Insightful Knowledge Quotes to Expand Your Mind - page 173

Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.
Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.
 Henry van Dyke Jr.
No man's nature is able to know what is best for the social state of man; or, knowing, always able to do what is best.
Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.
 Baltasar Gracián
In recent times, modern science has developed to give mankind, for the first time in the history of the human race, a way of securing a more abundant life which does not simply consist in taking away from someone else.
 Karl Taylor Compton
Looks are deceiving," Risa says. "After all, when I first saw you I thought you looked reasonably intelligent.
 Neal Shusterman
Absolute consciousness is manifest here in every circumstance of daily life because it is everywhere full and perfect. Consciousness is said to be the cause of all things because it is everywhere emergent as each manifest entity.
 Abhinavagupta
it is inconceivable that poverty eradication can make much headway in the absence of major advances in literacy.
 Koichiro Matsuura
My definition of an educated man is the fellow who knows the right thing to do at the time it has to be done. You can be sincere and still be stupid.
 Charles Kettering
Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
If you ask me what I want to achieve, it's to create an awareness, which is already the beginning of teaching.
Let my skin and sinews and bones dry up, together with all the flesh and blood of my body! I welcome it! But I will not move from this spot until I have attained the supreme and final wisdom.
We have to acknowledge sometimes that this moment is enough. This place is enough. I am enough.
 Sue Monk Kidd
poetry is the sung voice of accurate perception.
 Patricia Hampl
Death is a companion for all of us, whether we acknowledge it or not, whether we're aware of it or not, and it's not necessarily a terrible thing.
 Alan Ball
The IMPP work was already very important. The recent AOL action might reinforce public perception that a standard is needed, but I think the public already realized this.
 Keith L. Moore
To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.
The criterion of truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge it.
Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.
Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.
 Robert M. Pirsig
If it were customary to send daughters to school like sons, and if they were then taught the natural sciences, they would learn as thoroughly and understand the subtleties of all the arts and sciences as well as sons.
 Christine de Pizan