- “The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in every generation is to reclaim a little more land, to add something to the extent and the solidity of our possessions. And even a cursory glance at the history of the biological sciences during the last quarter of a century is sufficient to justify the assertion, that the most potent instrument for the extension of the realm of natural knowledge which has come into men’s hands, since the publication of Newton’s ‘Principia’, is Darwin’s ‘Origin of Species.” ― Thomas Henry Huxley
- “As long as human beings are alive on planet earth, they will have to work, seek to manifest higher existence, enlightenment, paramashiva in them.” ― Paramahamsa Nithyananda
- “Knowledge is something which you can use.Belief is something which uses you.” ― Idries Shah, Reflections
- “Curiosity didn’t kill the Cat, it transformed the Cat into a Lion.” ― Constance Friday
- If book knowledge made great investors, than the librarians would all be rich. Warren Buffett
- “The significance of our lives and our fragile planet is then determined only by our own wisdom and courage. We are the custodians of life’s meaning. We long for a Parent to care for us, to forgive us our errors, to save us from our childish mistakes. But knowledge is preferable to ignorance. Better by far to embrace the hard truth than a reassuring fable. If we crave some cosmic purpose, then let us find ourselves a worthy goal.” ― Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
- “Do this experiment: After reading a message, don’t reply immediately. Wait for 24 hours. The reply would be different from what you would have replied immediately. Maybe you won’t even reply. Words hypnotize us and make us react like a drunkard. Silence dehypnotizes us.” ― Shunya
- “If one million of you give assent to the one thousand who participate in the murder of a child, then one million of you are a million times guilty.” ― Compton Gage
- “Are you really surprised by the endurance of religion? What ideology is likely to be more durable than one that conforms, at every turn, to our powers of wishful thinking? Hope is easy; knowledge is hard. Science is the one domain in which we human beings make a truly heroic effort to counter our innate biases and wishful thinking. Science is the one endeavor in which we have developed a refined methodology for separating what a person hopes is true from what he has good reason to believe. The methodology isn’t perfect, and the history of science is riddled with abject failures of scientific objectivity. But that is just the point-these have been failures of science, discovered and corrected by-what, religion? No, by good science.” ― Sam Harris
- “Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.” ― Ludwig Wittgenstein
- “Life, just like the stars, the planets and the galaxies, is just a temporary structure on the long road from order to disorder. But that doesn’t make us insignificant, because we are the Cosmos made conscious. Life is the means by which the universe understands itself. And for me, our true significance lies in our ability to understand and explore this beautiful universe.” ― Brian Cox
- “Through learning we re-create ourselves. Through learning we become able to do something we never were able to do. Through learning we reperceive the world and our relationship to it. Through learning we extend our capacity to create, to be part of the generative process of life” ― Peter M. Senge
- Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place – that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realise the great life. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
- “Spiritual literature can be a great aid to an aspirant, or it can be a terrible hindrance. If it is used to inspire practice, motivate compassion, ad nourish devotion, it serves a very valuable purpose. If scriptural study is used for mere intellectual understanding, for pride of accomplishment, or as a substitute for actual practice, then one is taking in too much mental food, which is sure to result in intellectual indigestion. (152)” ― Prem Prakash, The Yoga of Spiritual Devotion A Modern Translation of the Narada Bhakti Sutras
- “If you decide consciously to ferment bliss in you, you will maintain everything in your life – health, wealth, relationships, mental health, enlightenment, state of paramashiva, powers of paramashiva, space, being, superconsciousness of paramashiva, everything.” ― Paramahamsa Nithyananda
- “If you begin to live with a little respect and love for Existence and all its creations, you will be able to recognize these things happening in your own life as well. Nature will simply reciprocate your love in manybeautiful ways.” ― Paramahamsa Nithyananda
- “The less you know, the more you will be knownThe less you want, the more you will haveThe less you are, the more you will be” ― Vivian Amis, I Am: The Key to Manifesting
- “A farmer is a magician who produces money from the mud.” ― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words
- “Knowledge of thyself is the greatest enlightenment.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
- “Most of us who turn to any subject with love remember some morning or evening hour when we got on a high stool to reach down an untried volume, or sat with parted lips listening to a new talker, or for very lack of books began to listen to the voices within, as the first traceable beginning of our love.” ― George Eliot, Middlemarch
- “Perhaps the Creator of this strange place knows us better than we know ourselves. Perhaps humanity was meant to eternally ponder the purpose and importance of our own existence. If we were assured of either, we’d be intolerable creatures.” ― Tiffany Madison
- “Knowledge without wisdom is like a beautiful lady without morals” ― Ikechukwu Izuakor
- “They knew many things but had no idea why. And strangely this made them more, rather than less, certain that they were right.” ― Neal Stephenson, Anathem
- “You’re a hopeless romantic,” said Faber. “It would be funny if it were not serious. It’s not books you need, it’s some of the things that once were in books. The same things could be in the ‘parlor families’ today. The same infinite detail and awareness could be projected through the radios, and televisors, but are not. No,no it’s not books at all you’re looking for! Take it where you can find it, in old phonograph records, old motion pictures, and in old friends; look for it in nature and look for it in yourself. Books were only one type or receptacle where we stored a lot of things we were afraid we might forget. There is nothing magical in them at all. The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us. Of course you couldn’t know this, of course you still can’t understand what I mean when i say all this. You are intuitively right, that’s what counts.” ― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
- “Which do you think is more valuable to humanity?a. Finding ways to tell humans that they have free will despite the incontrovertible fact that their actions are completely dictated by the laws of physics as instantiated in our bodies, brains and environments? That is, engaging in the honored philosophical practice of showing that our notion of “free will” can be compatible with determinism?orb. Telling people, based on our scientific knowledge of physics, neurology, and behavior, that our actions are predetermined rather than dictated by some ghost in our brains, and then sussing out the consequences of that conclusion and applying them to society? Of course my answer is b).” ― Jerry A. Coyne
- “Intelligence arouses fear and respect, the lack of it keeps one on the narrow minded road of disrespect, stupidity and inferiority complex.” ― Michael Bassey Johnson
- “I am a student of life, and don’t want to miss any experience. There’s poetry in this sort of thing, you know–or perhaps you don’t know, but it’s all the same.” ― H.P. Lovecraft, Old Bugs
- “Poetry and art and knowledge are sacred and pure.” ― George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss
- “…hiding what you know is sometimes as important as knowing it…” ― Charles Duhigg, The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business
- “The unteachable man is sentenced to being taught only by experience. The tragedy is he reaches nothing further than his own pain.” ― Criss Jami, Killosophy