Insightful Knowledge Quotes to Expand Your Mind - page 158

With Jesus, however, the device of parabolic utterance is used not to explain things to people’s satisfaction but to call attention to the unsatisfactoriness of all their previous explanations and understandings.
With Jesus, however, the device of parabolic utterance is used not to explain things to people’s satisfaction but to call attention to the unsatisfactoriness of all their previous explanations and understandings.
 Robert Farrar Capon
The true way and the sure way to friendship is through humility-being open to each other, accepting each other just as we are, knowing each other.
I’m just interested in people on the edges. I feel an affinity for people who haven’t had the best breaks in society. What I want to do more than anything is acknowledge their existence.
 Mary Ellen Mark
The most that one of Jewish faith can do - and some have gladly done it - is to say that Jesus was the greatest in the long succession of Jewish prophets. None can acknowledge that Jesus was the Messiah without becoming a Christian.
 Kenneth Scott Latourette
Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
Never make a move until you find yourself making it, because it might be too soon. It's always better to wait. Whenever you're not sure, wait, and in time you'll find yourself doing it. To act before then would be a mistake.
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
The rewards for being sane may not be very many, but knowing what's funny is one of them.
 Kingsley Amis
Understanding transformed into secret means of action is splendid, wonderful, edifying and essentially dignifying.
 Samael Aun Weor
You can accept it that it may be true what somebody else says, but until you have experienced it, it is not dynamic to your own awareness.
You can accept it that it may be true what somebody else says, but until you have experienced it, it is not dynamic to your own awareness.
 Goswami Kriyananda
Democracy doesn't recognize east or west; democracy is simply people's will. Therefore, I do not acknowledge that there are various models of democracy; there is just democracy itself.
 Shirin Ebadi
Remember that there is a God who desires neither praise nor glory from men created in his image, but rather that they, guided by the understanding given them, should in their actions become like unto him.
Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.
In America, your zip code or your socioeconomic status should never determine the quality of your education.
 Arne Duncan
A well begun is half ended.
 A. C. Benson
The most successful filmmakers are not always the most knowledgeable ones. They are the ones who put action to what they learnt. They do, not talk about doing.
 Elliot Grove
Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense.
 Julian Casablancas
Wisdom - meaning judgment acting on experience, common sense, available knowledge, and a decent appreciation of probability.
 Barbara Tuchman
The awareness of the ambiguity of one\'s highest achievements, as well as one\'s deepest failures is a definite symptom of maturity.
The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements, as well as one's deepest failures is a definite symptom of maturity.
 Paul Tillich
An egalitarian educational system is necessarily opposed to meritocracy and reward for achievement. It is inevitably opposed to procedures that might reveal differing levels of achievement.
 Robert Bork