Owl Quotes - Page 4

By all means sometimes be alone; salute thyself; see what thy soul doth wear; dare to look in thy chest; and tumble up and down what thou findest there.

The greatest derangement of the mind is to believe in something because one wishes it to be so.

The initial step for us all to come to knowledge of God is contemplation of nature.

Action not backed by knowledge and knowledge not translatable into action, both can not stand the test of time.

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents... some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new Dark Age.

Positivism is a theory of knowledge according to which the only kind of sound knowledge available to human kind is that if science grounded in observation.

Mathematics is a more powerful instrument of knowledge than any other that has been bequeathed to us by human agency.

Learning is the process whereby knowledge is created through the transformation of experience

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

People cannot become truly knowledgeable without being excellent readers.

True knowledge is not attained by thinking. It is what you are; it is what you become.

Perhaps we're too embarrassed to change or too frightened of the consequences of showing that we actually care. But why not risk it anyway? Begin today. Carry out a random act of seemingly senseless kindness, with no expectation of reward or punishment, safe in the knowledge that one day, someone somewhere might do the same for you.

No man can know God unless God has taught him; that is to say, that without God, God cannot be known.

Whatever is expressed is impressed. Whatever you say to yourself, with emotion, generates thoughts, ideas and behaviors consistent with those words.

You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.

Unfortunately there was one thing that the white South feared more than Negro dishonesty, ignorance, and incompetency, and that was Negro honesty, knowledge, and efficiency.

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.

All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.

To build up a future, you have to know the past.

The more knowledge, the more responsibility. The more love, the more ability.

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.

To know the will of God is the greatest knowledge! To do the will of God is the greatest achievement.

The Fox knows many things-the hedgehog one big one.

Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment the treasurer, of a wise man.