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Knowledge is the best eraser in the world for disharmony, distrust, despair, and the endless physical deficiencies of man.
I know more than I can express in words, and the little I can express would not have been expressed, had I not known more.
Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.
Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.
To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of eternal things; to knowledge, the rational knowledge of temporal things.
Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.
It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.
The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and one's knowledge of human life.
Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.
We are impressed and even daunted by the immense Universe to be explored. "What we know is a point to what we do not know."
To test a perfect theory with imperfect instruments did not impress the Greek philosophers as a valid way to gain knowledge.
The connection between our knowledge and the abyss of being is still real, and the explication must be not less magnificent.
For all the talk you hear about knowledge being such a wonderful thing, instinct is worth forty of it for real unerringness.
When everyone recognizes Jehovah's name, then everyone will be happy because everyone will know what to do and how to do it.
If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.
Be for ever a student. He and he alone is an old man who feels that he has learnt enough and has need for no more knowledge.
A fact is the end or last issue of spirit. The visible creation is the terminus or the circumference of the invisible world.
We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.
Do you remember how electrical currents and 'unseen waves' were laughed at? The knowledge about man is still in its infancy.
I keep six honest serving men (they taught me all i knew); Theirs names are What and Why and When And How And Where and Who.
Penetrating so many secrets, we cease to believe in the unknowable. But there it sits nevertheless, calmly licking its chops
But in the new (math) approach, the important thing is to understand what you're doing, rather than to get the right answer.
Keeping the commandments . . . is at once a demonstration of our intelligence, our knowledge, our character, and our wisdom.
My words have an origin. My deeds have a sovereign. Truly, because people do not understand this, they do not understand me.
We know life is futile. A man who considers that his life is of very wonderful importance is awfully close to a padded cell.
When I became an entrepreneur, I had the knowledge to develop and manage budgets, market products and review legal contracts.
Facts are all accidents. They all might have been different. They all may become different. They all may collapse altogether.
I do not believe there is anything useful which men can know with exactitude that they cannot know by arithmetic and algebra.
When you study natural science and the miracles of creation, if you don't turn into a mystic you are not a natural scientist.
I think the knowledge of where you come from gives you more of an affinity for understanding different cultures and learning.
Let no knowledge satisfy but that which lifts above the world, which weans from the world, which makes the world a footstool.
I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge; I am one who is fond of antiquity, and earnest in seeking it there.
The most dangerous silence is noise; noise keeps us from hearing what we need to hear or from speaking what we need to speak.
Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment.
But the jiva [living being] is endowed with ego and his knowledge is limited, whereas Ishwar is without ego and is omniscient.
I know you think you understand what you thought I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.
The more knowledge you've got, the more understanding you have, the better you are able to implement and pass it on to others.
My task was to show the psychologists that it is possible to apply physiological knowledge to the phenomena of psychical life.
I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.
Ignorance is a virus. Once it starts spreading it can only be cured by reason. For the sake of humanity, we must be that cure.
Decision making in a democracy depends above all on knowledge and not just the intel available to presidents and policymakers.
I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.
Testimony is personal knowledge, based upon the witness of the Holy Ghost, that certain facts of eternal significance are true.
Often, we are too slow to recognize how much and in what ways we can assist each other through sharing expertise and knowledge.
It is not so bad being ignorant if you are totally ignorant; the hard thing is knowing in some detail the reality of ignorance.
Knowledge is a collective enterprise. Without it understanding is impossible. Ignorance is too often a murderous vulnerability.
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
And I remember most of what I know that is good and true and lasting has come not from scholars but from minstrels and gypsies.
The seat of perfect contentment is in the head; for every individual is thoroughly satisfied with his own proportion of brains.
here is a great difference between knowing a thing and understanding it. You can know a lot and not really understand anything.