Quotes about Knowledge

To look wise is quite as good as understanding a thing, and very much easier.

Learn as if you were not reaching your goal and as though you were scared of missing it

Learning without thinking is useless. Thinking without learning is dangerous.

You can force the people to obey; you cannot force them to understand.

There are those who act without knowing; I will have none of this. To hear a lot, choose the good, and follow it, to see a lot and learn to recognize it: this is next knowledge.

When the Master entered the great temple he asked about everything. Someone said, 'Who will say that this son of the man of Zou knows about ritual? When he enters the temple, he asks about everything'. The Master heard of it and said, 'This is the ritual'.

He said : Not to know the decree is to be without the means of being a proper man. 2. Not to know the rites is to be without means to construct. 3. Not to know words is to be without the fluid needful to understand men.

lesson about knowledge? When you know a thing, maintain that you know it; and when you do not, acknowledge your ignorance. This is characteristic of knowledge.

You do not understand even life. How can you understand death?

I was not born with wisdom. I love the ancient teachings and have worked hard to attain to their level.

To know what is first and what is last will lead near to what is taught in the Great Learning.

Deep in each man is the knowledge that something knows of his existence. Something knows, and cannot be fled nor hid from.