A man goes to knowledge as he goes to war: wide-awake, with fear, with respect, and with absolute assurance. Going to knowledge… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
We say that knowledge is not mere talk, but a certain divine knowledge, that light which is kindled in the soul as… — Clement of Alexandria Copy Share Image
“To be content in utter darkness and ignorance is indeed unmanly, and therefore we think that to love light and find knowledge… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
“There is a great difference between enlightenment and education. The former is a discerned vital knowledge without guidance while the latter is… — Uzoma Nnadi Copy Share Image
I should say that the useful results of science had accumulated, but that there had been no accumulation of knowledge, strictly speaking,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In the final, the positive, state, the mind has given over the vain search after absolute notions, the origin and destination of… — Auguste Comte Copy Share Image
I ... began my career as a wireless amateur. After 43 years in radio, I do not mind confessing that I am… — David Sarnoff Copy Share Image
“Which do you think is more valuable to humanity? a. Finding ways to tell humans that they have free will despite the… — Jerry A. Coyne Copy Share Image
Knowledge can be like the skin on the surface of the water in a pond, or it can go all the way… — Siobhan Dowd Copy Share Image
The self- explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else. He learns to see himself, but suddenly,… — Elias Canetti Copy Share Image
After Gibbs, one the most distinguished [American scientists] was Langley, of the Smithsonian. ... He had the physicist's heinous fault of professing… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
If you have a golf-ball-sized consciousness, when you read a book, you'll have a golf-ball-sized understanding; when you look out a window,… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
The medieval university looked backwards; it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge. The modern university looks forward, and is a… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
“It was like picking up a book and reading the things the main character did and said and his description and thinking… — Vin Packer Copy Share Image
“It is the business of man to become acquainted with the material universe in all of its manifestations, so far as may… — John A. Widtsoe Copy Share Image
To allow mystery, which is to say to yourself, 'There could be more...things we don't understand,' is not to damn knowledge…It is… — Barry Lopez Copy Share Image
“But perhaps there are in us forces other than mind and heart, other even than the senses - mysterious forces which take… — Romain Rolland Copy Share Image
“Be he poor, be he friendless,here he may acquire distinction, the reward of merit alone. Knowledge to him will here unfold her… — Charles Nicholson Copy Share Image
“There is in every intellect a natural exigency for a true concept of God: we are born with the thirst to know… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Shut your eyes and you will know what I mean by thought entombed in darkness. Light comes through the senses, and not… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Every student who enters upon a scientific pursuit, especially if at a somewhat advanced period of life, will find not only that… — John Herschel Copy Share Image
“You only get out of something what you bring into it, whether it is your job, your relationships, watching a movie, or… — John D. Mosley Copy Share Image
Let us, my dear contemporaries, arise above such narrow prejudices. If wisdom be desirable on its own account, if virtue, to deserve… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
For me, all collecting must be done out of the love of the art. That being said, investment knowledge is absolutely mandatory… — Tim Matheson Copy Share Image
My mother is not a model. She is not perfect. That awareness is part of learning to love someone. Predicting the actions… — Daniel Tammet Copy Share Image
“The man who is ready to prove that metaphysical knowledge is wholly impossible has no right here to any answer. He must… — F.H. Bradley Copy Share Image
“Objects and Objectives To contemplate LEGO. Many colours. Many shapes. Many inventive and useful shapes. Plastic. A versatile and practical substance. Symbolic… — Jay Woodman Copy Share Image
The entire object of true education, is to make people not merely do the right thing, but to enjoy right things; not… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
So thoughtless awareness is the first beautiful state you have to achieve. That will give you peace and a witness state to… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
For knowledge to become wisdom, and for the soul to grow, the soul must be rooted in God: and it is through… — William Mountford Copy Share Image
It has been observed that a dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant will see farther than the giant himself; and… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“We know nothing worth knowing about what goes on outside our frontiers. Worse-we know very little more about what goes on within… — Michael Frayn Copy Share Image
Like buried treasures, the outposts of the universe have beckoned to the adventurous from immemorial times. Princes and potentates, political or industrial,… — George Ellery Hale Copy Share Image
If the individual could succeed in discovering through human experience the profound past, he, would more rapidly, reach the conclusion that all… — Chico Xavier Copy Share Image
Because of our broken instincts we are in pain. We continue in pain because our instincts have been twisted by reason. So,… — Tatsuhiko Takimoto Copy Share Image
“The majority con- sensus, however, reached eventually was again expressed clearly and forcefully by al-Ghazzâlî: “The knowledge about (ma- rifah) God is… — Franz Rosenthal Copy Share Image
“His idea was to begin with those broad truths that must underlie all conceivable mental existences and establish a basis on those.… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
If the fresh facts come to our knowledge all fit themselves into the scheme, then our hypothesis may gradually become a solution.… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
One must have a thorough knowledge of anatomy and a good perception of depth for silhouette work. Otherwise they resemble those childish… — Ugo Mochi Copy Share Image
Awareness by itself is not enough: it must be joined by mastery. We need gradually to develop a steering ability to keep… — Piero Ferrucci Copy Share Image
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