with the insight and knowledge, painfully extracted from
Nature, of the greatest minds that ever were, with the best teachers, drawn
from the entire planet and from all our history, to instruct us without tiring,
and to inspire us to make our own contribution to the collective knowledge of
the human species. I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our
awareness about the underpinnings of our culture and our concern for the future
can all be tested by how well we support our libraries.”
―
Carl Sagan, Cosmos
“Because
there are three classes of intellects: one which comprehends by itself; another
which appreciates what others comprehend; and a third which neither comprehends
by itself nor by the showing of others; the first is the most excellent, the
second is good, the third is useless.”
―
Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
“I
definitely learned a lesson this time. I know that I can be broken. I am not as
tough as I thought. I see it now. At this point, it's the only thing good that
came out of all of this. I know myself better now and know what I have to do.”
―
Henry Rollins, The Portable Henry Rollins
“You
never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.”
―
William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
“Information
is not knowledge.”
―
Albert Einstein
“Don't
be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn't do what you do or think as you think
or as fast. There was a time when you didn't know what you know today.”
―
Malcolm X
“To
light a candle is to cast a shadow...”
―
Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea
“...
there is no shame in not knowing. The problem arises when irrational thought
and attendant behavior fill the vacuum left by ignorance.”
―
Neil deGrasse Tyson, The Sky Is Not the Limit: Adventures of an Urban
Astrophysicist
“I
examined the poets, and I look on them as people whose talent overawes both
themselves and others, people who present themselves as wise men and are taken
as such, when they are nothing of the sort.
From
poets, I moved to artists. No one was more ignorant about the arts than I; no
one was more convinced that artists possessed really beautiful secrets.
However, I noticed that their condition was no better than that of the poets
and that both of them have the same misconceptions. Because the most skillful
among them excel in their specialty, they look upon themselves as the wisest of
men. In my eyes, this presumption completely tarnished their knowledge. As a
result, putting myself in the place of the oracle and asking myself what I
would prefer to be — what I was or what they were, to know what they have
learned or to know that I know nothing — I replied to myself and to the god: I
wish to remain who I am.
We
do not know — neither the sophists, nor the orators, nor the artists, nor I—
what the True, the Good, and the Beautiful are. But there is this difference
between us: although these people know nothing, they all believe they know
something; whereas, I, if I know nothing, at least have no doubts about it. As
a result, all this superiority in wisdom which the oracle has attributed to me
reduces itself to the single point that I am strongly convinced that I am
ignorant of what I do not know.”
―
Socrates
“No
man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the
dawning of your knowledge.
The
teacher who walks in the shadow of the temple, among his followers, gives not
of his wisdom but rather of his faith and his lovingness.
If
he is indeed wise he does not bid you enter the house of his wisdom, but rather
leads you to the threshold of your own mind.”
―
Khalil Gibran, The Prophet
“Belief
can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.”
―
Frank Herbert
“You're
a hopeless romantic," said Faber. "It would be funny if it were not
serious. It's not books you need, it's some of the things that once were in
books. The same things could be in the 'parlor families' today. The same
infinite detail and awareness could be projected through the radios, and
televisors, but are not. No,no it's not books at all you're looking for! Take
it where you can find it, in old phonograph records, old motion pictures, and
in old friends; look for it in nature and look for it in yourself. Books were
only one type or receptacle where we stored a lot of things we were afraid we
might forget. There is nothing magical in them at all. The magic is only in
what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one
garment for us. Of course you couldn't know this, of course you still can't
understand what I mean when i say all this. You are intuitively right, that's
what counts.”
―
Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
