Quotes about Knowledge

Take away the paradox from a thinker and you have a professor.

All essential knowledge relates to existence, or only such knowledge as has an essential relationship to existence is essential knowledge.

People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.

No one will know who we are... until we now who we are! We will be able to go anywhere until we know where we are!

My black brothers and sisters—no one will know who we are…until we know who we are! We never will be able to go anywhere until we know where we are!

I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

I am not educated, nor am I an expert in any particular field but I am sincere, and my sincerity is my credentials

In the life of man, his time is but a moment, his being an incessant flux, his senses a dim rushlight, his body a prey of worms, his soul an unquiet eddy, his fortune dark, and his fame doubtful. In short, all that is of the body is as coursing waters, all that is of the soul as dreams and vapours; life a warfare, a brief sojourning in an alien land;and after repute, oblivion. Where, then, can man find the power to guide and guard his steps? In one thing and one alone: the love of knowledge.

For thou art born a mere slave, to thy senses and brutish affections;" destitute without teaching of all true knowledge and sound reason. 28.

He that knoweth not what the world is, knoweth not where he himself is. And he that knoweth not what the world was made for, cannot possibly know either what are the qualities, or what is the nature of the world.

He blind, who cannot see with the eyes of his understanding.

Where is the harm or surprise in the ignorant behaving as the ignorant do?