“Schopenhauer remarked that buying books would be better if you could also buy the time to read them. Books are different from… — John Durham Peters Copy Share Image
The only progress that knowledge allows is in enabling us to describe more and more in detail the world we see and… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
We've got to start thinking of school as a lifelong process. That's the only way we'll keep abreast and be able to… — Price Pritchett Copy Share Image
“This intriguing 'somewhere else,' where intelligence no longer matters and awareness melts away, commands us to cherish our remains of innocence --… — Hans Silvester Copy Share Image
Nature does not know extinction; all it knows is transformation. ... Everything science has taught me-and continues to teach me-strengthens my belief… — Wernher von Braun Copy Share Image
“Astride of a grave and a difficult birth. Down in the hole, lingeringly, the grave digger puts on the forceps. We have… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
“And so seated next to my father in the train compartment, I suddenly asked, "Father, what is sexsin?" He turned to look… — Corrie Ten Boom Copy Share Image
Everyone knows that time is Death, that Death hides in clocks. Imposing another time powered by the Clock of the Imagination, however,… — Federico Fellini Copy Share Image
It is true that of far the greater part of things, we must content ourselves with such knowledge as description may exhibit,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
There's a reason most Republicans and a vast majority of voters loathe Donald Trump: his vulgarity, his blistering ignorance, his constant dishonesty,… — Rick Wilson Copy Share Image
It is not necessary that if you have knowledge, you also have the wisdom; once you will be able to spread over… — Asif Z Warsi Copy Share Image
“You say you are ready to deliver your knowledge to another person. You want to hold the Truth in your palm as… — Elif Shafak Copy Share Image
“Darkness is, in reality, nothing but the lack of light. So, darkness is natural, light is unnatural. Yet, it is light that… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“The Absolute is Consciousness. It is always Self-conscious, meaning it is always aware of itself and its divine nature. The Self-awareness of… — Balajinnatha Pandita Copy Share Image
If you are an open-minded and tolerant Muslim, you have enough knowledge to question the moves of a Christian governor or even… — Lupe Fiasco Copy Share Image
“The application of this knife, the division of the world into parts and the building of this structure, is something everybody does.… — Pirsig, Robert M Copy Share Image
“There is an age at which we teach what we know. Then comes another age at which we teach what we do… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“Many of the gaps in my knowledge and understanding were simply limits of class and cultural background, not lack of aptitude or… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
I find myself going to places where I really have no business, speaking to these people in a whole other field that… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
“When certain circumstances of the body tend to happen, the time for insolvency begins. Everything indeed is going to go into insolvency.… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“Who sees the many and not the one, wanders on from death to death. Even by the mind this truth is to… — Upanishad Copy Share Image
My writings are an exploration, and I think a lot of writers would tell you this, but in writing, you're not simply… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
“13. “Knowledge stands for the arrival (husûl ) in the soul of some concept (ma- na) in a way that does not… — Franz Rosenthal Copy Share Image
You can never represent yourself totally … to seek self -knowledge is to embark on a journey which ... will always be… — Douglas Hofstadter Copy Share Image
Bealer argues that the kind of naturalistic view which Quine holds will rob him of the ability to make the normative claims… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
“The Lord says that "truth is knowledge of things as they are and as they were, and as they are to come"… — Charles W. Penrose Copy Share Image
Everything is pointing to one's own activity of looking, to an awareness and sort of hyper-consciousness of visual perception. The only way… — Uta Barth Copy Share Image
“[Materialism] seeks the primary and most simple state of matter, and then tries to develop all the others from it; ascending from… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
This is an age of intellectual sauces, of essence, of distillation. We have conclusions without deductions, abridgments of history and abridgments of… — Benjamin Haydon Copy Share Image
I've been an educator all my life pretty much. It's important as a manager and also as a record label, to educate… — Mathew Knowles Copy Share Image
“The study of truth requires a considerable effort - which is why few are willing to undertake it out of love of… — St. Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
It's public knowledge that there have been efforts - as U.S. intelligence sources have said - by Russia to destabilize the U.S.… — Chrystia Freeland Copy Share Image
If you don't take the lamp of awareness with you, you are going to create a hell around you. Light your lamp… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“The power of skills and knowledge is that they are transferable from one person to another. Their limitation is that they are… — Marcus Buckingham Copy Share Image
When you see the abyss, and we have looked into it, then what? There isn't much room at the edge -- one… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
The photograph contains and constrains within its own boundaries, excluding all else, a microcosmic analogue of the framing of space which is… — Elizabeth Edwards Copy Share Image
Perfect love casts out fear. Where there is love there are no demands, no expectations, no dependency. I do not demand that… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
“Wisdom is essentially the same thing as common sense, the slight difference is that common sense provides the ability to react appropriately,… — Ben Carson Copy Share Image
At the age of three I began to look around my grandfather's library. My first knowledge of astronomy came from reading and… — Jesse L. Greenstein Copy Share Image
“In the beginning.. when ray and day hadn't yet come into existence at all, there was a kind of radiance that illuminates… — Toba Beta Copy Share Image