The recognition of virtue is not less valuable from the lips of the man who hates it, since truth forces him to acknowledge it; and though he may be unwilling to take it into his inmost soul, he at least decks himself out in its trappings.
Insightful Knowledge Quotes to Expand Your Mind - page 108
Moreover, a true Christian will not ascribe any prosperity to his own diligence, industry, or good fortune, but he will acknowledge that God is the author of it.
What would it take for you to acknowledge that race is an issue? Maybe you don't want to acknowledge that race is an issue.
Marc Morial
Knowing is NOT the most important thing. To be able to FIND OUT is more important than knowing.
Sugata Mitra
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All of the top achievers I know are life-long learners. Looking for new skills, insights, and ideas. If they're not learning, they're not growing and not moving toward excellence.
Let me remind you of the old maxim: people under suspicion are better moving than at rest, since at rest they may be sitting in the balance without knowing it, being weighed together with their sins.
To know God and to make Him known.
Loren Cunningham
Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action.
Thomas B. Macaulay
It was my science that drove me to the conclusion that the world is much more complicated than can be explained by science. It is only through the supernatural that I can understand the mystery of existence.
Allan Sandage
Knowing not grieving remembers a thousand savage and lonely streets.
William Faulkner
Missionary zeal does not grow out of intellectual beliefs, nor out of theological arguments, but out of love.
Roland Allen
In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.
Light is my inspiration, my paint and brush. It is as vital as the model herself. Profoundly significant, it caresses the essential superlative curves and lines. Light I acknowledge as the energy upon which all life on this planet depends.
Ruth Bernhard
As long as acquiring knowledge is the educational goal of schools, educational opportunities will be limited, as they are now, to affluent families.
William Glasser
The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation. I never yet talked to the man who wanted to save time who could tell me what he was going to do with the time he saved.
The man scarce lives who is not more credulous than he ought to be... The natural disposition is always to believe. It is acquired wisdom and experience only that teach incredulity, and they very seldom teach it enough.
Adam Smith
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There are more fools than wise men, and even in a wise man there is more folly than wisdom.
Nicolas Chamfort