All Quotes By Tag: Knowledge

“The books you have read and the knowledge and inspiration you have gained can never be taken away from you.”

“He often said that knowledge is the brightest jewel in a queen’s crown. And if my mother was about, she would never fail to add, ‘when tempered by wisdom. Knowledge without comprehension is worse than ignorance.”

“فكرت في أن الشجرة المحرمة لم تكن شجرة المعرفة بل شجرة الأحلام، وحاولت أن أكتشف الصلة بين الأحلام والمعرفة، كلاهما واعد يشعرنا بالنهم، والمعرفة وليدة حلم طموح. كانت هناك صلات بين الاثنين، وفي النهاية قررت أن أكتفي بالمعرفة وأتوقف عن الأحلام، فلربما أكون جشعاً إذا ما رغبت في أن أمتلك الإثنين معاً.”

“If I knew then what I know now I guess it’d make no difference; Fate’s sure in the way somehow. What’s important is the essence. Although we still have free will We also have a whole lot to deal.”

“It’s hard to know what’s right in this life,’ she said. ‘We do what we can, but what we really need is mercy. Do you know who taught me that?’ A grin. ‘You.”

“Only the learned read old books, and… now… they are of all men the least likely to acquire wisdom by doing so. …[G]reat scholars are now as little nourished by the past as the most ignorant mechanic who holds that “history is bunk…” [for] …when a learned man is presented with any statement in an ancient author, the one question he never asks is whether it is true. He asks who influenced the ancient writer, and how far the statement is consistent with what he said in other books, and what phase in the writer’s development, or in the general history of thought, it illustrates, and how it affected later writers, and how often it has been misunderstood (specially by the learned man’s colleagues) and what the general course of criticism on it has been for the last ten years, and what is the “present state of the question.” To regard the ancient writer as a possible source of knowledge-to anticipate that what he said could possibly modify your thoughts or your behavior-this would be rejected as unutterably simple-minded. … [Therefore, even though] learning makes a free commerce between the ages… every generation [is cut] off from all others… [and] …characteristic errors of one [are not] corrected by the characteristic truths of another.”

“The more you realize, the more you realize there is nothing to realize. The idea that there’s somewhere we have got to get to, and something we have to attain, is our basic delusion.”

“I would like to think of my ‘ignorance’ less as a personal failing and more as a massive cultural trend, an example of doubling, of psychic numbing, that characterizes the end of the millennium. If we can’t act on knowledge, then we can’t survive without ignorance.”

“Sufism,” according to the Sufi, “is an adventure in living, necessary adventure.”

“The Lord commands us to learn and discover all we can in this life. There’s nothing wrong with wanting to know the mysteries of outer space or the latent powers of the mind. The problem comes when we desire to use that knowledge for our own gratification, rather than to build the kingdom of God.”

“The Lord commands us to learn and discover all we can in this life. There’s nothing wrong with wanting to know the mysteries of outer space or the latent powers of the mind. The problem comes when we desire to use that knowledge for our own gratification, rather than to build the kingdom of God… It’s an unwise habit to use knowledge to further personal ends. Truth should never be used as a means to make us prisoners. It was meant to make us free.”

“You have a lot to explore beyond this cottage if you want to know everything about the world. Explore until your heart is full, Belle. And then explore some more.”

“The commencement of God’s emanation stars from the physical sheath. Life-power of the emanated God from the body undergoes transformations in His sportive forms in five sheaths or seven plans. Then follows the attainment of the Supreme Knowledge. The Ascent ends here. The Descent starts now and knowledge of ‘I-am-not-but-thou’ prevails.”

“Real education is never acquisition of knowledge but training of character.”

“What is knowledge, if it does to shape our conduct?”