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.
Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.
What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.
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.
The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.
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.
The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism.
I think I have a duty as a recovering guy to help, to make my knowledge of what I went through accessible.
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.
Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.
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.
Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom.
I'm a student of world religion, so to me, it's hugely important to have knowledge and to understand what people are doing.
Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.
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.
We did it Disneyland, in the knowledge that most of the people I talked to thought it would be a financial disaster - closed and forgotten within the first year.
The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.
Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying.
We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.
A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance.
Do not share the knowledge with which you have been blessed with everyone in general, as you do with some people in particular and know that there are some men in whom Allah, may He he glorified, has placed hidden secrets, which they are forbidden to reveal.
There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God.
God had brought me to my knees and made me acknowledge my own nothingness, and out of that knowledge I had been reborn. I was no longer the centre of my life and therefore I could see God in everything.
Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.
No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.
The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.
Knowledge about life is one thing effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.
It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body.
Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.
Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.
Checking the results of a decision against its expectations shows executives what their strengths are, where they need to improve, and where they lack knowledge or information.
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
Anyone who thinks that the vice-president can take a position independent of the president of his administration simply has no knowledge of politics or government. You are his choice in a political marriage, and he expects your absolute loyalty.
Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.
He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.
Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.
It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.
Universities exist to transmit knowledge and understanding of ideas and values to students not to provide entertainment for spectators or employment for athletes.