Quotes on “knowledge”

I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.

Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in.

I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith.

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

No one knows anything, really. It's all rented, or borrowed.

Write what you know. That should leave you with a lot of free time.

What an author doesn't know could fill a book.

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.

I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.

I have always thirsted for knowledge, I have always been full of questions.

I definitely learned a lesson this time. I know that I can be broken. I am not as tough as I thought. I see it now. At this point, it's the only thing good that came out of all of this. I know myself better now and know what I have to do.

Her reputation for reading a great deal hung about her like the cloudy envelope of a goddess in an epic.

We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.

Doubt … is an illness that comes from knowledge and leads to madness.

The surest way of concealing from others the boundaries of one's own knowledge is not to overstep them.

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.

You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you have lost something.

To force oneself to believe and to accept a thing without understanding is political, and not spiritual or intellectual.