Knowledge Quotes - Page 17

Education and knowledge are no longer values of truth and beauty that make life worth living- they are reduced to an economic means to the ends of greater pay and more consumption.

We came to this world with two wealths, love and hope, but, in the end, love is our only wealth.

True wealth comes less from having riches than from knowing how to live richly.

Think in a new way, think every day to find the truth.

Persistence creates genius; without persistence, there is no winner.

When every opportunity given to you is used to serve the people, you are on the path of life’s purpose to the fullness.

Knowledge is power. Power to do evil...or power to do good. Power itself is not evil. So knowledge itself is not evil.

That which cures all worldly miseries, is called ‘Scientific’ Knowledge.

[I would] rather discover one cause than gain the kingdom of Persia.

An age cannot bind itself and ordain to put the succeeding one into such a condition that it cannot extend its (at best very occasional) knowledge , purify itself of errors, and progress in general enlightenment. That would be a crime against human nature, the proper destination of which lies precisely in this progress and the descendants would be fully justified in rejecting those decrees as having been made in an unwarranted and malicious manner..

When your Knowledge is linked together it’s called Experience.

The knowledge of the Universe is not secret, but is placed in the heart of every grandma and grandpa who have nothing and yet give everything to their grandchildren, in the eyes of every mother holding her baby close to her heart, in the spirit of every father holding the hand of his child walking for the first time.

Mowaljarlai rarely answered questions with an abstract explanation; he always told a story. His was not a fragmented world, divided into the convenient disciplinary languages and jargon that seem to be required for the understanding of concepts and principles in, for example, mathematics, physics, art and literature. Not only did he not have these languages; he thought this was a strange way to arrive at understanding the way in which the world lives in itself. It baffled him that whitefellas developed their knowledge by busting things up, reducing things to little pieces separate from everything else that contributes to their nature. For him, everything in creation is not only living and interconnected, but exists in a story and story cycle. Yet his knowledge of what whitefellas call ‘science’ was extraordinary.”p80-1.

A clear mind achieves success.

Love yourself first to love others.

Confidence is ignorance. If you're feeling cocky, it's because there's something you don't know.

It is easy to love but difficult to forget, so love every moment to create an enormous unforgettable memory.

One can pass on knowledge but not wisdom. One can find wisdom, one can live it, one can be supported by it, one can work wonders with it, but one cannot speak it or teach it.

When question arise Be or not to beAlways be.

Failure is not an option, winning or learning are the options.

Gratitude opens our mind to accept more and fills our heart to give more.

Education is beautification of the inner world and the outer world.

The more you realize, the more you realize there is nothing to realize. The idea that there's somewhere we have got to get to, and something we have to attain, is our basic delusion.

I don't dare touch her. Loss is a knowledge I'm sorry to have. Perhaps the only thing worse than experiencing it, is watching it replay anew in someone else--all the awful stages picking up like a chorus that has to be sung.

I love you because I find myself in you.

The problem of knowledge is that there are many more books on birds written by ornithologists than books on birds written by birds and books on ornithologists written by birds

Take care of your costume and your confidence will take care of itself.

Let me love and feel the joy of life.

Every intention emits a power of attraction, which brings all the forces of universe to fulfill your dreams.

If I were to go back in time with the knowledge that I have today about Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity (EHS), I would invest the money into changing the electrical characteristics of my body and exhaust that route first, particularly if no one else in the home is showing the condition. If everyone is sick in the home, it is probably an environmental issue that warrants expense on changing the environmental factors.

Hope is the dance of the spirit. Mind is the stage and imagination is the music.

There is nothing more important and precious on earth than the opportunity to love and appreciate.

Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know.

Knowledge is the most beautiful manifestation of the human mind.

Wasting time is living in self glorification instead of glorifying God as God is time

Better to keep it in the old heads, where no one can see it or suspect it. We are all bits and pieces of history and literature and international law. Byron, Tom Paine, Machiavelli, or Christ, it's here. And the hour's late. And the war's begun. And we are out here, and the city is there, all wrapped up in its own coat of a thousand colors... All we want to do is keep the knowledge we think we will need intact and safe. We're not out to incite or anger anyone yet. For if we are destroyed, the knowledge is dead, perhaps for good... Right now we have a horrible job; we're waiting for the war to begin and, as quickly, end. It's not pleasant, but then we're not in control, we're the odd minority crying in the wilderness. When the war's over, perhaps we can be of some use in the world.

The complexities of adult life get in the way of the truth.

That which others hear or read of, I felt and practised myself; they get their knowledge by books, I mine by melancholizing.

Simplicity is the best strategy.Reciprocity is the best policy.

Only the man who thinks himself a fool is as wise as he thinks.

If the most High grant thee to live, thou shall see after the third trumpet that the sun shall suddenly shine again in the night, and the moon thrice in the day:

You don't have to be perfect, just be loving and compassionate.

It pains me to have all this knowledge and no one to share it with, I’d have to say its number 3 on my list. – Of what causes me the most pain.

If a person holds no ambitions in this world, he suffers unknowingly. If a person holds ambitions, he suffers knowingly, but very slowly.

I am inclined to trust you. You shouldn’t be like that with another man, not ever; but I can’t help it. I felt it strongly from the instant I heard your voice; and though I thought momentarily that it would falter, it didn’t. It’s still here. You see, the essence of trust is not knowing a person’s motive; it’s knowing what isn’t. It’s a simple process of trial and error that gets you to the heart of a man; and once that soft voice and those light feet of yours got to moving I saw in you no measure of ill intent.

Time well-spent is life well-lived.

Knowledge is a social construct, a consensus among the members of a community of knowledgeable peers.

The Islamic intellectual tradition has usually not seen a dichotomy between intellect and intuition but has created a hierarchy of knowledge and methods of attaining knowledge according to which degrees of both intellection and intuition become harmonized in an order encompassing all the means available to man to know, from sensual knowledge an reason to intellection and inner version or the "knowledge of the heart.

The best way to determine the Values you will enforce in your business is to clarify your personal values.

The mind is a temple of knowledge, the heart is a temple of understanding, and the soul is a temple of wisdom; together they are a temple of enlightenment.

The voice that says, “That’s the way I am,” is the voice of knowledge. It’s the voice of the liar living in the Tree of Knowledge in your head. The Toltec consider it a mental disease that is highly contagious because it’s transmitted from human to human through knowledge. The symptoms of the disease are fear, anger, hatred, sadness, jealousy, conflict, and separation between humans. Again, these lies are controlling the dream of our life. I think this is obvious.

Truth is not a right to be claimed, but a gift for those who are able to conquer it. ☥

Knowledge is potential power, but wisdom is the readily available power of the mind.

Knowledge, teach. Wisdom, acquire. Understanding, share. Love, spread.

People in the world ask for forgiveness, but [true] ‘pratikraman’ does not happen by doing that. That is like when people casually say ‘sorry’ or ‘thank you’. There is no significance in that; the significance is of ‘alochana-pratikraman-pratyakhyan’ (acknowledgement of the mistake, repentance and asking for forgiveness for the mistake, remorse and avowal not to repeat the mistake, respectively).

Enjoy the moment, this is all we have at this moment. This moment is our life.

Love yourself and others without expecting any return.

Value of life depends not on your possessions, but on your donation.

Once power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact power has no sex.

You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honor trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then - to learn.