Insightful Knowledge Quotes to Expand Your Mind - page 160

Know or listen to those who know.
Know or listen to those who know.
 Baltasar Gracian
It's just that different emotions and perceptions demand different frequencies and intensities.
 Christian Wiman
Intervention for the prevention and control of osteoporosis should comprise a combination of legislative action, educational measures, health service activities, media coverage, and individual counselling to initiate changes in behaviour.
 Gro Harlem Brundtland
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
Education, in its highest sense, is conscious training of mind or body to act unconsciously. It is conscious formation of mental habits, not mere acquisition of information.
 William George Jordan
I am convinced that we Christ-followers need an understanding of playfulness if we are going to take sanctification by the Holy Spirit seriously.
 Calvin Seerveld
What kept me sane was knowing that things would change, and it was a question of keeping myself together until they did.
 Nina Simone
Feminism, in all fields, has yet to produce a single scholar of the intellectual rank of scores of these learned men [e.g., Bruno Snell, Albin Lesky, Denys Page] in the German and British academic tradition.
Little by little, one travels far
Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.
It's been by turns frustrating and fascinating and wonderful beyond imagination. If what I suspect is true, it's one of the most important milestones in human history to acknowledge that we are not alone in the universe.
 Steven M. Greer
The highest result of education is tolerance. Long ago men fought and died for their faith; but it took ages to teach them the other kind of courage, - the courage to recognize the faiths of their brethren and their rights of conscience.
All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. All intellectual and artistic ambitions are permissible, up to and even beyond the limit of prudent sanity. They can hurt no one.
What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.
I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.
I love wisdom. And you can never be great at anything unless you love it. Not be in love with it, but love the thing, admire the thing. And it seems that if you love the thing, and you don't just want to possess it, it will find you.
Most areas of intellectual life have discovered the virtues of speculation, and have embraced them wildly. In academia, speculation is usually dignified as theory.
 Michael Crichton
Writing, in any sense that matters, cannot be taught. It can only be learned by each separate one of us in his own way, by the use of his own powers of imagination and perception, the ability to learn the lessons he has set for himself.
 Katherine Anne Porter
Memoir implies the need to reveal something about yourself - to recount your life for educational purposes.
Memoir implies the need to reveal something about yourself - to recount your life for educational purposes.
 Aleksandar Hemon
You have to just accept your body. You may not love it all the way, but you just have to be comfortable with it, comfortable with knowing that that's your body.
 Rihanna