Knowledge
Quotes - A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge
“Education
doesn’t make you happy. Nor does freedom. We don’t become happy just because
we’re free – if we are. Or because we’ve been educated – if we have. But
because education may be the means by which we realize we are happy. It opens
our eyes, our ears, tells us where delights are lurking, convinces us that
there is only one freedom of any importance whatsoever, that of the mind, and
gives us the assurance – the confidence – to walk the path our mind, our
educated mind, offers.”
―
Iris Murdoch
“No
one knows anything, really. It's all rented, or borrowed.”
―
Ian McEwan
“People
think that epilepsy is divine simply because they don't have any idea what
causes epilepsy. But I believe that someday we will understand what causes
epilepsy, and at that moment, we will cease to believe that it's divine. And so
it is with everything in the universe”
―
Hippocrates
“To
force oneself to believe and to accept a thing without understanding is
political, and not spiritual or intellectual.”
―
Siddhārtha Gautama
“Suppose
that we are wise enough to learn and know—and yet not wise enough to control
our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if
that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance. It is better to know—even
if the knowledge endures only for the moment that comes before destruction—than
to gain eternal life at the price of a dull and swinish lack of comprehension
of a universe that swirls unseen before us in all its wonder. That was the
choice of Achilles, and it is mine, too.”
―
Isaac Asimov
“A
loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.”
―
Thomas Carlyle
“Poetry
and art and knowledge are sacred and pure.”
―
George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss
“Alas,
how terrible is wisdom
when
it brings no profit to the man that's wise!
This
I knew well, but had forgotten it,
else
I would not have come here.”
―
Sophocles, Oedipus Rex
“You
have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you have lost
something.”
―
George Bernard Shaw, Major Barbara
“O
how incomprehensible everything was, and actually sad, although it was also
beautiful. One knew nothing. One lived and ran about the earth and rode through
forests, and certain things looked so challenging and promising and nostalgic:
a star in the evening, a blue harebell, a reed-green pond, the eye of a person
or a cow. And sometimes it seemed that something never seen yet long desired
was about to happen, that a veil would drop from it all, but then it passed,
nothing happened, the riddle remained unsolved, the secret spell unbroken, and
in the end one grew old and looked cunning . . . or wise . . . and still one
knew nothing perhaps, was still waiting and listening.”
―
Herman Hesse, Narcissus and Goldmund
“Despite
my firm convictions, I have been always a man who tries to face facts, and to
accept the reality of life as new experience and new knowledge unfolds it. I
have always kept an open mind, which is necessary to the flexibility that must
go hand in hand with every form of intelligent search for truth.”
―
Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X
“The
real purpose of the scientific method is to make sure nature hasn’t misled you
into thinking you know something you actually don’t know.”
―
Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into
Values
“To
know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not
know, that is true knowledge.”
―
Nicolaus Copernicus
“Many
much-learned men have no intelligence.”
―
Democritus
“The
barrier during self-improvement is not so much that we hate learning, rather we
hate being taught. To learn entails that the knowledge was achieved on one's
own accord - it feels great - but to be taught often leaves a feeling of
inferiority. Thus it takes a bit of determination and a lot of humility in
order for one to fully develop.”
―
Criss Jami, Killosophy
“It
is important to view knowledge as sort of a semantic tree -- make sure you
understand the fundamental principles, ie the trunk and big branches, before
you get into the leaves/details or there is nothing for them to hang on to.”
―
Elon Musk
“His
priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress
upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.”
―
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
“Only
a blind man can easily define what light is. When you do not know, you are
bold. Ignorance is always bold; knowledge hesitates. And the more you know, the
more you feel that the ground underneath is dissolving. The more you know, the
more you feel how ignorant you are.”
―
Osho, The Book of Secrets
“When
you have wisdom that another person knows that he needs, you give it freely.
But when the other person doesn't yet know that he needs your wisdom you keep
it to yourself. Food only looks good to a hungry man.”
―
Orson Scott Card, Xenocide
“The
common man prays, 'I want a cookie right now!' And God responds, 'If you'd
listen to what I say, tomorrow it will bring you 100 cookies.”
―
Criss Jami, Killosophy
“Words
define us,' Mom continued, as I struggled to make my clumsy marks look like her
elegant script. 'We must protect our knowledge and pass it on whenever we can.
If we are ever to become a society again, we must teach others how to remain
human.”
―
Julie Kagawa, The Immortal Rules
“It
is said there are flowers that bloom only once in a hundred years. Why should
there not be some that bloom once in a thousand, in ten thousand years? Perhaps
we never know about them simply because this "once in a thousand
years" has come today.”
―
Zamyatin, We
“Darkness
feeds on apathy.”
―
Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol
“Everybody
gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.”
―
Gertrude Stein
“Share
your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.”
―
Dalai Lama XIV
