Knowledge Quotes - Page 68

Be a person who radiates the fire of love to burn and purify everything around to create the beauty of joy and peace.

In the morning, a cup of love, kindness and sunshine make my day bright and happy.

I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind — that its modest and greatly overestimated services on the ethical side have been more than overcome by the damage it has done to clear and honest thinking.I believe that no discovery of fact, however trivial, can be wholly useless to the race, and that no trumpeting of falsehood, however virtuous in intent, can be anything but vicious.I believe that the evidence for immortality is no better than the evidence of witches, and deserves no more respect.I believe in the complete freedom of thought and speech — alike for the humblest man and the mightiest, and in the utmost freedom of conduct that is consistent with living in organized society.I believe in the capacity of man to conquer his world, and to find out what it is made of, and how it is run.I believe in the reality of progress.I —But the whole thing, after all, may be put very simply. I believe that it is better to tell the truth than to lie. I believe that it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe that it is better to know than be ignorant.

Nanabozho also had the task to learn how to live from his elder brothers and sisters. When he needed food, he noticed what the animals were eating and copied them. Heron taught him to gather wild rice. One night by the creek, he saw a little ring-tailed animal carefully washing his food with delicate hands. He thought, “Ahh, I am supposed to put only clean food in my body.”Nanabozho was counseled by many plants too, who shared gifts, and learned to treat them always with the greatest respect. After all, plants were here first on the earth and have had a long time to figure things out. Together, all the beings, both plants and animals, taught him what he needed to know. The Creator had told him it would be this way.

If war, destruction and killings are the prerequisite to bring the peace, then I really don't want it.

When life presents you with a problem, show the courage, make yourself a hundred times bigger than the problem.

America is no longer a country that cares about experts. In fact, it hates experts. If you can't fit a story into the culture-war storyline in ten seconds or less, it dies.

Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.

Life isn't about achieving successBut about creating joy and happiness.

You are still what you think, despite what others think about you!

Imagine, dream, act, discover and wonder. Everyday is a new day to love and wonder.

The practice of love and compassion are the most important treatment for the sickness of hatred and revival of peace in the world.

How often ignorance stings less than knowledge.

Only Gnan (Knowledge of the Self) will give liberation. All other instruments (& practices) create bondage.

We owe almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.

Where should one turn for guidance in an appraisal of of the essence of justice, morality, ethics, religion, science, literaturem, and the like? Not to the past, for history is willfully misinterpreted; and not to the church, which is ineffective because of the cowardice of its leaders. Even science cannot be helpful beccause its exponents have succeeded only in destroying the harmony of life. It is therefore the duty of literature to rediscover the truth and beauty of life that other means have failed to find.

What man is able to do that, that thou should ask such things of me?

Love has no monetary value, but it enhances the value of life.

Your thorns are the best part of you.

Show me slowly what I onlyknow the limits ofDance me to the end of love

To transform this world into a better place to live, make yourself a better person first.

Are you thinking? Are you creating? Ask yourself whenever you feel boring?

Wherever your thoughts and beliefs can take you, you can go there.

Your strength lies in knowledge, your power lies in wisdom, your treasure lies in understanding, and your wealth lies in life.

Her eyes were celadon saucers but bottomless, of such great depth that she could take in the knowledge of whole worlds and have room in that gaze for still more.

As the dew drop slides down the leaf to wet the soil, they call it "fall in love". Yet, do we know the way up from the way down?

The Lord is concerned about the poor receiving justice and that they are not neglected or cheated.

Most people do not invest their time because they do not see need to do that.

What luck has gave you will probably leave you.

Life is a one-way journey to be enjoyed, so enjoy the beauty of the present moment with all your heart.

Knowledge shall set the mind free.

When you are giving, your mind grows wings of joy to fly.

Reading is a powerful force that illuminates the darkness. Unfortunately, few have the courage to walk against the world in search of knowledge that transforms reality.

When you give without expectation, you will always have more to give away.

Despite these afternoon misgivings and self-reproaches I clung to my notion, ill-defined though it was, that a serious study of human knowledge, or theory, or belief, if undertaken with a critical but not a cruel mind, would in the end yield some secret, some valuable permanent insight, into the nature of life and the true end of man.

Knowledge (Gnan) is not attained first first the ego departs.

God can make a cow out of a tree, but has He ever done so? Therefore show some reason why a thing is so, or cease to hold that it is so.

Improvements enable adapting to new situations.

There is no good day or a bad day, but our perception makes it so.

What was it you told me, Jesus?” she asked him softly. “Do you remember? Love is love is love. Pain is pain is pain. Knowledge is knowledge. It doesn’t matter what shape or form it takes, what matters is how you use it, what you do with it, and if you can accept it with some measure of grace. If you can, it’s the most beautiful thing in the world. If you can’t...

Worldly knowledge (laukik gnan) is understood through the intellect (buddhi). Knowledge of that which is beyond the world (alaukik gnan) cannot be understood through the intellect. That is understood through ‘Gnan’ [Knowledge of the Real Self].

You see how I live: shadows and silence, leaving things as I find them because I have no reason to disturb them. But there are things that I have known, even though I never wished to know them and cannot give them a name.

The surest sign of fitness is success.

Failure to find the truth is perhaps an intellectual defeat, but failure to look for the truth is an intellectual surrender.

Ungodliness has always declared war on godliness.

Thou art sore troubled in mind for the people in the world’s sake: loves thou that people better than he that made them?

After attainment of Supreme knowledge a man lives but he does not lead an ordinary man’s life. He lives, he eats, he sleeps and by God’s commandment he becomes a ‘man-catcher’ as Christ told Peter.

People need to understand that not everyone is out to hurt you. There are still some great people in this world. Do not allow yourself to believe that everyone is up to no good. Just because you have encountered some rude people along the way, doesn't mean that everyone is that way. When it comes to matters of the heart, Know which bridges to cross and which ones to burn.

It's not love at first sight, it's having the sight, to distinguish true love, from just mere beauty.

...[R]eal wisdom is the property of God, and... human wisdom has little or no value.

Each type of knowledge has value; however, from an engineering point of view, practical knowledge seems to be more valuable than theoretical knowledge.

Let us see each other not through the eyes but through the heart and feel the joy of love.

For an illuminated life, give yourself up for the service of others.

We always learn more from those whom we hate than those whom we love.

No knowledge comes to you late. It comes just at the time when you are ready for it.

Make mistakes often without remorse or fear. You will gain experience and will be a winner.

The phrase "I dont know" is the most honest thing anyone could ever say.

Happiness is an inner perception, not a defined destination.

One good thing about love, when it touches you, time stands still.

People are afraid of knowledge that is not yet theirs.