Knowledge Quotes - Page 11

The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking or writing, there would be no truth about anything. There would only be what is.

We are all small-minded people, creeping about the earth grubbing for our own advantage and making the very mistakes for which we want to humiliate our neighbors.

While wisdom dictates the need for education, education does not necessarily make one wise.

I thought to myself: I am wiser than this man; neither of us probably knows anything that is really good, but he thinks he has knowledge, when he has not, while I, having no knowledge, do not think I have.

all appears to change when we change

originality and a feeling of one's own dignity are achieved only through work and struggle.

There is no greater power than the one others do not believe you possess.

Logic is immaturity weaving its nets of gossamer wherewith it aims to catch the behemoth of knowledge. Logic is a crutch for the cripple, but a burden for the swift of foot and a greater burden still for the wise.

It is important never to separate love and knowledge, compassion and wisdom. A wisdom without compassion is closed upon itself and does not bear fruit. A compassion without wisdom is a madness and a cause of suffering.

Knowledge is a Bed of Roses; for Every Beautiful Flower, there are a Dozen Thorns to Match

Where is the Life we have lost in living?
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

We understand more than we know.

Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy

There are those who know and those who don't know. And for every ten thousand who don't know there's only one who knows. That's the miracle of all time-the fact that these millions know so much but don't know this.

Wenn du weißt, behaupte, dass du es weißt. Und wenn du etwas nicht weißt, gib zu, dass du es nicht weißt. Das ist Wissen.

I see at last that all the knowledge

I wrung from the darkness - that the darkness flung me -
Is worthless as ignorance: nothing comes from nothing,
The darkness from the darkness. Pain comes from the darkness
And we call it wisdom. It is pain.

a problem well put is half solved.

truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.

A fool can easily be known(identified) by what proceeds from his or her mouth.

Science says the first word on everything, and the last word on nothing.