All Quotes By Tag: Knowledge

“The hardest thing of all is to find a black cat in a dark room, especially if there is no cat.”

“I am an atheist, out and out. It took me a long time to say it. I’ve been an atheist for years and years, but somehow I felt it was intellectually unrespectable to say one was an atheist, because it assumed knowledge that one didn’t have. Somehow, it was better to say one was a humanist or an agnostic. I finally decided that I’m a creature of emotion as well as of reason. Emotionally, I am an atheist. I don’t have the evidence to prove that God doesn’t exist, but I so strongly suspect he doesn’t that I don’t want to waste my time.”

“That’s the problem with best friends. Sometimes they know you better than you know yourself.”

“Don’t wish…DO! Don’t try…BE! Don’t think…KNOW! And above all: Bless a stranger with a small, yet powerful, random act of kindness. You feel me?”

“It would be the height of absurdity to label ignorance tempered by humility “faith”!(Institutio III.2.3)”

“Give me the storm and tempest of thought and action, rather than the dead calm of ignorance and faith! Banish me from Eden when you will; but first let me eat of the fruit of the tree of knowledge!”

“I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.”

“I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith.”

“You can’t know, you can only believe – or not.”

“They told us to depend on memory, because nothing written down could be relied on. The Spirit travels from mouth to mouth, not from thing to thing: books could be burnt, paper crumbles away, computers could be destroyed. Only the spirit lives forever, and the Spirit isn’t a thing.”

“It’s not in the will to prove an idea to be true but in the utmost desire to disprove it, that the absolute truth emerges.”

“Would you mind if that post, pic, comment or content was seen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year? If the answer is yes, then don’t post it today.”

“Backing up your argument with unnamed sources, rumored facts and hearsay only backs your view and your professional reputation into a corner. Argue the facts with validity, authority and substantial proof or walk away. It is ok to say you don’t know and it can serve your reputation better than sharing what you can’t prove.”

“You do not need to commit yourself 24/7 to building your dream. You do need to commit to making every hour you work on your dream to be as effective and productive as possible……So you can have the life you always wanted before, during and after your dream comes to fruition.”

“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.”