Holistic Knowledge Quotes

The wise man knows of all things, as far as possible, although he has no knowledge of each of them in detail

If you look at the people who have high impact, they have pretty general knowledge. They don't have a really narrowly focused education.

The use of a thing is only a part of its significance. To know anything thoroughly, to have the full command of it in all its appliances, we must study it on its own account, independently of any special application.

To be master of any branch of knowledge, you must master those which lie next to it, and thus to know anything you must know all.

Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Science is a line, art a superficies, and life or the knowledge of God, a solid.

When you find a writer who really is saying something to you, read everything that writer has written and you will get more education and depth of understanding out of that than reading a scrap here and a scrap there and elsewhere. Then go to people who influenced that writer, or those who were related to him, and your world builds together in an organic way that is really marvelous.

Mathematicians have sought knowledge in figures, Philosophers in systems, Logicians in subtleties, and Metaphysicians in sounds. It is not in any nor in all of these. He that studies only men, will get the body of knowledge without the soul, and he that studies only books, the soul without the body.

True knowledge is that which establishes harmony and synthesis between ience on the one hand and spirituality and ethics on the other.