Quotes of: General-knowledge Keyword

God gave Adam and Eve that free will and choice. He gave them one warning: eat of any tree that is here, including the wonderful tree of life, but don’t eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil…I wish Adam and Eve had thought more abou...

Taken

Read a lot. But read as a writer, to see how other writers are doing it. And make your knowledge of literature in English as deep and broad as you can. In workshops, writers are often told to read what is being written now, but if that is all you rea...

Theodora Goss

All knowledge that is about human society, and not about the natural world, is historical knowledge, and therefore rests upon judgment and interpretation. This is not to say that facts or data are nonexistent, but that facts get their importance from...

Edward W. Said

Do you, good people, believe that Adam and Eve were created in the Garden of Eden and that they were forbidden to eat from the tree of knowledge? I do. The church has always been afraid of that tree. It still is afraid of knowledge. Some of you say r...

Clarence Darrow

And the two essential and indispensable things are first of all intelligence in the right most sense of that word and goodwill or the old fashion word charity/love, I mean these two things have to go hand in hand. Intelligence and knowledge without c...

Aldous Huxley

Frequently, I have been asked if an experiment I have planned is pure or applied science; to me it is more important to know if the experiment will yield new and probably enduring knowledge about nature. If it is likely to yield such knowledge, it is...

Life

At the last stages of the journey, there’s no journey at all.

Evolving Dharma: Meditation, Buddhism, and the Next Generation of Enlightenment

From generation to generation, lights are extinguished and darkness threatens until some one stoops to bear the torch.

Honor and Remembrance

This world is all vanity. It is a tempest hurling us from one sorrow to another.

The Roman General: A Novel

We men of this age are rotten with book-lore and with a yearning for the past.

The Last Generation A Story of the Future

Sincere and generous collaboration is the best way to fulfil the legitimate aspirations of each person and achieve great collective goals for the common good and the general interest.

King Felipe VI

Propaganda is a sprinter, but truth is a long-distance runner.

Responsibilities to future generations: Environmental ethics

So what are we given? We're also given, my generation, the disillusionment of our parents.

Jewel

No member of our generation who wasn't a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Without courage, our generation is doomed to another decade of political disenfranchisement and shit music.

Laurie Penny

I started at General Motors at 18 years old as a co-op student at the General Motors Institute, which is now Kettering.

Mary Barra

My generation must have despair. - Leonard Bernstein Ch 40/Dog Water Free, A Memoir

Michael Jay

With my luck, if I ever invested in General Motors, they'd bust it to Corporal!

Robert Orben

The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap.

Spiro T. Agnew

A Woman who is generous with her money is to be praised; not so, if she is generous with her person

Marcus Fabius Quintilianus

I'm showing the younger generation your career doesn't have to be over when you're 16-years-old.

Nastia Liukin