All Quotes By Tag: Knowledge

“I applied mine heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom, And the reason of things, And to know the wickedness of folly, even of foolishness and madness: And I find more bitter than death, the woman, whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands as bands-”

“Your whole being is deeply troubled- personified the vision of a child’s purity, lost in the wilderness of an ever-unchanging and imperfect world.”

“Loneliness is your only companion.”

“All humans are sentient and sapient beings so they have the ability to perceive, think, and act using their knowledge, experience, insight, and conscience.”

“Knowledge is worth nothing, until it is put to practice.”

“My grief were thoroughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together! For now it would be heavier than the sand of the desert.”

“What is my strength, that I should hope? Is my strength the strength of stone? Or is my flesh of brass? Is not my help in me.”

“Though dead is promised to me, when will I slumber, deep? Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? Are not his days also like the days of an hireling? As a servant earnestly desires the shadow, and as an hireling looks for the reward of his work: So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.”

“Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, And life unto the bitter in soul; Which long for death, but it cometh not; And dig for it more than for hid treasures; Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?”

“One generation passes away, and another generation cometh forth: but the earth abides for ever.”

“All things are full of labour; man cannot utter it; the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.”

“teach your brain now .. don’t wait until life teach you !”

“You have strength born of years of grief and anger… The strength of a man denied revenge.”

“It is a tragedy of modern life that the light of truth scares the society much more than the darkness of ignorance.”

“It was strange to Old Robert that he, who knew so much more than his neighbors, who had pondered so endlessly, should be not even a good farmer. Sometimes he imagined he understood too many things ever to do anything well.”