“The stubborn critic would say: 'What is the benefit of these sciences?' He does not know the virtue that distinguishes mankind from… — Abu Rayhan al-Biruni Copy Share Image
“Sufism is experiential. Capacities, even those for learning beyond a certain point, are provoked by Sufis, by one's own efforts and what… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
The true knowledge or science which exists nowhere but in the mind itself, has no other entity at all besides intelligibility; and… — Ralph Cudworth Copy Share Image
In the past, you'd have one magazine, it would arrive monthly, and that was your magazine. You'd devour it; you'd absorb all… — Louise Wilson Copy Share Image
Man never knows what he wants; he aspires to penetrate mysteries and as soon as he has, wants to re-establish them. Ignorance… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Imagine someone holding forth on biology whose only knowledge of the subject is 'The Book of British Birds,' and you have a… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
His [Thomas Edison] method was inefficient in the extreme, for an immense ground had to be covered to get anything at all… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
“The truths Phaedrus began to pursue were lateral truths; no longer the frontal truths of science, those toward which the discipline pointed,… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
Neglect of mathematics work injury to all knowledge, since he who is ignorant of it cannot know the other sciences or things… — Roger Bacon Copy Share Image
Productivity has always been the justification for the prepackaging of programming knowledge. But it is worth asking about the sort of productivity… — Ellen Ullman Copy Share Image
If we are to become the masters of science, not its slaves, we must learn to use its immense power to good… — David Sarnoff Copy Share Image
There's so much knowledge to be had that specialists cling to their specialties as a shield against having to know anything about… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Awareness of others is a beautiful thing. Learning how to support and encourage, and stopping long enough to pay attention to someone… — India de Beaufort Copy Share Image
“The seekers after knowledge should, of course, not seek worldly knowledge and worldly gain but devote themselves to the denunciation of the… — Franz Rosenthal Copy Share Image
What does mysticism really mean? It means the way to attain knowledge. It's close to philosophy, except in philosophy you go horizontally… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
On the question of the world as a whole, science founders. For scientific knowledge the world lies in fragments, the more so… — Karl Jaspers Copy Share Image
“Those who fight for food will die in hunger, those who fight for wealth will end up poor heated, only those who… — Hamzat Haruna Ribah Copy Share Image
The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Some souls seek to walk in awareness. Souls who walk in awareness choose a different path. They seek to experience all the… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
“[The wives of powerful noblemen] must be highly knowledgeable about government, and wise – in fact, far wiser than most other such… — Christine de Pizan Copy Share Image
“You should ask more questions; it is good for the mind and soul. Questions are doors in the castle of knowledge. Treasure… — Luke Alistar Copy Share Image
Summer is not obligatory. We can start an infernally hard jigsaw puzzle in June with the knowledge that, if there are enough… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
My understanding is that what was provided was general order of battle information, not operational intelligence. I certainly have no knowledge of… — Frank Carlucci Copy Share Image
I was in New York City on 9/11. Grief remains from that awful day, but not only grief. There is fear, too,… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
Generalization is necessary to the advancement of knowledge; but particularly is indispensable to the creations of the imagination. In proportion as men… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
There's a lot of knowledge in civil engineering about how soils will react when subjected to heavy loads. When you take lightweight… — Karl Iagnemma Copy Share Image
Initially, I didn't have much knowledge about cinema. But once I started doing good films, precisely after 'Kaaka Muttai,' people started respecting… — Aishwarya Rajesh Copy Share Image
A man sees only what concerns him… How much more, then, it requires different intentions of the eye and of the mind… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The essence of knowledge is generalization. That fire can be produced by rubbing wood in a certain way is a knowledge derived… — Hans Reichenbach Copy Share Image
One is fully conscious when he or she is the results of having been informed and instructed by the experience of his… — James Small Copy Share Image
“And whenever any one informs us that he has found a man who knows all the arts, and all things else that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“God doesn't expect us to be a walking encyclopedia of biblical knowledge. He wants us to know Him, to be in a… — Tyler Edwards Copy Share Image
“...What I have denied and what my reason compels me to deny, is the existence of a Being throned above us as… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
It's where we're nearest to our humanness. Useless knowledge for its own sake. Useful knowledge is good, too, but it's for the… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Do you realize the unimaginable greatness, the holiness of what you so casually call 'consciousness'? It is the unmanifest Absolute aware of… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
“mindful approach to any activity has three characteristics: the continuous creation of new categories; openness to new information; and an implicit awareness… — Ellen J. Langer Copy Share Image
Often the desire to appear competent impedes our ability to become competent, because we more anxious to display our knowledge than to… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
“Or on retiring to Prunesquallors' he might take down one of the Doctor's many books and read, for these days a passion… — Mervyn Peake Copy Share Image
The knowledge you have through so much shooting, so much work you do, you develop yourself very fast. And because of the… — Kim Bodnia Copy Share Image
“I remember Bob saying, 'Some people who believe in God are good, and some people who believe in God are not good.… — Leslie Berlin Copy Share Image
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