All Quotes By Tag: Knowledge

“Education means breaking free.”

“It is worth pointing out that feeling things (which usually means feeling them painfully) is at some level linked to the acquisition of knowledge.”

“And when I think of my few acquisitions, I have to admit how fiercely the autodidact struggles for her education, and how incomplete that education remains. How illusory is any accumulation of knowledge!”

“The feeling has Knowledge; whereas, the knowledge has not the feeling. Similarly, an academic evaluates, with knowledge, while an ordinary reader praises, with the feeling.”

“Raising a daughter who is aware and knowledgeable of the world so that she can navigate through it with her eyes open, rather than closed, can be one of her best protection. Knowledge is power. – Raising A Strong Daughter: What Fathers Should Know by Finlay Gow JD and Kailin Gow MA”

“My secret is public knowledge, and the public’s knowledge is my secret.”

“La educación les permite a los humanos alcanzar su potencial mental y físico tanto en la vida persona como en la vida social.”

“They say if you don’t know your history, you’re doomed to repeat it. Unfortunately, most Americans can’t even figure out what’s going on in the present.”

“From my father I had learned that books were to be either adored or exiled. Books that were of God—books written by the Mormon prophets or the Founding Fathers—were not to be studied so much as cherished, like a thing perfect in itself. I had been taught to read the words of men like Madison as a cast into which I ought to pour the plaster of my own mind, to be reshaped according to the contours of their faultless model. I read them to learn what to think, not how to think for myself. Books that were not of God were banished; they were a danger, powerful and irresistible in their cunning. To write my essay I had to read books differently, without giving myself over to either fear or adoration. Because Burke had defended the British monarchy, Dad would have said he was an agent of tyranny. He wouldn’t have wanted the book in the house. There was a thrill in trusting myself to read the words. I felt a similar thrill in reading Madison, Hamilton and Jay, especially on those occasions when I discarded their conclusions in favor of Burke’s, or when it seemed to me that their ideas were not really different in substance, only in form. There were wonderful suppositions embedded in this method of reading: that books are not tricks, and that I was not feeble.”

“It is important to remember that to read means to read the right and good books.”

“Long hours spent in the study of any text will reveal inner, unseen contours, an abstract architecture. This is as true of sacred books as of those poems written in pursuit of courtly or earthly love, or even of language itself. The ancient Mosaic law had accommodated this insight to the disadvantage of the surface layer, of images, while the Roman Catholic Church, akin to the preliterate cultural forms from which it in part arose, allows for the existence of a mystical understanding and experience of these abstractions. The careful scholar cannot but help but become aware of the conflict: when one speaks of the word, or Word, what is one truly speaking of? Who is the architect, man, and—or—a—God? Attempts to apprehend this new reality, these tensions, went initially by the names of philosophy, theology, science. What is it to know deeply? Is knowledge not always a form of power that, taken too far, cannot be turned against itself?”

“I understood for the first time that I didn’t understand what I thought I understood”

“We are closest to real knowledge when we are closest to understanding our own bodies.”

“We are closest to real knowledge when we’re closest to understanding our own bodies.”

“If you intend to evaluate how your knowledge is applicable, transfer it to others.”