Knowledge Quotes - Page 8

What you find in the mirror you will find in the reality it mirrors.

Poetry is Life. We experience poetry from the time we awake each morning and inhale that fresh breath of air. You are living poetry. Poetry is not defined by the laws of man. Inspiration is the key.

Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.

Unchain the beast which lurks beneath your skin; for if you were to throw it the key to freedom, you would watch in ore as you transform into your true self.

The sacred dimension is not something that you can know through words and ideas any more than you can learn what an apple pie tastes like by eating the recipe. The modern age has forgotten that facts and information, for all their usefulness, are not the same as truth or wisdom, and certainly not the same as direct experience.

I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

Philosophy ... is a science, and as such has no articles of faith; accordingly, in it nothing can be assumed as existing except what is either positively given empirically, or demonstrated through indubitable conclusions.

All men by nature desire knowledge.

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.

To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others.

All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge.

My heart knows what my mind only think it knows.

I only know that I know nothing

Ideas are the source of all things

Without knowledge of what I am and why I am here, it is impossible to live, and since I cannot know that, I cannot live either. In an infinity of time, in an infinity of matter, and an infinity of space a bubble-organism emerges while will exist for a little time and then burst, and that bubble am I.

The complexities of adult life get in the way of the truth. The great philosophers have always been able to clear away the complexities and see simple distinctions - simple once they are stated, vastly difficult before. If we are to follow them we too must be childishly simple in our questions - and maturely wise in our replies.

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

The Encyclopedia-the advance artillery of reason, the armada of philosophy, the siege engine of the enlightenment...

The Theist tells us that the truth is god exists,
the Atheist tells us that the truth is there is no god,
while the truth tells us we don't know.