Knowledge Quotes
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Nature has given us the seeds of knowledge, not knowledge itself.
Seneca the Younger
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The Bible contains more knowledge necessary to man in his present state than any other book in the world.
Benjamin Rush
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The inner meaning of history . . . involves speculation and an attempt to get at the truth, subtle explanation of the causes and origins of existing things, and deep knowledge of the how and why of events. History, therefore, is firmly rooted in philosophy. It deserves to be accounted a branch of philosophy.
Bob Irwin
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What makes knowledge automatic is what gets you to Carnegie Hall - practice, practice, practice.
Alison Gopnik
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Monks, one thing, if practiced and made much of, conduces to great thrill, great profit, great security after the toil, to mindfulness and self-possession, to the winning of knowledge and insight, to pleasant living in this very life, to the realization of the fruit of release by knowledge. What is that one thing: It is mindfulness centered on the body.
Gautama Buddha
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Knowledge being to be had only of visible and certain truth, error is not a fault of our knowledge, but a mistake of our judgment, giving assent to that which is not true.
John Locke
Nazareth
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I could justify violence only in this extreme case, to save the last living knowledge of Buddhism itself.
Dalai Lama
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I need to challenge myself and to try to improve my knowledge. That's my goal.
Adam Conover
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Abundance of knowledge does not teach men to be wise.
Heraclitus
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The Bible, when not read in schools, is seldom read in any subsequent period of life...The Bible...should be read in our schools in preference to all other books because it contains the greatest portion of that kind of knowledge which is calculated to produce private and public happiness.
Benjamin Rush
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Healing, he told us, depends on experiential knowledge: You can be fully in charge of your life only if you can acknowledge the reality of your body, in all its visceral dimensions.
Bessel van der Kolk
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But the fundamental reason for taking the time to read is because books (good books, that is; books that matter) are the best aid to extended thought and imaginative reflection we have invented. In our own time, this is particularly important, as an antidote to the segmentation of thought encouraged by digital technologies. Cruising among the infinite quanta of data offered on the internet is fine for finding out information; but the disparate fragments we look at on our various screens rarely cohere into continuous thought, or a deepening of knowledge.
Eva Hoffman
