Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom. 758
Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend. 822
Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance. 763
Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life. 2.04K
I’m a student of world religion, so to me, it’s hugely important to have knowledge and to understand what people are doing. 2.4K
I think I have a duty as a recovering guy to help, to make my knowledge of what I went through accessible. 2.1K
It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge. 645
The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind. 812
Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else’s skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too. 792
A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor. 728
What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child. 744
Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love. 734
Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom. 773
Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it. 934
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science. 2.13K
In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it’s more dangerous to lose than to win. 675
