Counterintuitive actions prove we can trust real knowledge and do the opposite of what we feel makes sense.
True wisdom consists in two things: Knowledge of God and Knowledge of Self.
Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
All of our descriptive statements move within an often invisible network of value-categories, and indeed without such categories we would have nothing to say to each other at all. It is not just as though we have something called factual knowledge wh...
Authority is essential to society, but what we called in "transcendental" authority, with an executive ruler on top, depends on the ruler's understanding of equity. If he hasn't enough of such understanding, authority becomes a repressive legalism. L...
Ask someone else for advice but keep your knowledge to yourself.
Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.
Everyone lives bound by their own knowledge and awareness. They define that as reality; but knowledge and awareness are vage, and perhaps better called illusions.
In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred; it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect.
Where the quest for knowledge is relatively, and now almost absolutely, unrestrained, the public benefit will be great, especially where the certainty of the law ensures that knowledge is rewarded. This is exactly the combination that is the foundati...
The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love.
One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises.
Knowledge is not simply another commodity. On the contrary. Knowledge is never used up. It increases by diffusion and grows by dispersion.
When we think about the workplace, people think about hard skills being dominant, but they're not. The employer realizes knowledge will shift quickly, and there's a half-life to knowledge in this world.
Our civilization has evolved through the continuous adjustment of society to the stimulus of new knowledge.
Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.
Technical knowledge has now become an integral aspect of the Iranian psyche.
The true knowledge or science which exists nowhere but in the mind itself, has no other entity at all besides intelligibility; and therefore whatsoever is clearly intelligible, is absolutely true.
Acting requires a lot of discipline to go with the obsession. It's a path of knowledge, and of self-knowledge. Sometimes you get lost on the path. And then you find yourself again.
I think self-knowledge is the rarest trait in a human being.
Awareness is above intellect. Intellect is above speech. Speech is above knowledge. For knowledge in itself is just a name.
