Can we have genuine knowledge of space without ever…

“Finding ourselves in a universe that seems bent on destroying us, we quickly discover, both as individuals and as societies, that it is a…

— Sam Harris

All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.

— Mao Zedong

“Indeed, for anyone who has a genuine knowledge of God, praise is the only appropriate attitude in which to live. It is the only…

— Dallas Willard

When speaking of a "body of knowledge" or of "the results of research," e.g., we tacitly assign the same cognitive status to inherited knowledge…

— Leo Strauss

I've always been a believer in research. It's great to have an instinctual human reaction to a character, too, of course, but it has…

— Chiwetel Ejiofor

We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I would rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent than in the extent of my powers and dominion.

— Alexander the Great

“I never knew any man who had once tasted the sweetness of experimental knowledge, that ever afterward fasted after ye Vapour garlick and onions…

— Carl Zimmer

One of the deepest and strangest of all human moods is the mood which will suddenly strike us perhaps in a garden at night,…

— Anonymous

An enlightened awareness is within each one of us, right at this moment. This enlightened awareness is truly unborn and marvellously illuminating; and everything…

— Bankei Yotaku

If we will not interfere with our thought, but will act entirely, or see how the thing stands in God, we know the particular…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

But I already saw no great difference between the psyche and spirituality. To amass knowledge without becoming wise is not my idea of progress…

— M. Scott Peck

Nothing is so powerful as an insight into human nature... what compulsions drive a man, what instincts dominate his action. If you know these…

— William Bernbach

For successful education there must always be a certain freshness in the knowledge dealt with. It must be either new in itself or invested…

— Alfred North Whitehead

“Knowledge without conscience is but the ruin of the soul.”

— Rabelaise