It would be the height of absurdity to label ignorance tempered by humility "faith"!
(Institutio III.2.3)
Tags: knowledge faith humility ignorance absurdity calvin
The sum of things to be known is inexhaustible, and however long we read, we shall never come to the end of our story-book."
(Introductory lecture as professor of Latin at University College, London, 3 October 1892)
Tags: reading knowledge stories infinity
If you want to be truly successful invest in yourself to get the knowledge you need to find your unique factor. When you find it and focus on it and persevere your success will blossom.
Sidney MadwedTags: life success knowledge value
....a good book can teach you about the world and about yourself. You learn more than how to read better; you also learn more about life. You become wiser. Not just more knowledgeable - books that provide nothing but information can produce that result. But wiser, in the sense that you are more deeply aware of the great and enduring truths of human life.
Mortimer J. AdlerTags: books education knowledge
An educated man should know everything about something and something about everything
C.V. WedgwoodTelevision, radio, and all the sources of amusement and information that surround us in our daily lives are also artificial props. They can give us the impression that our minds are active, because we are required to react to stimuli from the outside. But the power of those external stimuli to keep us going is limited. They are like drugs. We grow used to them, and we continuously need more and more of them. Eventually, they have little or no effect. Then, if we lack resources within ourselves, we cease to grow intellectually, morally, and spiritually. And we we cease to grow, we begin to die.
Mortimer J. AdlerTags: books knowledge radio tv
The ability to retain a child's view of the world with at the same time a mature understanding of what it means to retain it, is extremely rare - and a person who has these qualities is likely to be able to contribute something really important to our thinking.
Mortimer J. AdlerTags: books knowledge children curiosity
The complexities of adult life get in the way of the truth. The great philosophers have always been able to clear away the complexities and see simple distinctions - simple once they are stated, vastly difficult before. If we are to follow them we too must be childishly simple in our questions - and maturely wise in our replies..
Mortimer J. AdlerTags: books knowledge children curiosity
Alas, how terrible is wisdom
when it brings no profit to the man that's wise!
This I knew well, but had forgotten it,
else I would not have come here.
Tags: knowledge
Knowledge without courage is sterile.
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