Knowledge Quotes - Page 10

To promote peace, promote understanding. To promote understanding, promote love.

If she could no longer be called beautiful, she possessed something better-a knowledge of beauty; it’s inflated value, it’s inevitable loss.

Complete focused applied awareness of the Soul (shuddha upayog) is considered absolute Knowledge (keval gnan).

You will die, and I, and all we can create—why not a city? But if there is one thing that deserves to be immortal, it is knowledge.

Enlightenment is the Goal - Love is the Game - Taking steps are the rules! - Allan Rufus

Words, they say, are the food of minds. But, like other foods, they can do little by themselves.

In modern times couples are more concerned about loyalty than love.

Most often women want happiness and men want wilderness.

Happiness absolutely depends on how you think.

Movement is knowledge. Art is perception

It is an insult to live in the fear of darkness.

Adversities are the best teacher and challenges are the best motivator.

There's no short-cut in life but with right knowledge, you can fast-track things to come to pass.

Love is the only way to go toward happiness.

Oho, now I know what you are. You are an advocate of Useful Knowledge.... Well, allow me to introduce myself to you as an advocate of Ornamental Knowledge. You like the mind to be a neat machine, equipped to work efficiently, if narrowly, and with no extra bits or useless parts. I like the mind to be a dustbin of scraps of brilliant fabric, odd gems, worthless but fascinating curiosities, tinsel, quaint bits of carving, and a reasonable amount of healthy dirt. Shake the machine and it goes out of order; shake the dustbin and it adjusts itself beautifully to its new position.

There are two aspects to this world; even though it is fickle, it is within principle. Through the medium of the five senses and intellectual knowledge, it appears fickle and through ‘Gnan’ (Real Knowledge) it appears to be within principle.

Be selective in your battles...

They set down all their knowledge on bits of leather or waxed wood or tablets of stone and think that is wisdom. What good does it do a piece of stone to have knowledge?...know it is the understanding graven in the heart that makes men wise.

Knowledge isn’t life changing. The application of knowledge is.

All humans are sentient and sapient beings so they have the ability to perceive, think, and act using their knowledge, experience, insight, and conscience.

I like to feel dumb. That’s how I know there’s more in the world than me.

Parents are always more knowledgeable than their children, and children are always smarter than their parents.

What we most love is not what we know, but what knows us and draws us. . . . (78)

Let's go with what you have to get what you want.

Success is a transformation not a final destination.

…and all the other tools that mistook information for knowledge

Let’s stop glorifying the devil, giving him power that he does not deserve or have.

God did not mean us to be ignorant. He left us this marvelous universe to decipher and understand.

Fight against illiteracy.

Clean out your mind closet.Clean out resentment and hatred.Clean out regrets and secrets.Now fill it with love, joy and respect.

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.

Worldly ambition inhibits true learning. Ask me. I know. A young man in a hurry is nearly uneducable: He knows what he wants and where he’s headed; when it comes to looking back or entertaining heretical thoughts, he has neither the time nor the inclination. All that counts is that he is going somewhere. Only as ambition wanes does education become a possibility.

Those who do not continuously seek knowledge are content to settle for mediocrity.

We do not learn for the benefit of anyone, we learn to unlearn ignorance.

...Turn our thoughts, in the next place, to the characters of learned men. The priesthood have, in all ancient nations, nearly monopolized learning. Read over again all the accounts we have of Hindoos, Chaldeans, Persians, Greeks, Romans, Celts, Teutons, we shall find that priests had all the knowledge, and really governed all mankind. Examine Mahometanism, trace Christianity from its first promulgation; knowledge has been almost exclusively confined to the clergy. And, even since the Reformation, when or where has existed a Protestant or dissenting sect who would tolerate a free inquiry? The blackest billingsgate, the most ungentlemanly insolence, the most yahooish brutality is patiently endured, countenanced, propagated, and applauded. But touch a solemn truth in collision with a dogma of a sect, though capable of the clearest proof, and you will soon find you have disturbed a nest, and the hornets will swarm about your legs and hands, and fly into your face and

In the world of personal development and spiritual growth, a seeker embarks on a path of self-discovery and self-improvement. A seeker desires to discover knowledge and use an enhanced level of personal awareness to alter their behavior, opinions, beliefs, and point of view in order to experience reality in a different and more wholesome manner than the prior path that lead to self-rejection.

Respect cannot be inherited, respect is the result of right actions.

A terrible plague has either killed mankind or transformed them into demons ... and all they want is Compton's soul.The best place to conceal esoteric information is right in front of us.

Education means nourishing the mind and make it develop in order to see beyond the limitations of current social perception.

I can't be afraid of someone whose human side I see and know.

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

Any work not executed honestly, fails to fulfill its objective.

Find a place to think and a person to love and be happy.

I do not agree with you," insisted Georyn. "Must a man then live always as his fellows live, and never reach beyond? There is more to knowledge than you dream of, Terwyn, and if it lies in some enchanted realm- well, I think that there is a door to that realm. And I think that the Enchantress knows where the door is and can open it." "Perhaps; but will she leave it open? Think, Georyn: even if she should let you look for such a door, the time will surely come when it will be sealed again; and when that happens you will not be on her side of it, but on ours. How will you feel then? Let us accept her help against the Dragon, but no more- for we are men, not wizards" "I am not sure," said Georyn, "that there is such a difference between the two.

The Seven Social Sins are: Wealth without work. Pleasure without conscience. Knowledge without character. Commerce without morality. Science without humanity. Worship without sacrifice. Politics without principle.From a sermon given by Frederick Lewis Donaldson in Westminster Abbey, London, on March 20, 1925.

You can take the Indian out of the family, but you cannot take the family out of the Indian.

The precept "Know yourself " was not solely intended to obviate the pride of mankind but likewise that we might understand our own worth.

Much of the world in search of knowledge and fulfillment ignores God!

Fools may have the greatest repository of knowledge but will never attain Wisdom.

Be a worthy worker and work will come.

Love is a donation. Donation is an appreciation.

Let my body dwell in poverty, and my hands be as the hands of the toiler; but let my soul be as a temple of remembrance where the treasures of knowledge enter and the inner sanctuary is hope.

Wisdom is creating connections between the current perceptual realities with future imaginative possibilities.

Everything worth knowing about the 1980s I learned from obsessively reading Bloom County collections when I was nine and Derek Jarman's diaries when I was twenty.

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.

You and I are to be a true member of the provoked generation.

Self-knowledge is the beginning of self-improvement.

It is true, there could be a metaphysical world; the absolute possibility of it is hardly to be disputed. We behold all things through the human head and cannot cut off this head; while the question nonetheless remains what of the world would still be there if one had cut it off.

The knowledge of Christ which is produced by man's own cleverness and wisdom is not a rock that can stand firm.

Trust everyone and love everyone, you will never lose.