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“There are genuine mysteries in the world that mark the limits of human knowing and thinking. Wisdom is fortified, not destroyed, by understanding its limitations. Ignorance does not make a fool as ...”
“Knowledge without application is simply knowledge. Applying the knowledge to ones life is wisdom and that is the ultimate virtue”
“Logic is immaturity weaving its nets of gossamer wherewith it aims to catch the behemoth of knowledge. Logic is a crutch for the cripple, but a burden for the swift of foot and a greater burden sti...”
“Wenn du weit, behaupte, dass du es weit. Und wenn du etwas nicht weit, gib zu, dass du es nicht weit. Das ist Wissen.”
“I see at last that all the knowledgeI wrung from the darknessthat the darkness flung meIs worthless as ignorance: nothing comes from nothing,The darkness from the darkness. Pain comes from the dark...”
“a problem well put is half solved.”
“If it's knowledge and wisdom you want, then seek out the company of those who do real work for an honest purpose.”
“Stress the right of the individual to select only what he desires to know, to use any knowledge as he wishes, that he himself owns what he has learned.”
“The function of a nutrient is to become transmuted, not to leave unaltered traces.”
“Of course, being brave does not mean running towards danger.”
“Anyone can put a price on knowledge - schools and universities do it all the time, but no one can put a price on wisdom for it can neither be bought nor sold. It should be given and accepted with n...”
“An hypocrite with his mouth destroyeth his neighbour: but through knowledge shall the just be delivered.”
“Who sees the many and not the one, wanders on from death to death.Even by the mind this truth is to be learned: there are not many but only one. Who sees variety and not the unity wanders on from d...”
“...[R]eal wisdom is the property of God, and... human wisdom has little or no value.”
“The more you realize, the more you realize there is nothing to realize. The idea that there's somewhere we have got to get to, and something we have to attain, is our basic delusion.”
“He often said that knowledge is the brightest jewel in a queens crown. And if my mother was about, she would never fail to add, when tempered by wisdom. Knowledge without comprehension is worse tha...”
“A little learning is a dangerous thing.Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian Spring;There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain,and drinking largely sobers us again.”
“No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.”
“The distinctive features of the world's civilisations are not simply and solely the giraffe and the city of Rome, as the children may perhaps have been led to imagine on the first evening, but also...”
“Words, they say, are the food of minds. But, like other foods, they can do little by themselves.”
