A monk should surely love his books with humility, wishing their good and not the glory of his own curiosity; but what the temptation of adultery is for laymen and the yearning for riches is for secular ecclesiastics, the seduction of knowledge is for monks.
Umberto EcoTags: books knowledge curiosity vice seduction
Valuing knowledge above all else results in a lust for power, and that leads men into dark and empty places.
Veronica RothTags: knowledge
There is no quarrel between science and spirituality. I often hear people of science trying to use it to prove the nonexistence of the spiritual, but I simply can't see a chasm in between the two. What is spiritual produces what is scientific and when science is used to disprove the spiritual, it's always done with the intent to do so; a personal contempt. As a result, scientists today only prove their inferiority to the great founding fathers of the sciences who were practitioners of alchemy. Today's science is washed-out and scrubbed-down and robbed of everything mystical and spiritual, a knowledge born of contempt and discontent. Or perhaps, there are a few who wish to keep those secrets to themselves and serve everyone else up with a tasteless version of science and the idiots of today blindly follow their equally blind leaders.
C. JoyBell C.Tags: science knowledge history society spiritual secrets spirituality scientists scientific idiots alchemy
The truth is like salt. Men want to taste a little, but too much makes everyone sick.
Joe AbercrombieTags: truth knowledge ignorance
Knowledge is a tool, and like all tools, its impact is in the hands of the user.
Dan BrownTags: knowledge
Knowledge is power, and the right knowledge lets man perform miraculous, almost godlike tasks.
Dan BrownTags: knowledge
The real purpose of the scientific method is to make sure nature hasn’t misled you into thinking you know something you actually don’t know.
Robert M. PirsigTags: science error knowledge nature mistake
I only know everything if you ask the right questions.
Doc ColemanTags: humor knowledge wisdom-quote
The thirst for knowledge is like a piece of ass you know you shouldn't chase; in the end, you chase it just the same.
George P. PelecanosBut it was Aldo’s pen that became his most forceful tool. He started a newsletter for rangers called the Carson Pine Cone. Aldo used it to “scatter seeds of knowledge, encouragement, and enthusiasm.” Most of the Pine Cone’s articles, poems, jokes, editorials, and drawings were Aldo’s own. His readers soon realized that the forest animals were as important to him as the trees. His goal was to bring back the “flavor of the wilds.
Marybeth LorbieckiTags: knowledge writing wilderness
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