Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.”
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.
Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.
You were not there for the beginning. You will not be there for the end. Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
Quality of life lies in knowledge, in culture. Values are what constitute true quality of life, the supreme quality of life, even above food, shelter and clothing.
Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
Ιnformation is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, and wisdom is not foresight. Each grows out of the other, and we need them all.
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
Fine art is knowledge made visible.
Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.
There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge: observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
The profession of film director can and should be such a high and precious one; that no man aspiring to it can disregard any knowledge that will make him a better film director or human being.” Read more at
Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
As we expand our knowledge of good books, we shrink the circle of men whose company we appreciate.
The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.
Words have a magical power. They can bring either the greatest happiness or deepest despair; they can transfer knowledge from teacher to student; words enable the orator to sway his audience and dictate its decisions. Words are capable of arousing the strongest emotions and prompting all men’s actions.
“We owe more to our illusions than to our knowledge”
There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge - that is everywhere.
Knowledge is power.
Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.
inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.
To live is nothing more than to come here to die, to be what we were before being born, but with apprenticeship, experience, knowledge of cause, and perhaps with will.
We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. The state in which we are is sinful, irrespective of guilt.
All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
Bitter, too, to be forced to acknowledge in one's heart how little love has to do with kindness.
Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.
The one who has knowledge, he won’t condemn.
Scientific knowledge advances haltingly and is stimulated by contention and doubt.
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
Happiness exists on earth, and it is won through prudent exercise of reason, knowledge of the harmony of the universe, and constant practice of generosity.
What transforms this world is — knowledge. Do you see what I mean? Nothing else can change anything in this world.
Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death
Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.
Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion and knowledge.
Self-knowledge reveals to the soul that its natural motion is not, if uninterrupted, in a straight line, but circular, as around some inner object, about a center, the point to which it owes its origin.”
Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.
Love, work, and knowledge are the wellsprings of our lives, they should also govern it.
To know how to dissimulate is the knowledge of kings.
Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.
“Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
Whoever acquires knowledge but does not practice it is as one who ploughs but does not sow.
The attitude of the men is equally worthy of admiration...there is a rush to be first when work is to be done, and the same desire to sacrifice selfish consideration to the success of the expedition...Fortune would be in a hard mood indeed if it allowed such a combination of knowledge, experience, ability, and enthusiasm to achieve nothing.
There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.
Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
Instinct is something which transcends knowledge.
New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.
There is nothing which can better deserve your patronage, than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.
“The knowledge that she would never be loved in return acted upon her ideas as a tide acts upon cliffs.”
Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
Men often fail to understand their own weaknesses, and their lack of self-knowledge can bring terrible disasters down on their own heads.