Quotes Tagged "apply"

Knowledge is having a wide range of past history, whereas wisdom is being able to apply history to the present and the future.

We ought to, as human beings, have the courage to seek a collective “truth” that benefits our species the most, and to accept that all of our doctrines and beliefs may just be incomplete. That we don’t know it all and that perhaps we never will. That others like us may have something to teach us, and we may have something to contribute to their communities. That communities, types of people, are divisions we’ve created for ourselves. That for all of what we know, the knowledge and wisdom that we have gathered in the few millennia may be a small fraction of what is there to be discovered, understood and applied.

Make your education valuable. Apply what you learnt. Refuse to take the back seat and watch things happen. Join the change and be part of the change.

They that apply themselves to trifling matters commonly become incapable of great ones.

I have therefore concluded to apply for the privilege of becoming a Cadet at West Point.

Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows.

Vanity can apply to both insecurity and egotism.

There is no denying that entertainment industries are insular, but you can't generalise that statement and apply it to everyone.

Liability does apply with respect to the amount of the oil spill.

I liberally apply sunscreen and wear hats.

I don't have a visa for the U.S., and I don't want to apply for one. And I don't want to fly for that long.