Quotes Tagged "knowledge-wisdom"

Emotion without reason lets people walk all over you; reason without emotion is a mask for cruelty.

Unless we learn to know ourselves, we run the danger of destroying ourselves.

The ultimate goal of humanity is knowledge.

First knowledge is the knowledge of God.

The results of knowledge without application results in nothing at all. Do what you know better to do.

It's a funny thing about life, once you begin to take note of the things you are grateful for, you begin to lose sight of the things that you lack.

If you want the answer—ask the question.

Is it not by learning to read the book of nature with the eyes of faith that we come to recognize the drop of divinity that resides in our own souls though hidden, master? In the end is this not faith; to seek the light that takes us further, the light of Christ that brings that to which reason and knowledge alone can never raise itself? This is truth!

Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

Knowledge without application is simply knowledge. Applying the knowledge to one’s life is wisdom — and that is the ultimate virtue

We don’t know anything about silent sages, buried knowledge, the eye of the mute poet, serene seers, yet how many talkative destroyers, prophets and ideologues, teachers and beautifiers there are on the other side.

We are no longer in the dispensation of age and experience. We are in the era of knowledge and information. Information leads a true leader and a true leader leads others.

Wrote my way out of the hood...thought my way out of poverty! Don't tell me that knowledge isn't power. Education changes everything.

If the way of wisdom was easy, anyone would have walked in. Wisdom is not a whore she is a shy mademoiselle so only those who strives wins her heart.

Not every kind of knowledge is good. One must confine one’s curiosity to a single direction.

Time, as it grows old, teaches all things.

Some details are lost to time, and in fact it’s for the best. To ever feel that you understand anything only means that your mind has turned rigid.

There is much that I do not know and I'd like to know even less.

There is no limit to how good you can get in pursuit of perfection.

La lectura, asegura, ampliaría mi experiencia del mundo. Las ideas que se encuentran en los libros serios darían profundidad a mis pensamientos sobre cada decisión que tomo.