Knowledge Quote by Mortimer J. Adler Download Open image ““intelligent action depends on knowledge. Knowledge”” — Mortimer J. Adler ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Knowledge
“Knowledge acted upon makes all the difference, produces the different results we have in life.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“There are no intelligent people, only intelligent actions carried out by certain people in contexts that offer the opportunity for such action to take… — Lene Tanggaard Copy Share Image
“What is essence of knowledge, if it does not change the way we act?” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
“Knowledge is ever greater and more powerful than man. To walk the path of knowledge is to fight for survival; therefore if you come… — Théun Mares Copy Share Image
“Knowledge is power. Knowledge is creativity. Knowledge is never wasted.” — Wayne English Copy Share Image
“Knowledge is of the intellect; wisdom and understanding are of the heart.” — Ernest Holmes Copy Share Image
“Knowledge is power: You hear it all the time but knowledge is not power. It's only potential power. It only becomes power when we… — Jim Kwik Copy Share Image
“The characteristics of this kind of reading are perhaps summed up in the word “orthodox,” which is almost always applicable. The word comes from… — Mortimer J. Adler Copy Share Image
“We are not told, or not told early enough so that it sinks in, that mathematics is a language, and that we can learn… — Mortimer J. Adler Copy Share Image
“Even when you have been somewhat enlightened by what you have read, you are called upon to continue the serach for significance.” — Mortimer J. Adler Copy Share Image
“Even a cursory perusal reveals a very great range of reference. There is hardly a single human action that has not been called—in one… — Mortimer J. Adler Copy Share Image
“Reading is like skiing. When done well, when done by an expert, both reading and skiing are graceful, harmonious, activities. When done by a… — Mortimer J. Adler Copy Share Image
“You must be able to say, with reasonable certainty, "I understand," before you can say "I agree," or "I disagree," or "I suspend judgment.” — Mortimer J. Adler Copy Share Image
“We hope you have not made the error of supposing that to criticize is always to disagree. (...) To agree is just as much… — Mortimer J. Adler Copy Share Image
“The communion that can be achieved by human conversation is of great significance for our private lives...It is the spiritual parallel of the physical… — Mortimer J. Adler Copy Share Image
“In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many… — Mortimer J. Adler Copy Share Image
“Great speed in reading is a dubious achievement; it is of value only if what you have to read is not worth reading. A… — Mortimer J. Adler Copy Share Image
“Francis Bacon once remarked that “some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.” Reading… — Mortimer J. Adler Copy Share Image
For successful education there must always be a certain freshness in the knowledge dealt with. It must be either new in itself or invested… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Nothing is so powerful as an insight into human nature... what compulsions drive a man, what instincts dominate his action. If you know these… — William Bernbach Copy Share Image
But I already saw no great difference between the psyche and spirituality. To amass knowledge without becoming wise is not my idea of progress… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
If we will not interfere with our thought, but will act entirely, or see how the thing stands in God, we know the particular… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
An enlightened awareness is within each one of us, right at this moment. This enlightened awareness is truly unborn and marvellously illuminating; and everything… — Bankei Yotaku Copy Share Image
One of the deepest and strangest of all human moods is the mood which will suddenly strike us perhaps in a garden at night,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I never knew any man who had once tasted the sweetness of experimental knowledge, that ever afterward fasted after ye Vapour garlick and onions… — Carl Zimmer Copy Share Image
I would rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent than in the extent of my powers and dominion. — Alexander the Great Copy Share Image
We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I've always been a believer in research. It's great to have an instinctual human reaction to a character, too, of course, but it has… — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share Image
I am an aware citizen, so I want my characters to be aware, too. They should be aware of what's happening in the society… — Pankaj Tripathi Copy Share Image
