Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.
Insightful Knowledge Quotes to Expand Your Mind - page 104
William Armstrong is a great teacher. He speaks truthfullyabout the discipline required for learning, and about the pleasures oforder and system in acquiring knowledge. Any reader, of any age, will enjoythis book.
Jill Ker Conway
To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
Marilyn vos Savant
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Every creative act – in science, art, or religion – involves a regression to a more primitive level, a new innocence of perception liberated from the cataract of accepted beliefs.
Arthur Koestler
Absorption in worldly affairs breeds darkness in the heart, and absorption in the affairs of the next world enkindles light in the heart
Uthman ibn Affan
Science is the one human activity that is truly progressive. The body of positive knowledge is transmitted from generation to generation.
Edwin Powell Hubble
As an instrument for practical action, law is responsive to the wisdom of its time, which may be wrong, but it carries forward, sometimes in opposition to this wisdom or passion, a memory of received values.
Edward H. Levi
Nothing grieves a child more than to study the wrong lesson and learn something he wasn't suppose to.
Charles E. McKenzie
Being in humaneness is good. If we select other goodness and thus are far apart from humaneness, how can we be the wise?
Women move through the world never knowing their power.
Adriana Trigiani
Theories are more common than achievements in the history of education.
Richard Livingstone
Prior to the PATRIOT Act, the ability of government agencies to share information with each other was limited, which kept investigators from fully understanding what terrorists might be planning and to prevent their attacks.
Chris Chocola
Old age is an ordeal, of flesh and mind. Of winding down, of slowing down, of dying cells. It's accepting the loss of physical attractiveness and replacing it with the power and wisdom that can only come with old age.
Colleen McCullough
The due administration of justice is the firmest pillar of good government, I have considered the first arrangement of the judicial department as essential to the happiness of the country, and to the stability of its political system.
Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.
Your beliefs and perceptions determine the boudaries of your world.
Al Duncan
Immigrants used to come to America seeking freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and freedom from government. Now they come looking for free health care, free education, and a free lunch.
Harry Browne
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A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.
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