[...] science carries us towards an understanding of how the world is, rather than how we would wish it to be [...]
Begin to convert your time into knowledge and wisdom
There is no knowledge like kindness.
The ninety degree shift does not cancel the effects of old age upon the physical body, but it does enable warriors to retain control of all their faculties, their knowledge, sobriety, and power, right up to and even beyond the moment of physical death. This is every warrior's reward for having been willing to fight impeccably right up until the final breath.
More appealing than knowledge itself is the feeling of knowing.
An uninformed judgement, even when right, is often less useful than a reasoned view, even when wrong, that can then be dissected, examined, and corrected.
A gun is just a tool. No better and no worse than any other tool, a shovel - or an axe or a saddle or a stove or anything. Think of it always that way. A gun is as good - and as bad - as the man who carries it.
An expert is an ordinary person who consistently sought knowledge in a specific field and applied it.
Due to the experience of being in new places, our horizons and knowledge of foreign languages expand, which also influences the development and mental health of the person
[...] I try not to think with my gut. If I'm serious about understanding the world, thinking with anything besides my brain, as tempting as that might be, is likely to get me into trouble. Really, it's okay to reserve judgement until the evidence is in.
In science we may start with experimental results, data, observations, measurements, βfactsβ. We invent, if we can, a rich array of possible explanations and systematically confront each explanation with the facts.
Knowledge does not stand still; it flows into the company, and it flows out of it; it erodes, and it gets created again.
The heart holds all the knowledge of the universe. Most people barely scratch the surface of what the heart contains. They donβt get out of their overanxious minds. They donβt realize that the entire universe resides in the heart and that is where Everything is waiting.
Teaching holds a mirror to the soul. If I am willing to look in that mirror and not run from what I see I have a chance to gain self knowledge and knowing myself is as crucial to good teaching as knowing my students and my subject. In fact, knowing my students and my subject depends heavily on self knowledge.
Oh what a feeling when you happen upon a book that seems to pour truth directly into your head.
I often find that people either underestimate what they know, or overestimate it. Very rarely do they gauge their own knowledge appropriately.
Only God has the Absolute Truth. He has broken it into pieces and distributed it among those yearning for it, so we may always need one another.
True knowledge is earned, not given.
I agree that I know nothing. And you know nothing. So, I say, let's figure out together - two equally conditioned pedestrians of freedom with equal potential for truth.
Do not assume to know. You will be surprised to realize you were ignorant all along.
