Knowledge Quotes - Page 86

Quiet people always know more than they seem. Although very normal, their inner world is by default fronted mysterious and therefore assumed weird. Never underestimate the social awareness and sense of reality in a quiet person; they are some of the most observant, absorbent persons of all.

Oh my great hope, all things are possible if you have the right knowledge

The only area of strength for Satan’s rulership is in our area of ignorance.

I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun. ... What you know about computing other people will learn. Don’t feel as if the key to successful computing is only in your hands. What’s in your hands I think and hope is intelligence: the ability to see the machine as more than when you were first led up to it, that you can make it more.

An extreme fearfulness moves through all your body, and your mind is troubled more.

Do not just accept anything without questioning.

For success, focus has utmost importance, but distraction is disastrous.

Foreign to knowledge, mystery to senses, alien to emotion: LOVE.

The shiny paint laid on by curiosity's hand has worn off. What thing better can a man know than the love of Christ, which passes knowledge?

There are two kinds of love. One kind you live with, the other you write poetry about.

Politeness is the first thing people lose once they get the power.

When ignorance is passed down for a long time without giving it a second thought, it leads to evil because you are doing it without knowledge.

A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us.

Kindness is an attribute of strength, it has boldness in it and the power of love.

People think that they think things, and they also think that they know things. They could usefully give some attention to the question of whether they know what they think and know what they think they know.

It doesn't matter how big you are, it matters how big your thoughts are.

To bring peace in this world, you have to be peaceful with yourself.

The specialist is a man who fears the other subjects.

But I know nothing; my future is a wide-open vista, leading to an unknown country - The Rest Of My Life.

Information had become a critical tool that you can use to raise your bar across every barrier towards excellence. Deny this fact and maintain your bar wherever it was without even a millimeter lift.

It is interesting to find that those whom I like, they also like me.

Justice is paramount. The new judgement is the justice of the hidden time.

O Lord that bear rule, who may know these things, but he that had not his dwelling with men?

I believe that we do not know anything for certain, but everything probably.

Use two-way communication on oral exams to check the students' knowledge, not their attitudes. Checking attitudes can lead to the slippery area of subjective assessment.

Iyther you dont know nothing or you know too much it dont seam like theres any thing in be twean.

I believe that dreams transport us through the underside of our days and that if we wish to become acquainted with the dark side of what we are the signposts are there waiting for us to translate them.

What would you consider a good job?" Answered as follows:"A good job is one in which I don't have to work, and get paid a lot of money."When I heard that I cheered and yelled and felt that he should be given an A+, for he had perfectly articulated the American dream of those who despise knowledge. What a politician that kid would have made.

When you are searching for love, love is standing just outside the door. Just open the door and welcome the love.

Liberty opens the door to possibility. Freedom gives us a chance to make that possibility a reality.

There is a potential heroine in every woman.

Whatever your passion, make sure you hold unto a philosophy that is bigger and greater than you.

History will remember you for your accomplishments, not for your ability.

Hopes and desires are the fundamental source if creation.

There is only a certain amount of wealth in the world, this thinking goes. Economics is a matter of acquiring and allocating, not creating. This was the view of the world’s smartest people, all top philosophers and not stupid people, for many thousands of years before the age of the enlightenment. It still is.

The most difficult door to open is the entrance to an ignorant mind.

A good lover is a person who knows how to love deeply but never expects any in return.

Evidence is always partial. Facts are not truth, though they are part of it – information is not knowledge. And history is not the past – it is the method we have evolved of organising our ignorance of the past. It’s the record of what’s left on the record. It’s the plan of the positions taken, when we to stop the dance to note them down. It’s what’s left in the sieve when the centuries have run through it – a few stones, scraps of writing, scraps of cloth. It is no more “the past” than a birth certificate is a birth, or a script is a performance, or a map is a journey. It is the multiplication of the evidence of fallible and biased witnesses, combined with incomplete accounts of actions not fully understood by the people who performed them. It’s no more than the best we can do, and often it falls short of that.

A leader’s skills take him to people, but his character brings people to him.

The intellect, like all cultural values, has created an aristocracy based on the possession of rational culture and independent of all personal ethical qualities of man. The aristocracy of intellect is hence an unbrotherly aristocracy.

To gain wisdom, you must not only acquire knowledge, but you must assimilate it within your being.

Through learning we re-create ourselves. Through learning we become able to do something we never were able to do. Through learning we reperceive the world and our relationship to it. Through learning we extend our capacity to create, to be part of the generative process of life

Have the imagination, create the vision, go with passion, and take the action; you will achieve all of your goals.

You can never know everything, and part of what you know is always wrong. Perhaps even the most important part. A portion of wisdom lies in knowing that. A portion of courage lies in going on anyway.

Act as if there is no chance of failure.

As humans, we have invented lots of useful kinds of lie. As well as lies-to-children ('as much as they can understand') there are lies-to-bosses ('as much as they need to know') lies-to-patients ('they won't worry about what they don't know') and, for all sorts of reasons, lies-to-ourselves. Lies-to-children is simply a prevalent and necessary kind of lie. Universities are very familiar with bright, qualified school-leavers who arrive and then go into shock on finding that biology or physics isn't quite what they've been taught so far. 'Yes, but you needed to understand that,' they are told, 'so that now we can tell you why it isn't exactly true.' Discworld teachers know this, and use it to demonstrate why universities are truly storehouses of knowledge: students arrive from school confident that they know very nearly everything, and they leave years later certain that they know practically nothing. Where did the knowledge go in the meantime? Into the university, of course, where it is carefully dried and stored.

Our knowledge has limitations even though we have infinite imaginations.

Among other possibilities, money was invented to make it possible for a foolish man to control wise men; a weak man, strong men; a child, old men; an ignorant man, knowledgeable men; and for a dwarf to control giants.

To hear is one thing, to know is another.

We must not allow our pride to be the motivation behind our apologetics; rather, philoverity, the love of truth must be the full and complete motivation. For pride corrupts truth.

Until we can understand the assumptions in which we are drenched we cannot know ourselves.

If one million of you give assent to the one thousand who participate in the murder of a child, then one million of you are a million times guilty.

My confidence is in the idea that I may be wrong on this or that. No man in this life should ever have to bear the burden of perfection.

Science replaces private prejudice with public, verifiable evidence.

... there is no shame in not knowing. The problem arises when irrational thought and attendant behavior fill the vacuum left by ignorance.

A life without trouble and tragedy is boring and not a plot for comedy.

The books you have read and the knowledge and inspiration you have gained can never be taken away from you.

Whenever I love you, I find myself more loving.

THREE BASIC TRUTHSThree things have a limited threshold: Time, pain, and death.While truth, love, and knowledge –Are boundless.Three things are needed For humanity to co-exist:Truth, peace and basic needs.Everything else -Is irrelevant.

Trust everyone and love everyone, you will never lose.