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It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand, and what those things are.
Søren Kierkegaard1813–1855The Journals of Søren Kierkegaard, 1840s, 1847
Without love the acquisition of knowledge only increases confusion and leads to self-destruction.
Jiddu Krishnamurti1895–1986Education and the Significance of Life (1953)
- Love
Truth cannot be sought; it comes to you. You can go after only what is known. When the mind is not tortured by the known, by the effects of the known, then only can truth reveal itself.
Jiddu Krishnamurti1895–1986First Talk in Rajahmundry (20 November 1949), The Collected Works, Vol. VI, p. 5
- Truth & Lies
He who knows does not speak; he who speaks does not know.
LLaozi580–501 BCTao Te Ching, Ch. 56
- Talking
All types of knowledge, ultimately mean self knowledge.
Bruce Lee1940–1973Bruce Lee: The Lost Interview (1971)
Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.
Bruce Lee1940–1973Striking Thoughts (2000), p. 46
- Character
That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you’ve understood all your life, but in a new way.
Doris Lessing1919–2013The Four-Gated City (1969)
- Education
Virtue is harder to be got than knowledge of the world; and, if lost in a young man, is seldom recovered.
John Locke1632–1704Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693), Sec. 70
- Virtue
The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it, into which a young gentleman should be enter’d by degrees, as he can bear it; and the earlier the better, so he be in safe and skillful hands to guide him.
John Locke1632–1704Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693), Sec. 94
- Education
The necessity of believing without knowledge, nay often upon very slight grounds, in this fleeting state of action and blindness we are in, should make us more busy and careful to inform ourselves than constrain others.
John Locke1632–1704An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689), Book IV, Ch. 16, sec. 4
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.
H. P. Lovecraft1890–1937The Call of Cthulhu (1926)
- Thinking
The greatest forces lie in the region of the uncomprehended.
George MacDonald1824–1905The Fantastic Imagination (1893)
A popular Government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power knowledge gives.
James Madison1751–1836Letter to W.T. Barry (4 August 1822), in The Writings of James Madison (1910) edited by Gaillard Hunt, Vol. 9, p. 103
- Government
Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.
Horace Mann1796–1859Lectures on Education (1855), Lecture 1
- Power
To know how much there is that we do not know, is one of the most valuable parts of our attainments; for such knowledge becomes both a lesson of humility and a stimulus to exertion.
Horace Mann1796–1859Lectures on Education (1855), Lecture 6