Knowledge Quotes - Page 61

Esteem intelligence, cherish knowledge, and value understanding, but trust wisdom.

To be relevant, you must seek knowledge.

Pleasure awakens the body, wisdom awakens the mind, joy awakens the heart, and love awakens the soul.

Knowledge offers you strength. Wisdom promises you influence. Understanding assures you wealth. Love guarantees you power.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Your knowledge can stir the world, your intellect can move it, your wisdom can shake it, but only your love can truly change it.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Knowledge, teach. Wisdom, acquire. Understanding, share. Love, spread.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Truth is my weapon. Knowledge is my armor. Wisdom is my strategist. Love is my warrior.

Matshona Dhliwayo

If knowing something got you where you needed to go, you'd be there already. Put your hand to your heart, take a deep breath in...listen to your heart. It knows.

Eileen Anglin

What is more important to a library than anything else -- than everything else -- is the fact that it ex

Archibald MacLeish

A library implies an act of faith which generations, still in darkness hid, sign in their night in witness of the

Victor Hugo

Later times have laid all the blame upon the Goths and Vandals, but, however unwilling the partizans of the Christian system may be to believe or to acknowledge it, it is nevertheless true, that the age of ignorance commenced with the Christian system.There was more knowledge in the world before that period, than for many centuries afterwards; and as to religious knowledge, the Christian system, as already said, was only another species of mythology; and the mythology to which it succeeded, was a corruption of an ancient system of t

Thomas Paine

...What I have denied and what my reason compels me to deny, is the existence of a Being throned above us as a god, directing our mundane affairs in detail, regarding us as individuals, punishing us, rewarding us as human judges might.When the churches learn to take this rational view of things, when they become true schools of ethics and stop teaching fables, they will be more effective than they are to-day... If they would turn all that ability to teaching this one thing – the fact that honesty is best, that selfishness and lies of any sort must surely fail to produce happiness – they would accomplish actual things. Religious faiths and creeds have greatly hampered our development. They have absorbed and wasted some fine intellects. That creeds are getting to be less and less important to the average mind with every passing year is a good sign, I think, although I do not wish to talk about what is commonly called theology.The criticisms which have been hurled at me have not worried me. A man cannot control his beliefs. If he is honest in his frank expression of them, that is all that can in justice be required of him. Professor Thomson and a thousand others do not in the least agree with me. His criticism of me, as I read it, charged that because I doubted the soul’s immortality, or ‘personality,’ as he called it, my mind must be abnormal, ‘pathological,’ in other, words, diseased... I try to say exactly what I honestly believe to be the truth, and more than that no man can do. I honestly believe that creedists have built up a mighty structure of inaccuracy, based, curiously, on those fundamental truths which I, with every honest man, must not alone admit but earnestly acclaim.I have been working on the same lines for many years. I have tried to go as far as possible toward the bottom of each subject I have studied. I have not reached my conclusions through study of traditions; I have reached them through the study of hard fact. I cannot see that unproved theories or sentiment should be permitted to have influence in the building of conviction upon matters so important. Science proves its theories or it rejects them. I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious theories of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or of a personal God. I earnestly believe that I am right; I cannot help believing as I do... I cannot accept as final any theory which is not provable. The theories of the theologians cannot be proved. Proof, proof! That is what I always have been after; that is what my mind requires before it can accept a theory as fact. Some things are provable, some things disprovable, some things are doubtful. All the problems which perplex us, now, will, soon or late, be solved, and solved beyond a question through scientific investigation. The thing which most impresses me about theology is that it does not seem to be investigating. It seems to be asserting, merely, without actual study....Moral teaching is the thing we need most in this world, and many of these men could be great moral teachers if they would but give their whole time to it, and to scientific search for the rock-bottom truth, instead of wasting it upon expounding theories of theology which are not in the first place firmly based. What we need is search for fundamentals, not reiteration of traditions born in days when men knew even less than we d

Thomas A. Edison

Thomas Paine

Thomas A. Edison

Knowledge itself is power

Francis Bacon

Unfortunately for the university, none of that information could make the slightest place for itself inside the circuits of my brain. I was looking for education, but all I found was heartless indoctrination. And indoctrination is not just demeaning to the human conscience, it is lethal for the flourishing psychology of the hungry, young mind.

Abhijit Naskar

All systems of the society are meant to serve the mind, not the mind to serve the systems.

Abhijit Naskar

Knowledge in our heads is useless. Its power is unleashed only when it is shared.

Mansur Hasib

This is not Education. It is a process of manufacturing computation devices that look like Homo sapiens.

Abhijit Naskar

The flow of knowledge towards the mind should be moderated by the faculties of the mind itself, based on the acceptability of nothing but the mind.

Abhijit Naskar

The world needs teachers – teachers who have broken their own shackles of indoctrination – teachers who can go beyond the narrow-mindedness of the society. A handful of these young, brave and zealous teachers in every nation, shall be enough to rekindle the spark of pure knowledge in the entire species.

Abhijit Naskar

In Uganda, I wrote a questionaire that I had my research assistants give; on it, I asked about the embalasassa, a speckled lizard said to be poisonous and to have been sent by Prime minsister Milton Obote to kill Baganda in the late 1960s. It is not poisonous and was no more common in the 1960s than it had been in previous decades, as Makerere University science professors announced on the radio and stated in print… I wrote the question, What is the difference between basimamoto and embalasassa? Anyone who knows anything about the Bantu language—myself included—would know the answer was contained in the question: humans and reptiles are different living things and belong to different noun classes… A few of my informants corrected my ignorance… but many, many more ignored the translation in my question and moved beyond it to address the history of the constructs of firemen and poisonous lizards without the slightest hesitation. They disregarded language to engage in a discussion of events… My point is not about the truth of the embalasassa story… but rather that the labeling of one thing as ‘true’ and the other as ‘fictive’ or ‘metaphorical’—all the usual polite academic terms for false—may eclipse all the intricate ways in which people use social truths to talk about the past. Moreover, chronological contradictions may foreground the fuzziness of certain ideas and policies, and that fuzziness may be more accurate than any exact historical reconstruction… Whether the story of the poisionous embalasassa was real was hardly the issue; there was a real, harmless lizard and there was a real time when people in and around Kampala feared the embalasassa. They feared it in part because of beliefs about lizards, but mainly what frightened people was their fear of their government and the lengths to which it would go to harm them. The confusions and the misunderstandings show what is important; knowledge about the actual lizard would not.

Luise White

The courage to ask question is a daring act.

Lailah Gifty Akita

What kills leadership growth isn't ignorance, but rather the illusion of knowledge.

Orrin Woodward

Read and search for the answers you seek.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Our knowledge is limited. However, reading augments our knowledge.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Knowledge has a great power. Therefore, unethical use of knowledge can be extremely harmful.

Eraldo Banovac

People are afraid of knowledge that is not yet theirs.

Madeleine L'Engle

Creativity is an amazing human characteristic, which is more connected with curiosity than with knowledge.

Eraldo Banovac

It must once again become a common knowledge to our people that it is only the wealth that we create that we can share.

Sunday Adelaja

Knowing beauty is not what can be described but felt, upon looking at something beautiful.

Benjamin Meadows

The base is as strong as the foundation, the tree's trunk as sturdy as the depth it took root. And when we witness this the questions of past introspection could also be: When did certain reinforcements of that foundation get established?And why were there cracks to begin with?...that could take you so far back depending on the person, for that matter, any intelligent life-form, to make you ask:How could I compassionately hold anyone so against what I know I possibly once did myself?

James Emlund

I wanted to pursue things, to know things, but I could not match the means of knowing that came naturally to me with the expectations of professors. The pursuit of knowing was freedom to me, the right to declare your own curiosities and follow them through all manner of books. I was made fore the library, not the classroom. The classroom was a jail of other people's interests. The library was open, unending, free. Slowly, I was discovering myself.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

She was spoiled, but she wasn't lazy. She knew what she wanted, and because she believed absolutely that she could have everything she wanted if she tried hard enough to get it, she never stopped trying.

Cecily von Ziegesar

I do what I do because I love God, as I love your children, as I love humanity, as I love peace, truth, and justice for all. I may not be a fan of religion, but I am a big fan of God. I choose not to subscribe to any one religion because I recognize truths in them all — both the truths and flaws. For anybody to believe that any father would want to see his children fighting is madness. It does not make the Creator happy to see anybody massacre any of his beautiful creations. If you must know the religion I choose, I choose LOVE. If you must know the name of my god, his name is Truth, or rather 'He Who is One, The One Who is All.

Suzy Kassem

Happy is the man who has learned the causes of things.

Virgil

The study of Scripture I find to be quite like mastering an instrument. No one is so good that they cannot get any better; no one knows so much that they can know no more. A professional can spot an amateur or a lack of practice or experience a mile away. His technicality, his spiritual ear is razor-sharp. He is familiar with the common mistakes, the counter-arguments; and insofar as this, he can clearly distinguish the difference between honest critics of the Faith and mere fools who criticize that which they know nothing.

Criss Jami

Textbook intelligence is not true intelligence. It only marks a man good at memorization.

Suzy Kassem

Life's greatest lessons were not shown to me, read to me, illustrated or explained to me; they happened to me.

Richelle E. Goodrich

Man thinks many things. He thinks he is One. He is usually several. Until he becomes One, he cannot have a fair idea of what he is at all.

Idries Shah

The inquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or the wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature.

Francis Bacon

Believing that there is a conflict between rationality and spirituality is like believing that there is a conflict between knowledge and inspiration.

Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski

Just as the bird needs wings to fly, a leader needs useful information to flow. Leaders learn.

Israelmore Ayivor

There are three characteristics of wisdom: knowledge, experience and patience.

Eraldo Banovac

Knowledge is not the same as wisdom. You can know all the facts and still not be able to act wisely. But without knowledge, it is harder to be wise –– even if what wisdom tells us is that knowledge is very often provisional and that we cannot wait to have certainty about every fact before we act.

Dan Smith

Knowledge is a beautiful thing that can fill us with happiness. Let’s just think about our students who answered brilliantly to questions on various exams.

Eraldo Banovac

It must once again become a common knowledge to our people that it is only the wealth that we create that we can share

Sunday Adelaja

A self-leader cries for no followers by himself. He does his thing and people get to know him, chase him and learn from him.

Israelmore Ayivor

Do not just accept anything without questioning.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Dare to seek answers to your questions.

Lailah Gifty Akita

The courage to ask question is the willingness to know.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Curiosity is the great motivator of an education. It’s the how of learning: how we go from not knowing something to knowing it inside and out.

Zander Sherman

If you assume that it is there, you will generally not be far off the truth.

Idries Shah

Knowledge is an exceptional kind of property which cannot be lost or used up.

Eraldo Banovac

A man of knowledge can certainly offer some reasonable options to solve a problem – the question is why such a man is not always included in problem solving

Eraldo Banovac

It is certain that there is no limit to the vast ocean of knowledge.

Eraldo Banovac

Knowledge is the key driver of the progress of civilization.

Eraldo Banovac

An epistemic methodology that sees the pursuit of knowledge as entirely congruent with the search for power is a great deal more cunning than wise. It can needlessly undermine the value of knowledge in satisfying curiosity and interest it significantly weakens one of the profound characteristics of human beings.

Amartya Sen

Regardless of one’s age, acquiring new knowledge has always been useful.

Eraldo Banovac

Knowledge as such can never be worthless.

Eraldo Banovac

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