Insightful Knowledge Quotes to Expand Your Mind - page 61
Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.
Abigail Van Buren
The ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained.
David Bohm
We read critics for the perceptions, for what they tell us that we didn't fully grasp when we saw the work. The judgments we can usually make for ourselves.
Pauline Kael
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...for Paul faith is always faith in a person. Faith is not the intellectual acceptance of a body of doctrine; faith is faith in a person.
William Barclay
I work for posterity, these things requiring ages for their accomplishment.
My God, the religious right will not acknowledge what a merciful person Jesus was.
Let the people have property and they will have power - a power that will forever be exerted to prevent the restriction of the press, the abolition of trial by jury, or the abridgment of any other privilege.
Noah Webster
we should contract our ideas of education, and expect no more from it than it is able to perform.
Anna Letitia Barbauld
There's something very full in knowing that your partner accepts you as is.
Esther Perel
Science is public, not private, knowledge.
Robert K. Merton
Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible.
Robert M. Hutchins
Your mothers get mighty shocked at you girls nowadays, but in her day, her mother was just on the verge of sending her to reform school.
In every science certain things must be accepted as first principles if the subject matter is to be understood; and these first postulates rest upon faith.
Nicholas of Cusa
The end of all knowledge should be in virtuous action.
Philip Sidney
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There was a young man in Rome that was very like Augustus Caesar; Augustus took knowledge of it and sent for the man, and asked him "Was your mother never at Rome?" He answered "No Sir; but my father was.
