Quotes of: General-knowledge Keyword

As a physician, we heal by sharing our bestowed power of knowledge, love, and compassion.

Debasish Mridha

Knowledge is a Bed of Roses; for Every Beautiful Flower, there are a Dozen Thorns to Match

Joshua Caleb

He that has doctrinal knowledge and speculation only, without affection, never is engaged in the business of religion.

Jonathan Edwards

The possession of facts is knowledge; the use of facts is wisdom; the creation of facts is covert action.

John Alejandro King

Forerun thy peers, thy time, and let Thy feet, millenniums hence, be set In midst of knowledge, dream'd not yet.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

The Book of Life was created as a tool for humans to use to grow in wisdom, knowledge, and power.

Stacy Snapp-Killian aka StacyK

Learn how to use people, their time, their money, their knowledge and their skills for your own benefit.

Life

We refuse to let our knowledge, however limited, be informed by your ignorance, however vast.

Life

If you don't synthesize knowledge, scientific journals become spare-parts catalogues for machines that are never built.

Life

The purpose of teachers should be to add to the sum of human knowers rather than the sum of human knowledge.

Life

The Internet is a collective hallucination: one of the best humanity has ever generated.

Jonathan Zittrain

Every generation is equidistant from God.

Leopold Von Ranke

For my own part, my constant prayer is that I may know the worst of my case, whatever the knowledge may cost me. I know that an accurate estimate of my own heart can never be otherwise than lowering to my self-esteem; but God forbid that I should be ...

Humility and How to Get It

Memorizing someone else’s explanation of the truth isn’t the same as seeing the truth for yourself. It is what it is—the memorization of second-hand knowledge. It is not your experience. It is not your knowledge. And no matter how much material...

Japanese Yoga: The Way of Dynamic Meditation

The Seeking of the Master. Musa Najib was asked why he charged a fee from those who came to his sessions; and why he often did not even address his audience. He said: 'I charge for this object lesson: people believe that knowledge must be given freel...

Reflections

To achieve accurate knowledge of others, if such a thing were possible, we could only ever arrive at it through the slow and unsure recognition of our own initial optical inaccuracies. However, such knowledge is not possible: for, while our vision of...

In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower

In order to align your life choices with your values, you will need to inquire about the effects of your actions (and inactions) on yourself and others. Although we are always stumbling upon new knowledge that shifts our choices and life direction, b...

Most Good, Least Harm: A Simple Principle for a Better World and Meaningful Life

Bodily delight is a sensory experience, not any different from pure looking or the pure feeling with which a beautiful fruit fills the tongue; it is a great, an infinite learning that is given to us, a knowledge of the world, the fullness and the spl...

Letters to a Young Poet

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 p...

Storymen

Now and then there are readings that make the hairs on the neck, the non-existent pelt, stand on end and tremble, when every word burns and shines hard and clear and infinite and exact, like stones of fire, like points of stars in the dark—readings...

Possession

Yes, there have been ET visitations. There have been crashed craft. There have been material and bodies recovered. There has been a certain amount of reverse engineering that has allowed some of these craft, or some components, to be duplicated. And ...

The Way of the Explorer: An Apollo Astronaut's Journey Through the Material and Mystical Worlds