Knowledge drifts in and out of my mind", said Lestat with a little look of honest distress and a shake of his head. "I devour it and then I lose it and sometimes I can't reach for any knowledge that I ought to possess. I feel desolate, but then knowl...
[W]e, being who and what we are, cannot know unless we are taught by that which is other than we, and that means by the Spirit of God, albeit in diverse mediations. Though nature is relatively passive under our enquiry… it remains true that knowled...
What can we make of the inexpressible joy of children? It is a kind of gratitude, I think—the gratitude of the ten-year-old who wakes to her own energy and the brisk challenge of the world. You thought you knew the place and all its routines, but y...
Love and seek for knowledge.
In your thirst for knowledge, be sure not to drown in all the information.
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
Scientia is knowledge. It is only in the popular mind that it is equated with facts.
We don't focus as much in schools on educational knowledge which requires thinking and application, as we do on acquiring facts.
wisdom is the beacon of knowledge
Sometimes, sitting there on the cushion failing to watch your breath, it can feel like you’re the only weirdo weird enough to be wasting your time in this way. But you’re not! There are generations of weirdos, monasteries full of them, and we hav...
Major John Reisman: Which one of you guys wants to be a general? [to Pinkley] Major John Reisman: Pinkley? Pinkley: What kind of general, sir? Major John Reisman: Just a plain, ordinary, every day, home-lovin' American general. Pinkley: I'd rather be...
Read it wisely, Little One, for the power of ignorance is great.
I'd like to be remembered as good person and as one of the best comedians of my generation.
Hardly any generation wants to take the whole of the last generation, it just wants to take its best bits.
In my generation, there was no sushi school, no cooking school, so people have to learn from working.
Yes, it's important to inspire the next generation but let's not forget to inspire the now generation too.
'Niggy Tardust' is the voice of a generation, a generation that does not define itself simply by what it's born into.
You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public.
I generally edit quite heavily. In general, there aren't many scenes that are sitting where they sat in the script in the final form.
Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience... from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
Like a precious family heirloom, freedom is not just ours to enjoy, but to treasure, protect, and pass on to future generations.
