Knowledge Quotes - Page 12

The goals of true education are to teach acceptance, tolerance, and nonviolence.

Reason is God's crowning gift to man, and you are rightTo warn me against losing mine. I cannot say—I hope that I shall never want to say!— that youHave reasoned badly. Yet there are other menWho can reason, too; and their opinions might be helpful.You are not in a position to know everythingThat people say or do, or what they feel:Your temper terrifies them—everyoneWill tell you only what you like to hear.

Sophocles

The moment men begin to care more for education than for religion they begin to care more for ambition than for education. It is no longer a world in which the souls of all are equal before heaven, but a world in which the mind of each is bent on achieving unequal advantage over the other. There begins to be a mere vanity in being educated whether it be self-educated or merely state-educated. Education ought to be a searchlight given to a man to explore everything, but very specially the things most distant from himself. Education tends to be a spotlight; which is centered entirely on himself. Some improvement may be made by turning equally vivid and perhaps vulgar spotlights upon a large number of other people as well. But the only final cure is to turn off the limelight and let him realize the stars.

G.K. Chesterton

Shun too great a desire for knowledge, for in it there is much fretting and delusion. Intellectuals like to appear learned and to be called wise. Yet there are many things the knowledge of which does little or no good to the soul, and he who concerns himself about other things than those which lead to salvation is very unwise.

Thomas à Kempis

To be content in utter darkness and ignorance is indeed unmanly, and therefore we think that to love light and find knowledge must always be right. Yet wherever pride has any share in the work, even knowledge and light may be ill pursued. Knowledge is good, and light is good: yet man perished in seeking knowledge, and moths perish in seeking light; and if we, who are crushed before the moth, will not accept such mystery as is needful to us, we shall perish in like manner.

John Ruskin

The pride of young men requires that they seem wise, despite their inexperience, and the only way to appear all-knowing without going to the tedium of acquiring knowledge, is to hold all knowledge in weary-seeming contempt.

John C. Wright

Mowaljarlai rarely answered questions with an abstract explanation; he always told a story. His was not a fragmented world, divided into the convenient disciplinary languages and jargon that seem to be required for the understanding of concepts and principles in, for example, mathematics, physics, art and literature. Not only did he not have these languages; he thought this was a strange way to arrive at understanding the way in which the world lives in itself. It baffled him that whitefellas developed their knowledge by busting things up, reducing things to little pieces separate from everything else that contributes to their nature. For him, everything in creation is not only living and interconnected, but exists in a story and story cycle. Yet his knowledge of what whitefellas call ‘science’ was extraordinary.”p80-1.

Hannah Rachel Bell

Nanabozho also had the task to learn how to live from his elder brothers and sisters. When he needed food, he noticed what the animals were eating and copied them. Heron taught him to gather wild rice. One night by the creek, he saw a little ring-tailed animal carefully washing his food with delicate hands. He thought, “Ahh, I am supposed to put only clean food in my body.”Nanabozho was counseled by many plants too, who shared gifts, and learned to treat them always with the greatest respect. After all, plants were here first on the earth and have had a long time to figure things out. Together, all the beings, both plants and animals, taught him what he needed to know. The Creator had told him it would be this way.

Robin Wall Kimmerer

Everyone's life changes when they meet their Obi-Wan & their Yoda, or their Morpheus & their Oracle; those who help remove the veil.

Brandi L. Bates

Be selective in your battles...

Brandi L. Bates

[It would not be long] ere the whole surface of this country would be channelled for those nerves which are to diffuse, with the speed of thought, a knowledge of all that is occurring throughout the land, making, in fact, one neighborhood of the whole country.

Samuel Morse

The benefit of such horizontal interactions - people sharing knowledge across fields - is that it encourages conceptual blending, which is an extremely important part of the insight process.

Jonah Lehrer

Time and time again when I talk to individuals about approaching love with will and intentionality, I hear the fear expressed that this will bring an end to romance. This is simply not so. Approaching romantic love from foundation of care, knowledge, and respect actually intensifies romance.

Bell Hooks

While knowledge is powerful it should be approached with the utmost respect and caution.

Abdulkadir Abdullahi Mohamed Mirre

Intelligence arouses fear and respect, the lack of it keeps one on the narrow minded road of disrespect, stupidity and inferiority complex.

Michael Bassey Johnson

True happiness will be there when we learn to respect and love our women.

Debasish Mridha

One might be led to question whether the scientists acted wisely in presenting the statesmen of the world with this appalling problem. Actually there was no choice. Once basic knowledge is acquired, any attempt at preventing its fruition would be as futile as hoping to stop the earth from revolving around the sun.

Enrico Fermi

The choices she's made have left her without choice.

Steven Galloway

Have a choice, learn the process and then go for the success.

Debasish Mridha

Happiness is not a destination but a choice.

Debasish Mridha

When you are in doubt and lost, to find the way, chose love.

Debasish Mridha

While one is young is the time to investigate, to experiment with everything. The school should help its young people to discover their vocations and responsibilities, and not merely cram their minds with facts and technical knowledge; it should be the soil in which they can grow without fear, happily and integrally.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Have you come over time to think that you know more now than you did when you were young, know less now than when young, know now there is so much more to know than you knew there was to know when young that it is moot whether you think you knew more then than now or less, or do you now know that you never knew anything at all and never will and only the bluster of youth persuaded you that you did or would?

Padgett Powell

Who was there to guard youth from pain and death - youth who could not, who had never been able to, guard itself? Did they know too little? Or was it that they knew too much, and therefore thought they knew it all?

Agatha Christie

Knowledge in youth is wisdom in age.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

Youth!! Ah, what a word!! And how transitory! But, how grand! as long as it lasts. How many millions in gold would pour out for an ability to call it all back, as with our musical myth, Faust. During that magic part of a child’s growth this world is just a gigantic inquiry box, containing many a topic for which a solution is paramount to a growing mind. And to whom can a child look, but us adults? Any man who “can’t stop now” to talk with a child upon a topic which, to him is“too silly for anything,” should look back to that day upon which that topic was dark and dubious in his own brain. A child who asks nothing will know nothing. That is why that “bump of inquiry” was put on top of our skulls.

Ernest Vincent Wright

Mind you, I cannot swear that my story is true. It may have been a dream; or worse, a symptom of some severe mental disorder. But I believe it is true. After all, how are we to know what things there are on earth? Strange monstrosities still exist, and foul, incredible perversions. Every war, each new geographical or scientific discovery, brings to light some new bit of ghastly evidence that the world is not altogether the same place we fondly imagine it to be. Sometimes peculiar incidents occur which hint of utter madness.How can we be sure that our smug conceptions of reality actually exist? To one man in a million dreadful knowledge is revealed, and the rest of us remain mercifully ignorant. There have been travelers who never came back, and research workers who disappeared. Some of those who did return were deemed mad because of what they told, and others sensibly concealed the wisdom that had so horribly been revealed. Blind as we are, we know a little of what lurks beneath our normal life. There have been tales of sea serpents and creatures of the deep; legends of dwarfs and giants; records of queer medical horrors and unnatural births. Stunted nightmares of men's personalities have blossomed into being under the awful stimulus of war, or pestilence, or famine. There have been cannibals, necrophiles, and ghouls; loathsome rites of worship and sacrifice; maniacal murders, and blasphemous crimes. When I think, then, of what I saw and heard, and compare it with certain other grotesque and unbelievable authenticities, I begin to fear for my reason.

Robert Bloch

Intelligence is a necessity, but when one is without a supernatural sense, intelligence becomes senseless.

Michael Bassey Johnson

A saving, though an immethodical knowledge of Christ, will bring us to heaven, John 17: 2, but a regular and methodical, as well as a saving knowledge of him, will bring heaven into us, Col. 2: 2, 3.

John Flavel

Do you, good people, believe that Adam and Eve were created in the Garden of Eden and that they were forbidden to eat from the tree of knowledge? I do. The church has always been afraid of that tree. It still is afraid of knowledge. Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas. So does whiskey. I believe in the brain of man.

Clarence Darrow

To have a productive happy life you have to focus on two things: focus on what you want and enjoy what you have.

Debasish Mridha

You are most happy when you can give yourself away to others.

Debasish Mridha

When I try to make other people happy, I become happy.

Debasish Mridha

To be happy, think about happiness, and see happiness and beauty in every little thing.

Debasish Mridha

When you engage in work that you love, you are happy.

Debasish Mridha

To be happy, you have to love and forgive.

Debasish Mridha

The ultimate purpose of our life is to be happy. We are born for happiness, we are going toward happiness, we like to live in happiness, and we like to vanish from this universe for eternal happiness.

Debasish Mridha

When you're happy only then you can spread the seeds of happiness around.

Debasish Mridha

If you are happy then you are the winner in the race we call life.

Debasish Mridha

If you chose to be happy,You will be happy.

Debasish Mridha

Change your perception and be happy where you are, how you are, with whom you are.

Debasish Mridha

Our main purpose of life is to be happy. Happiness is in simplicity, and the most amazing things about life is that it is so simple.

Debasish Mridha

The best way to be happy is to make someone else happy.

Debasish Mridha

Never pursue happiness, just be happy.

Debasish Mridha

Never try to be happy but always try to make someone happy. All the happiness in the world will be yours.

Debasish Mridha

You are as happy as you chose to be. So chose to be happy.

Debasish Mridha

Find out what makes you happy and do it. If you are happy, you bring happiness for the world.

Debasish Mridha

Be happy for what you have not for what you should have.

Debasish Mridha

We came to this world with nothing but love and blessing. The purpose of our life is to be happy by loving and serving.

Debasish Mridha

It is what you think, not what you achieve, that makes you happy.

Debasish Mridha

Trust your heart’s feeling, accept it and be happy.

Debasish Mridha

You are happy when you can enjoy the little things around you.

Debasish Mridha

If the purpose of your life is to seek happiness, you will be happy even if you are not a success.

Debasish Mridha

To be happy, find the happiness inside you; there is no better thing that you can do.

Debasish Mridha

I am happy in every moment and every day. My happiness depends on me, not on the way.

Debasish Mridha

It is so simple, to be happy think happiness.

Debasish Mridha

The only way to find happiness is to make someone happy.

Debasish Mridha

Find a place to think and a person to love and be happy.

Debasish Mridha

The one thing most important to anything else is to be happy.

Debasish Mridha

In the midst of life’s ups and down, beginnings and endings, let us live our life, let us be joyful, let us be happy.

Debasish Mridha

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