You are not likely to bring out the best in people or nurture their creativity if every time you hear about their… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
Widespread public access to knowledge, like public education, is one of the pillars of our democracy, a guarantee that we can maintain… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
“All ancient philosophers, poets, and moralists agree that love is a striving, an aspiration of the “lower” toward the “higher,” the “unformed”… — Max Scheler Copy Share Image
Wonder... and not any expectation of advantage from its discoveries, is the first principle which prompts mankind to the study of Philosophy,… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
“...one is creeping into middle age and is less easily distracted by one's appetites, which have grown feeble, and by one's passions,… — Nicholas Murray Copy Share Image
One does not divine this by impressions or knowledge. What this means is that no matter how much you try to figure… — Takuan Soho Copy Share Image
Reality is all-encompassing: the absolute nature is one. Although we may feel separate from the original uncreated reality - whether we call… — Tarthang Tulku Copy Share Image
No matter where you are in life, no matter what you’ve contributed to creating, no matter what’s happening, you are always doing… — Louise Hay Copy Share Image
“Sharing pictures of yourself in front of houses you don’t own, standing by cars you don’t drive, and holding money that isn’t… — Loren T Weisman Copy Share Image
“Wandering across the vast room, I stopped at a set of shelves as high as the ceiling, and holding about six hundred… — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share Image
Each increment of knowledge imparted in this way is so satisfying-and one's ignorance at every stage so consequential-that the process of learning… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“Darwin, with his Origin of Species, his theories about Natural Selection, the Survival of the Fittest, and the influence of environment, shed… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“The acquisition of knowledge always involves the revelation of ignorance - almost is the revelation of ignorance. Our knowledge of the world… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Let us begin by clearing up the old confusion between theman who loves learning and the man who loves reading, and point… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
By a combination of formal training and self study, the latter continuing systematically well into the 1940s, I was able to gain… — Herbert A. Simon Copy Share Image
There are certain things that have universal attributes, like music. Something of greater magnitude is conveyed by them. They connect us with… — Swami Paramananda Copy Share Image
My desire for knowledge is intermittent; but my desire to commune with the spirit of the universe, to be intoxicated with the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“You know what I'm sick of? Using my brain. All day long it's people and words and stress and meetings and books… — Robyn Wilder Copy Share Image
Knowledge will appear in turn the merest ignorance to those who come after us. Yet it is not to be despised, since… — Agnes Mary Clerke Copy Share Image
The four points of the compass be logic, knowledge, wisdom and the unknown. Some do bow in that final direction. Others advance… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
“In the end the knowledge, for a single individual, is just a collection of ideas, beliefs and so on that the individual… — Pierfrancesco Aiello Copy Share Image
In the brain, you have connections between the neurons called synapses, and they can change. All your knowledge is stored in those… — Geoffrey Hinton Copy Share Image
Now it is established in the sciences that no knowledge is acquired save through the study of its causes and beginnings, if… — Avicenna Copy Share Image
The realm of immediate or personal knowledge is a narrow circle in which these bodies move; the realm of knowledge derived through… — Matthew Simpson Copy Share Image
“if we are to have a clear standard for whether or not these techniques and teachings are working for us, it is… — Daniel M. Ingram Copy Share Image
Even scientific knowledge, if there is anything to it, is not a random observation of random objects; for the critical objectivity of… — Karl Jaspers Copy Share Image
Gradually the conviction gained recognition that all knowledge about things is exclusively a working-over of the raw material furnished by the senses.… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“And what have I invested in interpreting disfocus for chaos? This threat: the only lesson is to wait. I crouch in the… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
Man's quest for knowledge is an expanding series whose limit is infinity, but philosophy seeks to attain that limit at one blow,… — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share Image
There is no worse calamity for knowledge and its people than when outsiders intrude. They are ignorant, but presume to know. They… — Babloo Copy Share Image
It's not even my job to educate, but what I do is try to facilitate by creating a book that works on… — Graeme Base Copy Share Image
“A person has to have confidence in what he's going to do. If he don't, he's not going to do it long.… — Vaunda Micheaux Nelson Copy Share Image
Measurement has too often been the leitmotif of many investigations rather than the experimental examination of hypotheses. Mounds of data are collected,… — Edmund Pellegrino Copy Share Image
Learning is not virtue but the means to bring us an acquaintance with it. Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and… — Nathanael Greene Copy Share Image
It is hard to hide our genes completely. However devoted someone may be to the privacy of his genotype, others with enough… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
In a lot of ways knowledge kills fear. Once you know who the boogie man is, once you know what's under the… — Leigh Whannell Copy Share Image
We have a tremendous lack of knowledge of how far we have gotten away from the Constitution of the United States. Democrats… — Paul Broun Copy Share Image
We bequeath to you, the next generation, our knowledge but also our problems. While we still live, let us join hands, hearts… — Rosalyn Sussman Yalow Copy Share Image
“Education has a social specificity of its own that centres on the conditions for the acquisition of knowledge that can never be… — Michael F.D. Young Copy Share Image
You can choose instead to live in the enriching, empowering light of your own highest visions. You can always choose to grow,… — Ralph Marston Copy Share Image
