Quotes of: Ralph-waldo-emerson Keyword

Knowledge is a beautiful thing, but there are a few things I wish I didn't know.

Susan Orlean

With Skype video calling, teachers can provide their students with first-hand knowledge from experts around the world and with other classes who are studying the same subject halfway across the world.

Tony Bates

The world does not look to us in the Arab world out of a healthy desire for knowledge.

Tahar Ben Jelloun

The vast knowledge we have to prevent cancer, heart disease, and other chronic illnesses is staggering.

Tom Rath

A knowledge of the forces that rule society, of the causes that have produced its upheavals, and of society's resources for promoting healthy progress has become of vital concern to our civilization.

Wilhelm Dilthey

Harvard is first and foremost a university and not a consulting operation, and our job here is to teach and to research and to create knowledge on Asia in conjunction and in cooperation with scholars as well as with political, intellectual, and cultu...

William Kirby

There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride, they have yielded to the perennial temptation.

Walter Lippmann

To go from mortal to Buddha, you have to put an end to karma, nurture your awareness, and accept what life brings.

Bodhidharma

If we give our children sound self-love, they will be able to deal with whatever life puts before them.

bell hooks

The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.

Confucius

Raising children is an uncertain thing; success is reached only after a life of battle and worry.

Democritus

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.

Epicurus

Life is a succession of crises and moments when we have to rediscover who we are and what we really want.

Jean Vanier

The Russian yearning for the meaning of life is the major theme of our literature, and this is the real point of our intelligentsia's existence.

Nikolai Berdyaev

Psychology is the science of the act of experiencing, and deals with the whole system of such acts as they make up mental life.

Samuel Alexander

A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.

Sigmund Freud

Slavery, if it can be legalized at all, can be legalized only by positive legislation. Natural law gives it no aid. Custom imparts to it no legal sanction.

Lysander Spooner

I don't think there is anything wrong with learning from people who are better than you.

Asa Larsson

Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat.

Audre Lorde

The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.

Audre Lorde

A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.

Alexander Pope