Insightful Knowledge Quotes to Expand Your Mind - page 119

The intellectual takes as a starting point his self and relates the world to his own sensibilities; the scientist accepts an existing field of knowledge and seeks to map out the unexplored terrain.
The intellectual takes as a starting point his self and relates the world to his own sensibilities; the scientist accepts an existing field of knowledge and seeks to map out the unexplored terrain.
 Daniel Bell
That's what reading was for my mother, and became for me - a way to escape, a private time machine, a place that began with moral instruction but soon morphed into empathy and imagination.
 Ramona Koval
If we didn't have understanding of our journey, we wouldn't be able to go on. We'd be stuck, like, 'Why me?'
 Mary J. Blige
Reveal not every secret you have to a friend, for how can you tell but that friend may hereafter become and enemy. And bring not all mischief you are able to upon an enemy, for he may one day become your friend.
Knowing when to keep your mouth shut is invariably more important than opening it at the right time.
 Malcolm Forbes
You know, the great thing about acting or, indeed, filmmaking in general, is that we're all given a reason to do research. You kind of have to, really, if you want to know what you're doing, but it opens up this whole new understanding.
 Danny Huston
All science is full of statements where you put your best face on your ignorance, where you say: ... we know awfully little about this, but more or less irrespective of the stuff we don't know about, we can make certain useful deductions.
 Hermann Bondi
Chaos is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence.
Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.
 Henry Steele Commager
If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.
If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.
Among the most disheartening and dangerous of . . . advisors, you will often find those closest to you, your dearest friends, members of your own family, perhaps, loving, anxious, and knowing nothing whatever . . .
 Minnie Maddern Fiske
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is God's gift, that's why we call it the present.
We are trying to enable anyone in the world to be their own educational DJ, creating educational materials, sharing them with the world, constantly innovating on them.
 Richard Baraniuk
O Allah! If I cannot always understand Your wisdom in what You decree, please let me at least have the insight to accept it and be content with it.
 Salman al-Ouda
I think we've tied acquiring knowledge too much to school
 Arno Allan Penzias
Sjogren's is something you live with your whole life. The good news for me is now I know what's happening after spending years not knowing... I feel like I can get better and move on.
 Venus Williams
All's well that ends well.
 John Heywood
All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope.
 Alexandre Dumas
The law of attraction is feeble without the law of action.
The law of attraction is feeble without the law of action.
 Catherine DeVrye
The more you know yourself, the more you forgive yourself.