All Quotes By Tag: Knowledge

“Names and knowledge change, the way the turningworld brings color or deep shadows, without a soundeven as soft as the twist of a key in a lock.”

“When God asks a question, it is always rhetorical.”

“If don’t want to be eliminated, you must be innovative. Update your knowledge and you won’t be outmoded.”

“Writing in the first person helps to make clear the author’s role in constructing rather than discovering the story/knowledge.”

“Personal life, expression, knowledge, and history advance obliquely, and not directly, toward ends or toward concepts. That which is sought too deliberately is not obtained.”

“Worldly ambition inhibits true learning. Ask me. I know. A young man in a hurry is nearly uneducable: He knows what he wants and where he’s headed; when it comes to looking back or entertaining heretical thoughts, he has neither the time nor the inclination. All that counts is that he is going somewhere. Only as ambition wanes does education become a possibility.”

“Your goal must be divided into smallest measurable and visible period of time- a day, so you know exactly what to do everyday”

“Knowledge shall set the mind free.”

“Truth in the human world, is constructed, defined and then reconstructed by the human self.”

“Know thy self, and the world will be thy oyster!”

“Feed two birds with one crumb.”

“I’ve tried to solve problems to the best of my knowledge. Many times I was successful, but sometimes I also failed. And now I finally understand – that’s life.”

“They had never previously been obliged to engage in such mental effort, and it gave them headaches. However, although the aim of their quest forever eluded them, they ended up finding its outline. If not the thing itself, then at least its shadow.They debated at length on all that referred to it and, to their great surprise, realised that they were already perfectly aware of what they had been looking for. They had always been privy to the main point, the first principle, of the pyramid’s raison-d’être, except that it had lain in their minds in a pre-verbal, indeed in an unthinking state. The papyri of the archives had only draped it in words and in meaning. Insofar as a shadow can be draped.”

“The belief in their actions can mend constellations. The ambition in their thirst for knowledge can both create and destroy.”

“I know what I know and what I don’t know… I will find out.”