Insightful Knowledge Quotes to Expand Your Mind - page 70

I had to satisfy the action fans, the romantic fans, the intellectual fans. It was a terrific burden.
I had to satisfy the action fans, the romantic fans, the intellectual fans. It was a terrific burden.
 Sidney Poitier
Knowledge must come through action. You can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.
 Sophocles
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Education is not received. It is achieved.
Denying our weaknesses is neither power, nor protection. We cannot overcome those disabling parts of our own nature which in fact steal our power away, if we do not acknowledge they exist.
 Sonia Choquette
Education is not acquisition of burdensome information regarding objects and men. It is the awareness of the immortal spirit within,, which is the spring of joy, peace and courage.
 Sai Baba
The fact is, every thinker, every philosopher, the moment he is forced to abandon his one-sided intellectual occupation by practical necessity, immediately returns to the general point of view of mankind.
 Ernst Mach
No important change in ethics was ever accomplished without an internal chage in our intellectual emphasis, loyalties, affections, and convictions.
 Aldo Leopold
Some folks are wise and some are otherwise.
 Tobias Smollett
Everybody should be interested in access to primary and secondary education for everybody.
Everybody should be interested in access to primary and secondary education for everybody.
 Paul Farmer
One must also acknowledge that there are moments in an organisation's development when fresh blood and new vision are required, which may imply that an outsider may be better suited to the leadership role.
Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.
True liberty acknowledges and defends the equal rights of all men, and all nations.
 Gerrit Smith
In every encounter we either give life or we drain it; there is no neutral exchange.
 Brennan Manning
There is nothing so absurd as knowledge spun too fine.
What I find is most people have a civics book understanding for how Congress works and how a bill moves.
 Sam Brownback
When you can look a thing dead in the eye, acknowledge that it exists, call it exactly what it is, and decide what role it will take in your life then, my Beloved, you have taken the first step toward your freedom.
People must have righteous principals in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.
The most important contribution management needs to make in the 21st century is ... to increase the productivity of knowledge work and the knowledge worker
The most important contribution management needs to make in the 21st century is ... to increase the productivity of knowledge work and the knowledge worker
Life a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of the future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter.
 Charles Lindbergh