All Quotes By Tag: Knowledge
“Since there is no real silence, Silence will contain all the sounds, All the words, all the languages, All knowledge, all memory.”
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“You can never know everything. Part of what you know is always wrong. Perhaps the most important part. A portion of wisdom lies in knowing that. A portion of knowledge lies in going on anyway.”
“To acquire knowledge, one must study;but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss”
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“Quiet people always know more than they seem. Although very normal, their inner world is by default fronted mysterious and therefore assumed weird. Never underestimate the social awareness and sense of reality in a quiet person; they are some of the most observant, absorbent persons of all.”
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“Knowledge that is acquiredis not like this. Those who have it worry ifaudiences like it or not.It’s a bait for popularity.Disputational knowing wants customers.It has no soul…The only real customer is God.Chew quietlyyour sweet sugarcane God-Love, and stayplayfully childish.”
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“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.”
“We understand more than we know.”
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“We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.”
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“Nothing can illustrate these observations more forcibly, than a recollection of the happy conjuncture of times and circumstances, under which our Republic assumed its rank among the Nations; The foundation of our Empire was not laid in the gloomy age of Ignorance and Superstition, but at an Epoch when the rights of mankind were better understood and more clearly defined, than at any former period, the researches of the human mind, after social happiness, have been carried to a great extent, the Treasures of knowledge, acquired by the labours of Philosophers, Sages and Legislatures, through a long succession of years, are laid open for our use, and their collected wisdom may be happily applied in the Establishment of our forms of Government; the free cultivation of Letters, the unbounded extension of Commerce, the progressive refinement of Manners, the growing liberality of sentiment… have had a meliorating influence on mankind and increased the blessings of Society. At this auspicious period, the United States came into existence as a Nation, and if their Citizens should not be completely free and happy, the fault will be entirely their own.[Circular to the States, 8 June 1783 – Writings 26:484–89]”
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“The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.”
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“Life is like a sandwich!Birth as one slice,and death as the other.What you put in-between the slices is up to you.Is your sandwich tasty or sour?Allan Rufus.org”
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