Quotes about Knowledge

When the Master entered the great temple he asked about everything. Someone said, 'Who will say that this son of the man of Zou knows about ritual? When he enters the temple, he asks about everything'. The Master heard of it and said, 'This is the ritual'.

He said : Not to know the decree is to be without the means of being a proper man. 2. Not to know the rites is to be without means to construct. 3. Not to know words is to be without the fluid needful to understand men.

lesson about knowledge? When you know a thing, maintain that you know it; and when you do not, acknowledge your ignorance. This is characteristic of knowledge.

You do not understand even life. How can you understand death?

I was not born with wisdom. I love the ancient teachings and have worked hard to attain to their level.

To know what is first and what is last will lead near to what is taught in the Great Learning.

Deep in each man is the knowledge that something knows of his existence. Something knows, and cannot be fled nor hid from.

Just remember that the things you put into your head are there forever, he said.

But I will tell you Squire that having read even a few dozen books in common is a force more binding than blood.

Men do not turn from God so easily. Not so easily. Deep in each man is the knowledge that something knows of his existence. Something knows, and cannot e fled nor hid from. To imagine otherwise is to imagine the unspeakable. It was never that this man ceased to believe in God. No. It was rather that he came to believe terrible things of him.

Where all is known, no narrative is possible.

He lay in the dark thinking of all the things he did not know about his father and he realized that the father he knew was all the father he would ever know.