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Knowledge Quotes by Erich Fromm
- To respect a person is not possible without knowing him; care and responsibility would be blind if they were not guided by knowledge.
- While we teach knowledge, we are losing that teaching which is the most important one for human development: the teaching which can only be given…
- Care and responsibility are constituent elements of love, but without respect for and knowledge of the beloved person, love deteriorates into domination and possessiveness.
- The only way of full knowledge lies in the act of love; this act transcends thought, it transcends words. It is the daring plunge into…
- Faith is not a weak form of belief or knowledge; it is not faith in this or that; faith is the conviction about the not…
- Love is the only way of knowledge, which in the act of union answers my quest. In the act of loving, of giving myself, in…
- Modern man has transformed himself into a commodity; he experiences his life energy as an investment with which he should make the highest profit, considering…
- Is love an art? Then it requires knowledge and effort.
- Is love an art? Then it requires knowledge and effort. Love is not a spontaneous feeling, a thing that you fall into, but is something…
- We may know ourselves, and yet even with all the efforts we make, we do not know ourselves. We know our fellowman, and yet we…
- Beyond the element of giving, the active characteristic of love becomes evident in the fact that it always implies certain basic elements, common to all…
- Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with…
- I believe that love is the main key to open the doors to the "growth" of man. Love and union with someone or something outside…
More Knowledge Quotes
- We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that. — J. J. Abrams
- The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching. — Aristotle
- Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of… — Aristophanes
- Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we… — Aristotle
- Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach. — Aristotle
- All men by nature desire knowledge. — Aristotle
- Salvation means knowing the truth. We do not become anything; we are what we are. Salvation [comes] by faith and not by… — Swami Vivekananda
- Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. — Marcus Aurelius