“A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance.”
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“Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.”
“Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only pain we obey.”
“It is now common knowledge that the average American gains 7 pounds between Thanksgiving and New Year's Day.”
“Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.”
“Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.”
“Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated.”
“The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.”
“Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.”
“The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.”
“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.”
“Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.”
“If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?”
“Knowledge is proud that it knows so much wisdom is humble that it knows no more.”
“Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.”
“Knowledge is not eating, and we cannot expect to devour and possess what we mean. Knowledge is recognition of something absent it is a salutation, not an embrace.”
“When you deal with a person who's experiencing dementia, you can see where they're struggling with knowledge. You can see what they forget completely, what they forget but they know what they once knew. You can tell how they're trying to remember.”
“I think a lot of people, even Christians, are willing to be satisfied with gaining lots and lots of biblical knowledge - and many people go to Bible studies and don't realize it isn't enough to know what's right, it's applying the information and the knowledge that you have.”
“Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.”
“Sin, guilt, neurosis they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.”
“What does mysticism really mean? It means the way to attain knowledge. It's close to philosophy, except in philosophy you go horizontally while in mysticism you go vertically.”
“I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.”
“In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.”
“If in preaching the gospel you substitute your knowledge of the way of salvation for confidence in the power of the gospel, you hinder people from getting to reality.”