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 which nothing would be passed on, and for that reason, they deserve the gratitude of all who benefited from them.
Amin MaaloufTags: progress knowledge modernity
What is more important to a library than anything else -- than everything else -- is the fact that it exists."
[The Premise Of Meaning, American Scholar; Washington, DC, June 5, 1972]
Tags: libraries reading books knowledge
Wisdom is nothing more than confirmed imagination: just because one did not study for his exam does not mean that he should leave it blank.
Criss JamiTags: wisdom imagination intelligence education knowledge learning school college risk experimentation development study test exam confirmed confirmation blank fill-in-the-blank
I’ve learned one thing-people who know the least anyways seem to know it the loudest.
Al CappTags: knowledge
In God's eyes, a man who teaches one truth and nothing else is more righteous than a man who teaches a million truths and one lie.
Criss JamiTags: wisdom truth intelligence honesty certainty knowledge lies perspective god faith uncertainty teaching apologetics gospel
Learning isn't acquiring knowledge so much as it is trimming information that has already been acquired.
Criss JamiTags: wisdom knowledge learning humility understanding simplicity information pride development letting-go
The common man prays, 'I want a cookie right now!' And God responds, 'If you'd listen to what I say, tomorrow it will bring you 100 cookies.
Criss JamiTags: humor knowledge god time work patience humility funny understanding prayer metaphor waiting obedience hard-work cute timing faithfulness omniscience misunderstanding impatience literal praying cookie figurative prudence bigger-picture foreknowledge
Flame is not the only fire.” Her tone turned almost stern. “You have brought your folk another spark far greater than any flame. You have opened their eyes to the world, Aljan, shown them lands and peoples formerly beyond their ken. You have whistled them out of their cramped, closed, inward-facing ring and led them into my Dance, the Great Circle and Cycle encompassing all.
Meredith Ann PiercePolitics:
Lies about the truth,
or the truth about lies?
Knowledge is like an endless resource; a well of water that satisfies the innate thirst of the growing human soul. Therefore never stop learning... because the day you do, you will also stop maturing.
Chidi OkonkwoTags: wisdom science inspirational knowledge inspirational-quotes science-fiction sci-fi wisdom-quote wisdom-inspirational
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