Insightful Knowledge Quotes to Expand Your Mind - page 107

We shouldn\'t teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is a trivial achievement. Being inclined to go on reading is a great achievement.
We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is a trivial achievement. Being inclined to go on reading is a great achievement.
 B. F. Skinner
Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization.
 Robert Foster Bennett
The artist is today and has been for many years, despite his absence of merit, simply a spoiled child. So many honors, so much money bestowed on men without souls and without education.
 Charles Baudelaire
I think they went with the idea that people know the story pretty much- knowing that he's going to take her when she's going to go with him. Also, the movie is really focused on Achilles and Hector and their battles.
 Diane Kruger
Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument.
 George Sand
I, for my part, acknowledge another precept which says that man must deal the final blow to those whose downfall is destined by God.
Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
Wisdom and goodness to the vile seem vile; Filths savour but themselves.
The imagination of the genius vastly surpasses his intellect; the intellect of the academic vastly surpasses his imagination
 Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Artist - musicians, painters, writers, poets, always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life.
Artist - musicians, painters, writers, poets, always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life.
 Billy Joel
O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive!
 Walter Scott
To see the light we must first acknowledge that we are in the dark.
 Dominic Rouse
I am the only real truth I know.
 Jean Rhys
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive knowledge.
To lay hold of the mean without taking into account the occasion is like grasping one thing only.
 Mencius
Talent is God-given; be humble. Fame is man-given; be thankful. Conceit is self-given; be careful.
 Harvey Mackay
It strikes everyone in beginning to form an acquaintance with the treasures of Indian literature that a land so rich in intellectual products and those of the profoundest order of thought.
 Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Responsibilites and expectations are the basis of guilt and shame and judgement, and they provide the essential framework that promotes performance as the basis for identity and value.
 William P. Young
My primary motivation for writing is to communicate my perceptions and insights into the human condition, in a way that may provide understanding, comfort, and company to others.
My primary motivation for writing is to communicate my perceptions and insights into the human condition, in a way that may provide understanding, comfort, and company to others.
 Vanna Bonta
How often it is that a small action becomes great by its intention. And how often it is that a great action becomes small by its intention.
 Abdullah ibn Mubarak