If our knowledge is, as I believe, only an island in an infinite sea of ignorance, how can we in our short… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
Hands-on experience at the critical time, not systematic knowledge, is what counts in the making of a naturalist. Better to be an… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“Deepening awareness and nonjudgmental acceptance of one’s thoughts fosters a new relationship with them, creating the space to purposefully shift mental focus… — Dan Mager Copy Share Image
This is what our yoga practice is trying to accomplish. Not white light descending from heaven and engulfing you, not energy released… — Bryan Kest Copy Share Image
[M]y work, which I've done for a long time, was not pursued in order to gain the praise I now enjoy, but… — Antonie van Leeuwenhoek Copy Share Image
But, in history, practical usefulness never determines the moral value of an achievement. Only the person who increases the knowledge humanity has… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
To the best of my knowledge, when I became national secretary and, indeed, Victorian secretary, the - my predecessors in the union… — Bill Shorten Copy Share Image
Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge. They are chaotic, sometimes painful, sometimes contradictory, but they come from deep within… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
An athlete gains so much knowledge by just participating in a sport. Focus, discipline, hard work, goal setting and, of course, the… — Kristi Yamaguchi Copy Share Image
The art of writing history is the art of emphasizing the significant facts at the expense of the insignificant. And it is… — Robert Wilson Lynd Copy Share Image
The intellectual process must be stirred. A feeling for knowledge for its own sake must be engendered. Learning will then be an… — Julius Sumner Miller Copy Share Image
It is that faculty by which we discover and enjoy the beautiful, the picturesque, and the sublime in literature, art, and nature;… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
“Even today, some opt for the comforts of mystification, preferring to believe that the wonders of the ancient world were built by… — Ronald Wright Copy Share Image
These past years, as we have been recovering and given our city a rebirth, we have been encouraged by our faith, knowledge,… — Cedric Richmond Copy Share Image
Self-knowledge is not the knowledge of a dead self, self-knowledge is the knowledge of the process of the self. It is an… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“Praise be to God I’m not good, And have the natural egotism of flowers And rivers following their bed Preoccupied without knowing… — Alberto Caeiro Copy Share Image
People didn't question my knowledge, my throwing ability or athleticism; they questioned my ability to stand in and take a hit. So… — Derek Carr Copy Share Image
“When we look back, it becomes clear that the acts and accomplishments of human beings are the signatures of history. Human signatures… — Jean Sasson Copy Share Image
When I behold a rich landscape, it is less to my purpose to recite correctly the order and superposition of the strata,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“If we wish for our country to have an exponentially brighter future, one of the things we need to change is the… — Joshua Neik Copy Share Image
With my first few books, I was aiming at an academic audience, basically, to get tenure. You can presuppose a certain amount… — H. W. Brands Copy Share Image
“surely the only true knowledge of our fellow-man is that which enables us to feel with him—which gives us a fine ear… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
If we wish to discuss knowledge in the most highly developed contemporary society, we must answer the preliminary question of what methodological… — Jean-Francois Lyotard Copy Share Image
This awareness instills a fierce desire to protect that heritage and - in doing so - to educate Americans in the meaning… — Allen Weinstein Copy Share Image
There are other letters for the child to learn than those which Cadmus invented. The Spaniards have a good term to express… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Vipassana arises as you pay awareness to the inner and outer experience unfolding at the present moment. Vipassana is not associated with… — Amit Ray Copy Share Image
All the knowledge that I get, all the access that I get, I try to pass that down. And not open a… — Bobby Wagner Copy Share Image
“You're a hopeless romantic," said Faber. "It would be funny if it were not serious. It's not books you need, it's some… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Scriptural knowledge is achetan (inanimate; lifeless), nevertheless it still it takes one towards chetan (animate, the eternal pure Soul). And Gnani’s [the… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
But you go to a great school, not for knowledge so much as for arts and habits; for the habit of attention,… — William Johnson Cory Copy Share Image
“When you are able to know the right thing, you are intelligent. But when you choose that right thing to do, you… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“Even amazing states of bliss, peace, clarity and spaciousness have nothing to do with awakening as these are just experiences coming and… — Enza Vita Copy Share Image
A quest for knowledge is not a war with faith; spirituality is not usually an infelicitous amalgam of superstition and philistinism; and… — Conrad Black Copy Share Image
“If you are not EXCITED enough at your present life its mean your future is not EXITING. Excitement will give you ENTHUSIASM… — Rashedur Ryan Rahman Copy Share Image
Technology is changing our lives. It cannot and will not change what is fundamental to the human condition. It will never change… — Robert White Copy Share Image
Were I asked to define it, I should reply that archeology is that science which enables us to register and classify our… — Amelia B. Edwards Copy Share Image
“Haven't you noticed that opinion without knowledge is always a poor thing? At the best it is blind—isn't anyone who holds a… — Plato Copy Share Image
Now by knowing absolute truth you understand each other much more. That means a collective consciousness, a new dimension in your awareness.… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
Looking back, I realise it wasn't only gym I dreaded at school. Every class was a torment. It wasn't knowledge I objected… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
The only purpose of education is to teach a student how to live his life-by developing his mind and equipping him to… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image