My father was a doctor, but he was what I would call an intellectual - very well-read and very interested in knowledge.… — Shirin Neshat Copy Share Image
“To become aware of what is constant in the flux of nature and life is the first step in abstract thinking. The… — Hellmut and Richard Welhelm Copy Share Image
I know not how I seem to others, but to myself I am but a small child wandering upon the vast shores… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
Knowledge is what we are informed about,it is impacted in us,but how we apply the awareness is your wisdom. is not a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The essence of education is, in the words of William James, to teach a person what deserves to be valued, to impart… — William J. Bennett Copy Share Image
Without any doubt, the regularity which astronomy shows us in the movements of the comets takes place in all phenomena. The trajectory… — Pierre-Simon Laplace Copy Share Image
“The Cardinal was bent over his writing desk, the room unchanged save for the light of what appeared a small antique oil… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“Lord! Give me that intelligence, so I may realize the Self. Give me spiritual riches, so I may learn better to share.… — Gian Kumar Copy Share Image
“Through what has one seen this (AKRAM) Science (stepless path to liberation)? Through pragna shakti (energy and power of the Pure Soul).… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“At the moment, when one feels, 'I can't do it', then today's knowledge shows that, 'I should do this', whereas the past… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“Naturally occurring timeless awareness—utterly lucid awakened mind— is something marvelous and superb, primordially and spontaneously present. It is the treasury from which… — Longchen Rabjam Copy Share Image
The modern world’s tech-giddy control and facilitation makes us stupid. Awareness atrophies. Dumb gets dumber. Lists are everywhere – the five things… — Roger Cohen Copy Share Image
I have a friend who's an artist, and he sometimes takes a view which I don't agree with. He'll hold up a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
UNU provides a continuous feedback loop of the group's preference for a choice, as well as its conviction. People are adjusting their… — Louis B. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
“He thinks and speaks with a ruthlessness that makes no attempt to find dialectical excuses for the eternal uncertainty of humankind. Anyone… — Juli Zeh Copy Share Image
When we look back in time and study old cultures and people, we are impressed that death has always been distasteful to… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Copy Share Image
The meditator develops new depths of insight through direct communication with the reality of the phenomenal world... He or she is able… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
“You will benefit if you devotionally view the one who has both stillness in his eyes and a contented state of chit… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“We do not come to ‘know’ an entity theoretically through contemplative knowledge in the first instance. As we have already seen, we… — Barbara Bolt Copy Share Image
The first time I went through YC, it was smaller, and the founders were younger. The advantage of that was that the… — Michael Seibel Copy Share Image
“What was to be the value of the long looked forward to, Long hoped for calm, the autumnal serenity And the wisdom… — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“Rest. Then speak of what you know. Show them what you have seen. Witness until their comfort yields to questions. Till their… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
When does one ever know a human being? Perhaps only after one has realized the impossibility of knowledge and renounced the desire… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
“Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods." [Preface… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Promote then as an object of primary importance, Institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a… — George Washington Copy Share Image
I do feel fortunate to have some knowledge of the great Latin American writers, including some that are probably not that well… — Daniel Alarcon Copy Share Image
“The Knowledge (Gnan) is itself the absolute Self (Parmatma). Gnan (Knowledge) never becomes agnan (ignorance), but the applied awareness changes and that… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
The more Adams thought about the future of his country, the more convinced he became that it rested on education. Before any… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
“So, your best defense is knowledge. It really is power, as they say...The more you know, the more easily you will develop… — Elizabeth Pantley Copy Share Image
The first thing is to learn how to quiet the mind, relax the mind, and bring the awareness to the front so… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
Information is not synonymous with knowledge. Information is only data, parts of the whole. Knowledge has a moral imperative to enhance intellectual… — Ruth Nanda Anshen Copy Share Image
“The hypothesis of God, for instance, gives an incomparably absolute opportunity to understand everything and know absolutely nothing. Give man an extremely… — Arkady Strugatsky Copy Share Image
“In any given culture and at any given moment, there is always only one 'episteme' that defines the conditions of possibility of… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
“My foot slips on a narrow ledge; in that split second, as needles of fear pierce heart and temples, eternity intersects with… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
“I’m curious about everyone, hungry for everything, greedy for all ideas. My awareness that not everything can be seen, not everything read… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Perpetual wakefulness doesn't mean you have all physical knowledge, that you can speak all languages, that you can fix cars...that is a… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Today is my thirtieth birthday and I sit on the ocean wave in the schoolyard and wait for Kate and think of… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
“One time, when we'd been discussing martial arts, Murphy told me that eventually, no-one can teach you anything more about them. Once… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
In the Marvel universe, vibranium has always been this material that absorbs kinetic energy. And any tiny bit of physics knowledge will… — Brian Stelfreeze Copy Share Image
“One major factor that makes most achievers to fail is their ability to know where they are going and becoming unaware of… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image