All Quotes By Tag: Knowledge
“Ah! how little knowledge does a man acquire in his life. He gathers it up like water, but like water it runs between his fingers, and yet, if his hands be but wet as though with dew, behold a generation of fools call out, ‘See, he is a wise man!’ Is it not so?”
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“The results of knowledge without application results in nothing at all. Do what you know better to do.”
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“Before this generation lose the wisdom, one advice – read books.”
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“Not all men (and especially the wisest) share the opinion that it is bad for women to be educated. But it is very true that many foolish men have claimed this because it displeased them that women knew more than they did.”
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“Wisdom is the daughter of experience”
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“truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.”
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“All explicit knowledge is translated knowledge, and all translation is imperfect.”
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“Knowledge is marvelous, but wisdom is even better.”
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“Education is beautification of the inner world and the outer world.”
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“The problem of knowledge is that there are many more books on birds written by ornithologists than books on birds written by birds and books on ornithologists written by birds”
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“The individual appears for an instant, joins the community of thought, modifies it and dies; but the species, that dies not, reaps the fruit of his ephemeral existence.”
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“There is no one way to salvation, whatever the manner in which a man may proceed. All forms and variations are governed by the eternal intelligence of the Universe that enables a man to approach perfection. It may be in the arts of music and painting or it may be in commerce, law, or medicine. It may be in the study of war or the study of peace. Each is as important as any other. Spiritual enlightenment through religious meditation such as Zen or in any other way is as viable and functional as any “Way.”… A person should study as they see fit.”
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