975 quotes found
“Human knowledge consists not only of libraries of parchment and ink - it is also comprised of the volumes of knowledge that are written on the human heart, chiselled on the human soul, and engraved...”
“The soil needs the seed and the seed needs the soil. The one only has meaning with the other. It is the same thing with human beings. When male knowledge joins with female transformation, then the ...”
“Chaos needs no allies, for it dwells like a poison in every one of us.”
“Knowledge is not made for understanding it is made for cutting.”
“for whenever men are right they are not young”
“If knowledge isn't self-knowledge it isn't doing much, mate. Is the universe expanding? Is it contracting? Is it standing on one leg and singing 'When Father Painted the Parlour'? Leave me out. I c...”
“A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.”
“Knowledge is power, and the right knowledge lets man perform miraculous, almost godlike tasks.”
“There is no magic. There is only knowledge, more or less hidden.”
“Then we shan’t regard anyone as a lover of knowledge or wisdom who is fussy about what he studies…”
“Enough talk, now read!”
“They knew many things but had no idea why. And strangely this made them more, rather than less, certain that they were right.”
“To be agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you already know.”
“Oho, now I know what you are. You are an advocate of Useful Knowledge.... Well, allow me to introduce myself to you as an advocate of Ornamental Knowledge. You like the mind to be a neat machine, e...”
“One had to live a long time to know a man's true nature.”
“...I like stories very much,” the priest said. “They help me understand myself better.”
“Nothing is born of nothing, least of all knowledge, modernity, or enlightened thought; progress is made in tiny surges, in successive laps, like an endless relay race. But there are links without w...”
“I’ve learned one thing-people who know the least anyways seem to know it the loudest.”
“A man of logic is a man of sin.”
“But it was Aldo’s pen that became his most forceful tool. He started a newsletter for rangers called the Carson Pine Cone. Aldo used it to “scatter seeds of knowledge, encouragement, and enthusiasm...”
