Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Knowledge Quotes

If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things. -- Rene Descartes
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in. -- Leonardo da Vinci
Be curious. Read widely. Try new things. I think a lot of what people call intelligence just boils down to curiosity. - Aaron Swartz
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Anything too stupid to be said is sung. – Voltaire
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for. -- Oscar Wilde
Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.' -- Kahlil Gibran
Be yourself. Everyone else is already taken. - Oscar Wilde
Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it. -- George Orwell
The 200 years ago British educated their stars in Philosophy, Literature, Greek and Latin, Physics and Astronomy. They conquered 30 % of this earth. Today their do focused MBAs and are sinking in the mud..
He not busy being born is busy dying. -- Bob Dylan
Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck - Dalai Lama
"Champions aren't made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them - a desire, a dream, a vision." Muhammad Ali
Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place. -- Abigail Van Buren
“Creativity is the only legal way to secure an unfair advantage” Maurice Saatchi
Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain. - Edward de Bono
Whoever walks with the wise will become wise; whoever walks with fools will suffer harm. (Proverbs 13:20 The Bible)
I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it. -- Thomas Jefferson
To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge. -- Benjamin Disraeli
Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock. -- Ben Hecht
I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion. ALEXANDER the Great
"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing." - Albert Einstein
"The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education." - Albert Einstein
“Wisdom is knowledge with understanding and perspective." - Eolake Stobblehouse
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. – Aristotle
"Imagination is more important than knowledge." - Albert Einstein
"Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is freedom." - Marilyn Ferguson
In the field of observation, chance favors only the prepared mind. -- Louis Pasteur
olding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life. -- Joan Lunden
In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted. -- Bertrand Russell

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