Insightful Knowledge Quotes to Expand Your Mind - page 69
When we become fixed in our perceptions we lose our ability to fly.
Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
I got very interested in people who had discovered something more significant than ... intellectual, abstract understanding.
Science begets knowledge; opinion, ignorance.
Hippocrates
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As there is no darkness in the moonlight. So is Mustafa (Muhammad), the well wisher, bright.
Abu Bakr
Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.
Dale Turner
We must abandon the prevalent belief in the superior wisdom of the ignorant.
Daniel J. Boorstin
A few books, well studied, and thoroughly digested, nourish the understanding more than hundreds but gargled in the mouth, as ordinary students use.
Frances Osborne
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.
Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.
True influence drives action, not just awareness.
Jay Baer
For centuries, the world divided human beings into two groups and then proceeded to exclude and oppress one group. It is only fair that the solution to the problem acknowledge that.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
It's all about understanding that God is behind every performance, good or bad, and that trusting Him will always leave you satisfied.
Lauryn Williams
Context is so important, not to mimic but to become part of the place. I wanted a building that acknowledges its surroundings.
David Adjaye
The immense accumulations of fixed capital which, to the great benefit of mankind, were built up during the half century before the war, could never have come about in a Society where wealth was divided equitably.
John Maynard Keynes
It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty.
In sum: banking theory and practice, as immobilizing and fixating forces, fail to acknowledge men and women as historical beings; problem-posing theory and practice take the people's historicity as their starting point.
Paulo Freire
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Cleverness is not wisdom.
Whatever we wish to achieve in the future, it must begin by knowing where we are in the present - not where we wish we were, or where we wish others to think we are, but where we are in fact.
