Insightful Knowledge Quotes to Expand Your Mind - page 128

If we\'re able to identify our own ignorance, we can identify someone else\'s expertise. We learn how to listen to each other. And that is the foundation of human understanding.
If we're able to identify our own ignorance, we can identify someone else's expertise. We learn how to listen to each other. And that is the foundation of human understanding.
 Ted Koppel
What any person in the world can learn, almost all persons can learn if provided with appropriate prior and current conditions of learning.
 Benjamin Bloom
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.
What is meaningful cannot in fact be isolated…. We achieve understanding within a circular movement from particular facts to the whole that includes them and back again from the whole thus reached to the particular significant facts.
 Karl Jaspers
Part of the task of the leader is to make others participate in his leadership. The best leader knows how to make his followers actually feel power themselves, not merely acknowledge his power.
 Mary Parker Follett
You never observe a great intellectual movement in Europe in which the Jews do NOT greatly participate. The first Jesuits were Jews.
The origin of all science is the desire to know causes, and the origin of all false science is the desire to accept false causes rather than none; or, which is the same thing, in the unwillingness to acknowledge our own ignorance.
Self knowledge is best learned not by contemplation, but by action.
Achieving the right to basic education for all is thus one of the biggest moral challenges of our times.
Achieving the right to basic education for all is thus one of the biggest moral challenges of our times.
 Koichiro Matsuura
A man can be saved and not believe in the Doctrines of Grace...but he must be a very proud man. Unknown-but if you know who said it, please tell me You're born. You suffer. You die. Fortunately, there's a loophole.
 Will Graham
There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence.
 Philip James Bailey
Once you’ve accepted your flaws, no one can use them against you.
Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.
 Karl Kraus
It is not beyond our power to create a world in which all children have access to a good education.
Reliable scientific knowledge is value free and has no moral or ethical value. Science tells us how the world is. ... Dangers and ethical issue arise only when science is applied as technology.
 Lewis Wolpert
Fatherhood is a relationship of love and understanding It is power and action. It is counsel and instruction.
 A. Theodore Tuttle
Without fear I can acknowledge that the authentic Christian tension is not between life and death, but between life and life.
 Brennan Manning
The biggest atrocity of all is to indoctrinate our children into a system that does not value their creative expression, nor encourage their unique abilities.
The biggest atrocity of all is to indoctrinate our children into a system that does not value their creative expression, nor encourage their unique abilities.
 Benjamin Greene
The secret to achieving inner peace lies in understanding our inner core values – those things in our lives that are most important to us – and then seeing that they are reflected in the daily events of our lives.
 Hyrum W. Smith