Prayer and praise are the oars by which a man may row his boat into the deep waters of the knowledge of Christ.
As areas of knowledge grow, so too do the perimeters of ignorance.
Have you heard of this new thing called the internet? It's giving people new expectations. It's allowing them to become their own expert. Knowledge lies anxious at their fingertips. Gloss over the truth in your advertising and you'll quickly be dismissed as a poser.
Knowledge and action combined can win over any adversity known to man.
As soon as the circumstances of an experiment are well known, we stop gathering statistics. . . . The effect will occur always without exception, because the cause of the phenomena is accurately defined. Only when a phenomenon includes conditions as yet undefined,Only when a phenomenon includes conditions as yet undefined, can we compile statistics. . . . we must learn therefore that we compile statistics only when we cannot possibly help it; for in my opinion, statistics can never yield scientific truth.
There lies before us, if we choose, continual progress in happiness, knowledge and wisdom. Shall we instead choose death, because we cannot forget our quarrels? I appeal as a human being to human beings; remember your humanity, and forget the rest.
I am a physician. I keep a drug-shop of lies. I give relief, consolation. Can one console and relieve without lying?. . . Only women and doctors know how necessary and how helpful lies are to men.
Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.
There is little difference in the knowledge held by those who can't learn and those who won't.
Book - Learning : The dunce's derisive term for all knowledge that transcends his own impertinent ignorance.
I'm trying to readedit my story as if I have no existing knowledge of the story, no investment in it, no sense of what Herculean effort went into writing page 23, no pretensions as to why the dull patch on page 4 is important for the fireworks that will happen on page 714.
Metaphor is our mental root of imagination and language. Arnold Kozak offers fertile metaphors for growing your knowledge of the Buddhadharma. If you contemplate these brief stories, your emotional intelligence and mindfulness will develop effortlessly from the insights they provide.
Science. . . looks skeptically at all claims to knowledge, old and new. It teaches not blind obedience to those in authority but to vigorous debate, and in many respects that's the secret of its success.
Hip is the knowledge and Hop is the movement.
Knowledge is not a loose leaf notebook of facts.
Conversation is a meeting of minds with different memories and habits. When minds meet, they don't just exchange facts: they transform them, reshape them, draw different implications from them, engage in new trains of thought. Conversation doesn't just reshuffle the cards: it creates new cards.
No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.
The strongest knowledge (that of the total freedom of the human will) is nonetheless the poorest in successes: for it always has the strongest opponent, human vanity.
Those who are right do not argue. Those who argue are not right.