Quotes Tagged "knowing"

Open-mindedness simplifies knowledge acquisition.

Rather than write about what you know, you told us, write about what you see. Assume that you know very little and that you'll never know much until you learn how to see.

Our clawing, grasping attempts at answering every question and making sense of every mystery in life will end up in failure. Instead, God invites us to take a tour of the mad, mad world around us, to see ourselves as one mystery among the many, and to trust him that it all makes sense in some strange, cosmic way. In doing so, we discover that the presence of mystery in the world is an invitation to wonder, and a world without mystery is a world of despair. So go ahead; embrace the mystery.

He's going for wisdom but the real wisdom is knowing there sometimes isn't any.

Knowledge, self confident knowledge, which is sure that it is faultless, is faith.

People used to build great libraries to symbolize man’s quest for knowledge, now we have the Internet which is both more powerful and wonderful. The men who used to get their information from the library were considered scholars but the men who get their information from the Internet are considered idiots, or worse, thieves.

Beliefs are a consequence of what has been instituted. Knowing is a result of what has been experienced. Adopt what's real and moderate what feels.

An educated person is she or he who knows where or how to acquire knowledge.

Alas! how terrible it is to know, Where no good comes of knowing!

A good man shares his knowledge selflessly with everyone.

We ought to, as human beings, have the courage to seek a collective “truth” that benefits our species the most, and to accept that all of our doctrines and beliefs may just be incomplete. That we don’t know it all and that perhaps we never will. That others like us may have something to teach us, and we may have something to contribute to their communities. That communities, types of people, are divisions we’ve created for ourselves. That for all of what we know, the knowledge and wisdom that we have gathered in the few millennia may be a small fraction of what is there to be discovered, understood and applied.

There is a huge difference between thinking we know something and actually knowing something.

If I knew then what I know now I guess it'd make no difference; Fate's sure in the way somehow. What's important is the essence. Although we still have free will We also have a whole lot to deal.

A wise man is humble, knowing he actually doesn't know much.

You have to feel to feel it. You need to know to know it better than anything else in the world. And that is love.

كم هو رائع ومثير للمشاعر والأحاسيس أن يكون المرء أول من يصل إلى شيء بعينه ظل حتى لحظة وصوله مجهولاً غير معروف

Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.

Knowing reality means constructing systems of transformations that correspond, more or less adequately, to reality.

Knowing very little about a band only adds to the allure.

It occurred to me that at one point it was like I had two diseases - one was Alzheimer's, and the other was knowing I had Alzheimer's.