Insightful Knowledge Quotes to Expand Your Mind - page 25
Human action can be modified to some extent, but human nature can not be changed
Scientific knowledge is a body of statements of varying degrees of certainty -- some most unsure, some nearly sure, none absolutely certain.
Richard P. Feynman
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for the present we may groupe the sciences into Professorships as follows, subject however to be changed according to the qualifications of the persons we may be able to engage.
Death does not trouble me. I have no fear of supernatural punishments, of course, nor could I enjoy an eternal life in which there would be nothing left for me to do, the task of living having been accomplished.
B. F. Skinner
We need to move beyond the idea that an education is something provided for us, and toward the idea that an education is something that we create for ourselves.
Stephen Downes
Acting is just a process of relaxation, actually. Knowing the text so well and trusting that the instinct and the subconscious mind, whatever you want to call it, is going to take over.
Without devotion, action and knowledge are cold and dry and many even become shackles.
Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.
Publilius Syrus
O, we all acknowledge our faults, now; 'tis the mode of the day: but the acknowledgment passes for current payment; and therefore we never amend them.
Fanny Burney
Once there is a distance between you and your thought process, a new freedom is born. With this freedom, a new perception arises.
Jaggi Vasudev
We have to acknowledge peace is in danger and mankind still has not realised the priority to be given to world dialogue versus armed contradiction and bloodshed.
Nursultan Nazarbayev
War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end; it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes.
There is no greater calling than to serve your fellow men. There is no greater contribution than to help the weak. There is no greater satisfaction than to have done it well.
Walter Reuther
The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.
Intelligence alone does not get us where we need to go or even necessarily where we want to go. For that, the human creature must exercise harder-won capacities of wisdom, and wise action.
Krista Tippett
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Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.
When understanding of the universe has become widespread, when the majority of men know that the stars are not sources of light but worlds, perhaps inhabited worlds like ours, then the Christian doctrine will be convicted of absurdity.
