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Knowledge Quotes by Wendell Berry
- If we represent knowledge as a tree, we know that things that are divided are yet connected. We know that to observe the divisions and…
- In order to survive, a plurality of true communities would require not egalitarianism and tolerance but knowledge, an understanding of the necessity of local differences,…
- There's a world of difference . . . between that information to which we now presumably have access by way of computers, libraries, and the…
- The acquisition of knowledge always involves the revelation of ignorance-almost is the revelation of ignorance.
- But in fact as knowledge expands globally it is being lost locally. This is the paramount truth of the modern history of rural places everywhere…
- We are going to have to gather up the fragments of knowledge and responsibilities that have been turned over to governments, corporations, and specialists, and…
- Under the discipline of unity, knowledge and morality come together. No longer can we have that paltry 'objective' knowledge so prized by the academic specialists.…
- A community is the mental and spiritual condition of knowing that the place is shared, and that the people who share the place define and…
- To define knowledge as merely empirical is to limit one's ability to know; it enfeebles one's ability to feel and think.
- Want of imagination makes things unreal enough to be destroyed. By imagination I mean knowledge and love. I mean compassion. People of power kill children,…
- The difference between a path and a road is not only the obvious one. A path is little more than a habit that comes with…
More Knowledge Quotes
- We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that. — J. J. Abrams
- 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
- The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching. — Aristotle
- All men by nature desire knowledge. — Aristotle
- It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. — Aristotle
- Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day. — Karen Armstrong