Insightful Knowledge Quotes to Expand Your Mind - page 15

All possibility of understanding is rooted in the ability to say no.
All possibility of understanding is rooted in the ability to say no.
If you are bitter, you are like a dry leaf that you can just squash, and you can get blown away by the wind. There is much more wisdom in forgiveness.
 Vusi Mahlasela
The demand for liberty is a demand for power, either for possession of powers of action not already possessed or for retention and expansion of powers already possessed.
Only when we realize that there is no eternal, unchanging truth or absolute truth can we arouse in ourselves a sense of intellectual responsibility.
 Hu Shih
Study the past, if you would divine the future.
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
I like to think - knowing that it's an enabling fiction - of those moments as fragments from a world to come, a world where price isn't the only measure of value.
 Ben Lerner
Freedom is not the right to live as we please, but the right to find how we ought to live in order to fulfill our potential.
Whether the process proves to be Kyoto or something else, let's acknowledge the urgency of global warming.
 Brian Mulroney
Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
I think until Britain acknowledges just how much of a presence black people had here before the Sixties, then there are certain stories that are not going to be inclusive of what I have to offer.
 David Oyelowo
And when the world is created, it is created in such a way that those eternal objects of God's loving wisdom become actualities - interacting with one another, relating to God in the finite realm.
 Rowan Williams
Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
 G. M. Trevelyan
Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
 William Cowper
If you hope to be independent when there is money, you'll never reach it. On this world, humans can only safely have the knowledge, experience and ability
When all hope is lost, pig-headed refusal to acknowledge reality will always save the day.
 Andy Ihnatko
Wise men make more opportunities than they find.
Gardening is a labour full of tranquility and satisfaction; natural and instructive, and as such contributes to the most serious contemplation, experience, health and longevity.
 John Evelyn
Science, not religion, has taught me my most useful values, among them intellectual honesty. It is better to go without answers than to accept those that merely resolve puzzlement.
Science, not religion, has taught me my most useful values, among them intellectual honesty. It is better to go without answers than to accept those that merely resolve puzzlement.
 B. F. Skinner
An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox