Experience is more important than knowledge.
Santosh KalwarStichwörter: experience knowledge
I know certain truths about life.
Dana ReinhardtStichwörter: life inspirational truth knowledge
Science replaces private prejudice with public, verifiable evidence.
Richard DawkinsStichwörter: science education knowledge belief prejudice ignorance evidence proof richard-dawkins enlighten
Knowledge drifts in and out of my mind", said Lestat with a little look of honest distress and a shake of his head. "I devour it and then I lose it and sometimes I can't reach for any knowledge that I ought to possess. I feel desolate, but then knowledge returns or I seek it out in a knew source."
(...)
"But you love books, then", Aunt Queen was saying. I had to listen.
"Oh, yes," Lestat said. "Sometimes they're the only thing that keeps me alive."
"What a thing to say at your age", she laughed.
"No, but one can feel desperate at any age, don't you think? The young are eternally desperate," he said frankly. "And books, they offer one hope - that a whole universe might open up from between the covers, and falling into that universe, one is saved.
Stichwörter: reading books knowledge
If then a practical end must be assigned to a University course, I say it is that of training good members of society... It is the education which gives a man a clear, conscious view of their own opinions and judgements, a truth in developing them, an eloquence in expressing them, and a force in urging them. It teaches him to see things as they are, to go right to the point, to disentangle a skein of thought to detect what is sophistical and to discard what is irrelevant.
John Henry NewmanStichwörter: education knowledge university
It is precisely by binding things together that traditional visions perpetuate themselves and the prejudgments contained within them; and it is by insisting on prising things apart that we have liberated ourselves from them
Ernest GellnerStichwörter: knowledge change thought ideas analysis
A nation which expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, expects that which never was and never will be.
Thomas JeffersonStichwörter: liberty knowledge state
I am more afraid that this people have so much confidence in their leaders that they will not inquire for themselves of God whether they are led by him. I am fearful they settle down in a state of blind self security. Let every man and woman know, by the whispering of the Spirit of God to themselves, whether their leaders are walking in the path the Lord dictates, or not.
Brigham YoungStichwörter: knowledge religion faith spirituality
The master of the garden is the one who waters it, trims the branches, plants the seeds, and pulls the weeds. If you merely stroll through the garden, you are but an acolyte.
Vera NazarianStichwörter: wisdom experience knowledge learning world gardening responsibility stewardship effort student learn garden caring master guardian responsible planting acolyte gardener steward
Interviewer: Didn't Sagan want to believe?
Druyan: he didn't want to believe. he wanted to know.
Stichwörter: science truth knowledge belief atheism astronomy agnosticism carl-sagan sagan
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