Knowledge Quotes - Page 8

The Seeker, The Teacher and The Genius:Knowing is an art; communicating that knowledge is art twice over; but it is only the genius who can use that knowledge.

While my friends struggled and calculated, I reached a solution by a set of floating steps that were partly visual, partly just a feeling for what was right. It was hard to explain how I knew what I knew.

Sometimes there is no comfort, only the knowledge that the worst has happened

Orma moved a pile of books off a stool for me but seated himself directly on another stack. This habit of his never ceased to amuse me. Dragons no longer hoarded gold; Comonot's reforms had outlawed it. For Orma and his generation, knowledge was treasure. As dragons through the ages had done, he gathered it and then he sat on it.

A best friend is he who can emulate a dog but still can talk.

Debasish Mridha

I am not a teacher, I am a friend who cares.

Debasish Mridha

Knowledge alone is not enough, but with hard work it's worth progression.

The greatest of fools are those who fail to mark the invisible from the nonexistent.

As the dew drop slides down the leaf to wet the soil, they call it "fall in love". Yet, do we know the way up from the way down?

Some persons fancy that bias and counter-bias are favorable to the extraction of truth–that hot and partisan debate is the way to investigate. This is the theory of our atrocious legal procedure. But Logic puts its heel upon this suggestion. It irrefragably demonstrates that knowledge can only be furthered by the real desire for it, and that the methods of obstinacy, of authority and every mode of trying to reach a foregone conclusion, are absolutely of no value. These things are proved. The reader is at liberty to think so or not as long as the proof is not set forth, or as long as he refrains from examining it. Just so, he can preserve, if he likes, his freedom of opinion in regard to the propositions of geometry; only, in that case, if he takes a fancy to read Euclid, he will do well to skip whatever he finds with A, B, C, etc., for, if he reads attentively that disagreeable matter, the freedom of his opinion about geometry may unhappily be lost forever.

Charles Sanders Peirce

Books and knowledge are the two most powerful drugs.

Meghan Blistinsky

She had stumbled on what was possibly the ultimate truth, the greatest wisdom of all - the search for knowledge never ends. It goes on and on forever.

Serving with love, a kind heart, and without expectations is happiness.

Debasish Mridha

When you let it go with love, but without expectations, it is forever yours.

Debasish Mridha

I miss those times when I hadn't a clue.

Marina Leigh Hatfield

Do you think that romantic love is natural; that the life of trade is honorable; that freedom of worship is desirable? Very likely you think none of those things; you have uncritically absorbed them, and only since you came to college begun to learn that they are al comparatively recent and local notions, the products of past conflicts and choices. As the hand of the dyer is tinged by what it works in, so your tastes, ambitions, and values take their quality from a context that was created for you before you were born.

Denham Sutcliffe

Doing what has never been done before is intellectually seductive, whether or not we deem it practical.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Your knowledge of failure is the way for the new phase of it!

Ignorance leads to destruction.

A man who truly knows himself realizes his own worthlessness, and takes no pleasure in the praises of men.

Thomas à Kempis

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

Astride of a grave and a difficult birth.Down in the hole, lingeringly, the grave digger puts on the forceps.We have time to grow old.The air is full of our cries.But habit is a great deadener.At me too someone is looking, of me too someone is saying, He is sleeping, he knows nothing.Let him sleep on.

Never underestimate the importance of tragedy in life. Don't fear it, make it the mirror of your life.

Debasish Mridha

A critic must be knowledgeable in several fields, practices, and mediums. Brushing off art that they personally don't understand, is not a critique.

Justin K. McFarlane Beau

Only a man of knowledge is capable of giving constructive criticism.

If we not only feed that most intelligent computer which is our brain but also compute the data we collect, we cannot go wrong. In a way we all can guess what will happen.

Gisela Hausmann

The fate of the physiology of the brain is independent of the truth and falsity of my assertions relative to the laws of the organization of the nervous system, in general, and of the brain in particular, just as the knowledge of the functions of a sense is independent of the knowledge of the structure of its apparatus.

Franz Joseph Gall

Our brain is so full of nonsense there is no room for common sense.

Debasish Mridha

Happiness comes from your mindset.

Debasish Mridha

Happiness is not a condition but a mindset.

Debasish Mridha

human desires are the main cause of suffering

Siddhattha Gotama Buddha

When you abbreviate your learning, you abbreviate your growth. Expand your knowledge and you keep growing taller and fatter than your limitations.

Israelmore Ayivor

Back then: to be paid more, one needed to increase the number of things that are by him known. Today: to be paid more, one needs to increase the number of people by whom he is known.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

To learn, read; to understand, participate.

Debasish Mridha

I am not proud that i know so much. I am humbled that there is so much to learn, and i haven't been able to understand the little i have been priviledged to know.

Judging is acting on a limited knowledge. Learn the art of observing without evaluating.

It is good netiquette to use the internet for online education. Learn new things. NetworkEtiquette.net

A book is a garden, only its flowers are ideas.

Matshona Dhliwayo

A book is a small library you can fit into your pocket.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Not all slaves are poor, and not all free men are rich.

Matshona Dhliwayo

It is easier to kill a million armed men than a single unarmed idea.

Matshona Dhliwayo

One who sharpens his sword before sharpening his mind has already been conquered by ignorance.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Ignorance is the greatest slave master in the universe.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Columbus gave Europe a New World; [Alexander von] Humboldt made it known in its physical, material, intellectual, and moral aspects.

José Cipriano de la Luz y Caballero

This man [Alexander von Humboldt] is as knowledgeable as a whole academy.

Claude Louis Berthollet

Do not quarrel or restlessly seek for more knowledge, until you have given proper honor to what you already know.

Life and love are not about what you know, but about what you know you don't know.

I'm afraid Dr. Mondrick chose an unfortunate publicity device. After all, the theory of human evolution is no longer front page news. Every known detail of the origin of mankind is extremely important to such a specialist as Dr. Mondrick, but it doesn't interest the man in the street - not unless it's dramatized.

Jack Williamson

It has been known for many years that a subset of the population cannot tolerate the radiation emitted by transmitting utility meters and sickness results in these people.

The process of letting go is an act of accepting.

Debasish Mridha

Our goal of all goals and ultimate purpose of life is happiness.

Debasish Mridha

Happiness is the goal of all goals and ultimate purpose of our life.

Debasish Mridha

Sharing is the first stage to the evolution of the intellectual.

Aswin Devarajan

Intelligence is knowing the right answer. Wisdom is knowing when to say it.

Tim Fargo

The knowledge we need, we are predisposed to seeking, intuitively.A fool does not know, what to do with importance, how to gauge importance, but they readily seek influence.The corrupt didn't find the expanse of life giving thought, because their self is their center; the stagnant find it hard to revolve.The wise do not subscribe to the fodder that feeds the herd, because they are not predisposed to being swept along in banal minutiae.

Justin K. McFarlane Beau

Wise words are like seeds. The more you scatter them, the more they will grow into infinite gardens of knowledge.

Schooling gives you knowledge, but education makes you wise.

Debasish Mridha

To be knowledgeable, learn new things every day; to be wise, unlearn things that you learn with wit and love.

Debasish Mridha

Money can buy you knowledge, but not the wisdom to use it wisely.

We are living in a world where Ignorance is celebrated as wisdom and Wisdom sidelined as Ignorance.

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