Insightful Knowledge Quotes to Expand Your Mind - page 56

If we are trying to account for mobilization, we have to ask, under what conditions do outraged forms of knowing lead to social mobilizations and movements? So awareness alone does not suffice, and neither does outrage.
If we are trying to account for mobilization, we have to ask, under what conditions do outraged forms of knowing lead to social mobilizations and movements? So awareness alone does not suffice, and neither does outrage.
 Judith Butler
There is not first understanding and then action. When you understand, that very understanding is action.
Vision, Uncertainty, and Knowledge of Materials are inevitabilities that all artists must acknowledge and learn from: vision is always ahead of execution, knowledge of materials is your contact with reality, and uncertainty is a virtue.
 David Bayles
The Goal of Science is understanding lawful relations among natural phenomena. Religion is a way of life within a larger framework of meaning.
 Ian Barbour
They teach in academies far too many things, and far too much that is useless.
The seat of perfect contentment is in the head; for every individual is thoroughly satisfied with his own proportion of brains.
One cannot expect positive results from an educational or political action program which fails to respect the particular view of the world held by the people. Such a program constitutes cultural invasion, good intentions notwithstanding.
 Paulo Freire
True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.
 Akhenaten
I got very interested in attention and awareness and how to achieve certain states through understanding this.
 Pauline Oliveros
Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.
Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.
I believe that today's players who are Christians feel that it's important and their responsibility to acknowledge their faith.
 Lynn Swann
Academic work is one of those fields which contain a pearl so precious that it is worth while to sell all our possessions, keeping nothing for ourselves, in order to be able to acquire it.
 Simone Weil
Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
 Will Durant
The abstract, unreal freedom of the liberal intellect was really nothing more than childish disobedience, amplified into anarchy.
 Roger Scruton
Meditation is not a technique to master; it is the highest form of prayer, a naked act of love and effortless surrender into the silent abyss beyond all knowing
 Adyashanti
If Turkey is prepared to acknowledge the Armenian Genocide, then its leaders can proceed immediately to direct dialogue with its counterparts in Armenia to define a common vision for the future.
 Mark Foley
Even the hard times are part of your life story. If you acknowledge them and move past them, they eventually add up to the experience that makes you wise.
 Miley Cyrus
There is a fine balance between honoring the past and losing yourself in it. For example, you can acknowledge and learn from mistakes you made, and then move on and refocus on the now. It is called forgiving yourself.
For anyone to open their heart, they need the right atmosphere, and something to prompt them. For my mother it was her trip abroad: she was in a very relaxed, understanding environment. I was very sympathetic towards her.
For anyone to open their heart, they need the right atmosphere, and something to prompt them. For my mother it was her trip abroad: she was in a very relaxed, understanding environment. I was very sympathetic towards her.
 Jung Chang
The stage is a supplement to the pulpit, where virtue, according to Plato's sublime idea, moves our love and affection when made visible to the eye.