knowledge

Knowledge is a Bed of Roses; for Every Beautiful Flower, there are a Dozen Thorns to Match

Every creature was designed to serve a purpose. Learn from animals for they are there to teach you the way of life. There is a wealth of knowledge that is openly accessible in nature. Our ancestors knew this and embraced the natural cures found in the bosoms of the earth. Their classroom was nature. They studied the lessons to be learned from animals. Much of human behavior can be explained by watching the wild beasts around us. They are constantly teaching us things about ourselves and the way of the universe, but most people are too blind to watch and listen.

Inner Knowledge -- You want to become wise in one lesson: First become a real human being.

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 still for the wise.

While wisdom dictates the need for education, education does not necessarily make one wise.

But perhaps there are in us forces other than mind and heart, other even than the senses - mysterious forces which take hold of us in the moments when the others are asleep; and perhaps it was such forces that Melchior had found in the depths of those pale eyes which had looked at him so timidly one evening when he had accosted the girl on the bank of the river, and had sat down beside her in the reeds - without knowing why - and had given her his hand.

We are no longer in the dispensation of age and experience. We are in the era of knowledge and information. Information leads a true leader and a true leader leads others.

originality and a feeling of one's own dignity are achieved only through work and struggle.

Seek knowledge, getting as much of it as you can and meditate on it, then you will become ahappy possessor of wisdom.

We are all small-minded people, creeping about the earth grubbing for our own advantage and making the very mistakes for which we want to humiliate our neighbors.

There is no greater power than the one others do not believe you possess.

Knowledge is as infinite as the universe. The man who claims to know all only reveals to all that he really knows nothing.

A library implies an act of faith which generations, still in darkness hid, sign in their night in witness of the dawn." (1872)

Knowledge is that possession that no misfortune can destroy, no authority can revoke, and no enemy can control. This makes knowledge the greatest of all freedoms.

If you hold a cat by the tail, you learn things you can't learn any other way.--Mark Twain

The most crucial problem with intellectual learning is that it receives the unknown on the grounds of the known.

We don't really know anything. Those who accept this are more likely to learn something.

People are unlearning certain things, and they do well, provided that, while unlearning them they learn this: There is no vacuum in the human heart. Certain demolitions take place, and it is well that they do, but on condition that they are followed by reconstructions.