Quotes about Knowledge
I hate knowing about illness. Whenever I read a medical book, I immediately start to get all the symptoms.
— Paulo Coelho
What is a master? I would say that he is not someone who teaches something, but someone who inspires the student to do his best to discover a knowledge he already has in his soul.
— Paulo Coelho
A writer once said that it is not time that changes man, nor knowledge; the only thing that can change someone's mind is love.
— Paulo Coelho
Only when l know, the truth will set me free!
— Paulo Coelho
The boy told himself that, on the way toward realizing his own destiny, he had learned all he needed to know, and had experienced everything he might have dreamed of.
— Paulo Coelho
Knowledge is an illusion. Ecstasy is the true reality. Knowledge fills us with guilt. Ecstasy allows us to be one with he who is the Universe, before it existed, and after it has been destroyed.
— Paulo Coelho
I'm just like that woman really. Or rather, that's what I used to be like: someone pretending to know everything, hidden away in my own silence
— Paulo Coelho
You never let the cards tell their own story; you were trying to make them confirm what you imagined you knew.
— Paulo Coelho
The person who knows only his side of the argument knows little of that.
— Karl Barth
The black man in Africa had mastered the arts and sciences. He knew the course of the stars in the universe before the man up in Europe knew that the earth wasn't flat.
— Malcolm X
A book should contain pure discoveries, glimpses of terra firma, though by shipwrecked mariners, and not the art of navigation by those who have never been out of sight of land.
— Henry David Thoreau
Lord, who art always the same, give that I know myself, give that I know Thee.
— St. Augustine