knowledge Quotes That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life

1. - Никогда, Робби, не стремись знать слишком много! Чем меньше знаешь, тем проще живется. Знание делает человека свободным, но и несчастным. Давай выпьем за наивность, за глупость и все, что к ним относится - за любовь, за веру в будущее, за мечты о счастье - за божественную глупость, за потерянный рай... Three Comrades

2. ... Halit Ayarcı çok terbiyeli bir şekilde esnedi:- Yine aynı mesele... dedi. Daha doğrusu hep aynı mesele! Aziz dostum, siz şifa kabul etmez bir gayrimemnunsunuz... Bu işlerde bilmek ikinci derecede kalır. Yapmak vardır, sadece yapmak... Sonra kendi kendine konuşur gibi ilâve etti:- Bilgi bizi geciktirir. Zaten ne sonu, ne de gayesi vardır. Mesele yapmak ve yaratmaktadır. Bilselerdi, bilselerdi... Fakat bilselerdi bunu yapamazlardı. Bu heyecana, bu icada, bu kendiliğinden bulmağa erişemezlerdi. Bilgileri buna mâni olurdu. Kızınız bu geceyi yarattı. Ne ile? Yaratma kabiliyetiyle... Çünkü yaratmak, yaşamanın ta kendisidir. Biz yaşayan, yaşamayı tercih eden insanlarız. Siz istediğiniz kadar somurtun!... Saatleri Ayarlama Enstitüsü

3. ... I was finding things out as usual; and a nasty dangerous business it was.

4. ... the divine knowing - what the Father knows, and what the Word says in response to that knowing, and what the Spirit broods upon under the speaking of the Word - all that eternal intellectual activity isn't just daydreaming. It's the cause of everything that is. God doesn't find out about creation; he knows it into being. His knowing has hair on it. It is an effective act. What he knows, is. What he thinks, by the very fact of his thinking, jumps from no-thing into thing. He never thought of anything that wasn't. Between Noon & Three: Romance, Law & the Outrage of Grace

5. ... the proper self-knowledge and self-love of every created thing is ipso facto a participation in the knowledge and love of God. The entire universe moves by desire for the Highest Good simply because every part of it loves what God loves - namely, its own being. Between Noon & Three: Romance, Law & the Outrage of Grace

6. ....a good book can teach you about the world and about yourself. You learn more than how to read better; you also learn more about life. You become wiser. Not just more knowledgeable - books that provide nothing but information can produce that result. But wiser, in the sense that you are more deeply aware of the great and enduring truths of human life. How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading

7. ...although our age far surpasses all previous ages in knowledge, there has been no correlative increase in wisdom.

8. ...he that knows all that Learning ever writ, knows only this--that he knows nothing yet.[Antonius Diogenes, trans. by Zeno Ninis] Cloud Cuckoo Land

9. ...hiding what you know is sometimes as important as knowing it... The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business

10. ...I like stories very much, the priest said. They help me understand myself better. Love Begins in Winter: Five Stories

11. ...I sense that stepping into the light is also a powerful metaphor for consciousness, for the birth of the knowing mind, for the simple and yet momentous coming of the sense of self into the world of the mental. The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness

12. ...I would train myself to make my work so mechanical that I could concentrate much of my energy on listening and watching. My knowledge, I believed, would still the voices of despair inside me. Capitol Hill In Black And White

13. …if catching fish is your only objective, you are either new to the game or too narrowly focused on measurable results. Familiar Waters: A lifetime of fly fishing Montana

14. ...it is interesting to consider research on mastery versus performance goals in learning (Dweck 1999), discussed more in chapter 5. People with mastery orientations, in brief, are people who are interested in learning in order to master a topic. They tend to like challenges, and they persist at them. People with performance goals, in contrast, tend to like to do easy jobs that make them look good. They want to be judged positively. Although these two different orientations appear to characterize two different people, the same person can adopt different orientations under different environmental conditions. And it ends up that the particular conditions under which people are more apt to adopt mastery goals bear striking similarities to Montessori environments (Ames, 1992, see chapter 5). Montessori: The Science Behind the Genius

15. ...knowledge imprisons you. You cannot escape it. What you know you cannot unknow. That's why knowledge is dangerous. Learning will redefine your world, irreversibly. The Good Psychologist

16. ...knowledge would not necessarily serve them, nor would it make them happy. There was a chance it would instead throw light on visions they did not want to see. Swimming Home

17. ...on the other hand, sometimes knowing leads to serenity.

18. ...on the other hand, sometimes knowing leads to serenity.

19. ...power is synonymous with its own corruption, which is to say power equals corruption – and in the same way, truth is synonymous with its own transgression. Which means that in order to see the whole truth, you need to transgress it. In order to see truth in its entirety you have to get some distance, just as in order to see all of Earth, you have to travel thousands of kilometers into space. Το καλό θα 'ρθει από τη θάλασσα

20. ...the historian has been trained in a society in which education and knowledge are put forward as technical problems of excellence and not as tools for contending social classes, races, nations... A People's History of the United States: American Beginnings to Reconstruction

21. ...to her all books were the same and, as with her subjects, she felt a duty to approach them without prejudice...Lauren Bacall, Winifred Holtby, Sylvia Plath - who were they? Only be reading could she find out. The Uncommon Reader

22. ...wearing a turban of yellow, signifying knowledge, and a robe of purple, portraying purity and activity, Virchand Gandhi of Bombay delivered a lecture on the religions of India....

23. ...Writings can be stolen, or changed, or used for evil purposes. But isn't the risk worth taking? The more people who share knowledge, the greater safeguard for it. Isn't there more danger in ignorance than knowledge? The Arkadians

24. ...znanje u nekoj tački počinje da te ograničava, a neznanje - nikad. Zajedno sami

25. ..perhaps indeed there exists but a single intelligence of which everyone is a co-tenant, an intelligence towards which each of us from out of his own separate body turns his eyes, as int a theatre where, if everyone has his own separate seat, there is on the other hand but a single stage. Within A Budding Grove

26. ..read widely because almost nothing has been everywhere applied. Census

27. […] marginile unei cărţi nu sunt niciodată clar şi riguros trasate: dincolo de titlu, de primele rânduri şi de punctul final, mai presus de configuraţia sa internă şi de forma care îi conferă autonomie, ea se află prinsă într-un sistem de trimiteri la alte cărţi, la alte texte, la alte fraze: este un nod într-o reţea. The Archaeology of Knowledge and The Discourse on Language

28. [A] great deal of what we believe we do not know firsthand; instead we have faith in the knowledge of specialists. Reason, Faith, and Revolution: Reflections on the God Debate

29. [Bailey] had told me once that "all knowledge was spendable currency, depending on the market. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

30. [O]ut of books / He taught me all the ignorance of men, / And how God laughs in heaven when any man / Says 'Here I'm learned; this, I understand; / In that, I am never caught at fault or doubt. Aurora Leigh