Top 1200 Historical Knowledge Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

The Socratic maxim that the recognition of our ignorance is the beginning of wisdom has profound significance for our understanding of society. Most of the advantages of social life, especially in the more advanced forms that we call "civilization" rest on the fact that the individual benefits from more knowledge than he is aware of. It might be said that civilization begins when the individual in the pursuit of his ends can make use of more knowledge than he has himself acquired and when he can transcend the boundaries of his ignorance by profiting from knowledge he does not himself possess.

Terrorism cannot be isolated from its political, historical, and even social context.

I turned to historical films because they pass censors more easily.

It is historical continuity that maintains most assumptions, not repeated assessment of their validity.

Our historical responsibility does not end at the Austrian or European border.

Without doubt, President [Barack] Obama is a great historical figure.

To act on the belief that we possess the knowledge and the power which enable us to shape the processes of society entirely to our liking, knowledge which in fact we do not possess, is likely to make us do much harm.

There's a lot more historical baggage to deal with as a wife than as a partner.

There is no knowledge and science like pondering and thought; and there is no prosperity and advancement like knowledge and science.

Expect to feel pleasure. Knowledge is sexy. Expect to feel pain. Knowledge is torture.

Another faculty has released this knowledge: our spirit. It is God’s Word in our spirit. It creates a reality that registers in our spirit. We live by this spiritual knowledge and walk in its light.

If we look too closely at many historical figures, we won't like what we see.

The mere stuffing of the mind with a knowledge of facts is not education. The mind must not only possess a knowledge of the truth, but the soul must revere it, cherish it, love it as a priceless gem; and this human life must be guided and shaped by it in order to fulfill its destiny.

A man goes to knowledge as he goes to war: wide-awake, with fear, with respect, and with absolute assurance. Going to knowledge or going to war in any other manner is a mistake, and whoever makes it might never live to regret it

Precise knowledge is the only true knowledge, and he who does not teach exactly, does not teach at all.

For a long time, I've been interested in cultural memory and historical erasure.

I think it will be found that he who speaks with most authority on a given subject is not ignorant of what has been said by his predecessors. He will take his place in a regular order, and substantially add his own knowledge to the knowledge of previous generations.

There is no greater weapon than knowledge and no greater source of knowledge than the written word.

A knowledge of our ability to consciously radiate health, strength, and harmony will bring us into a realization that there is nothing to fear because we are in touch with Infinite Strength. This knowledge can be gained only by making a practical application of this information. We learn by doing-through practice the athlete becomes powerful.

A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts.

But it is the knowledge of necessary and eternal truths which distinguishes us from mere animals, and gives us reason and the sciences, raising us to knowledge of ourselves and God. It is this in us which we call the rational soul or mind.

The end of being is to know; and if you say, the end of knowledge is action,-why, yes, but the end of that action again, is knowledge.

The historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence

There are interesting scientific and historical connections between these things that I just love.

It can be a long gap between the emergence of fully researched historical biographies.

My sex life is so bad, my G-spot has been declared a historical landmark.

For some students, especially in the sciences, the knowledge gained in college may be directly relevant to graduate study. For almost all students, a liberal arts education works in subtle ways to create a web of knowledge that will illumine problems and enlighten judgment on innumerable occasions in later life.

The church lives because it witholds the results of the historical Jesus-research from you

For many women, the experience of prostitution stems from the historical trauma of colonization.

[I]t was with a good end in mind – that of acquiring the knowledge of good and evil – that Eve allowed herself to be carried away and eat the forbidden fruit. But Adam was not moved by this desire for knowledge, but simply by greed: he ate it because he heard Eve say it tasted good.

I have long been active in and supportive of conservation and historical preservation causes.

I'm truly overwhelmed by the beauty of the land, the culture, and the historical significance of Egypt.

What helped me a lot was that I chose an American lead protagonist, because that liberated a lot from my own knowledge. If I had approached it from the perspective of an Indian main character, I think I would have assumed a lot of knowledge and I would have resented the presence of the author.

The trouble with the Socialist Workers Party is that they live in an historical thermos-flask.

Most people don't like to talk about violent historical death.

The end of the Cold War removed the immediate causes of whole destruction but not the threat contained in our knowledge. We must tame this knowledge with the ideals of justice, caring, and compassion summoned from our common human spiritual and moral heritage, if we are to live in peace and serenity in the twenty-first century.

Thinking is progress. Non-thinking is stagnation of the individual, organisation and the country. Thinking leads to action. Knowledge without action is useless and irrelevant. Knowledge with action, converts adversity into prosperity.

You have to push on both pedals to make the wheels go 'round. Similarly, you need faith in Christ as well as knowledge. The problem is that there are always Christians who want to push one pedal - either knowledge or experience. We need both.

The philosopher says that God's knowledge is the measure of things, and that things are the measure of man's knowledge.

To me, if there is any sort of value added to the accumulation of knowledge over time, then the work of artists should be a reflection of that accumulated value, accumulated knowledge. You have to demonstrate that you have the sophistication to put that into play in the work you're making.

Remember that accumulated knowledge, like accumulated capital, increases at compound interest: but it differs from the accumulation of capital in this; that the increase of knowledge produces a more rapid rate of progress, whilst the accumulation of capital leads to a lower rate of interest. Capital thus checks it own accumulation: knowledge thus accelerates its own advance. Each generation, therefore, to deserve comparison with its predecessor, is bound to add much more largely to the common stock than that which it immediately succeeds.

The Earth is alive and contains the knowledge you seek. It is your consciousness that determines what it reveals. How to access this knowledge? And where are the keys to open it and make it yours? The Earth speaks. Love her, honor and respect her and she will reveal her secrets.

The fact that television and tourism have made the whole world accessible has created the illusion that we enjoy intimate knowledge of other places, when we barely scratch their surface. For the vast majority, the knowledge of Thailand or Sri Lanka acquired through tourism consists of little more than the whereabouts of the beach.

A good monetary policy follows inflationary expectations and not historical numbers.

I think I honestly invented my own genre, the historical spy novel.

There is a difference between what technology enables and what historical business practices enable.

As a publisher and author, I'm a big fan of historical fiction and also memoir.

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

The violent, antirationalistic impulse in Western countries is reacting to an intellectual state of affairs in which all thinking has become strategy; this impulse shows a disgust for a certain form of self-preservation. It is a sensitive shivering from the cold breath of a reality where knowledge is power and power is knowledge.

Historical methodology, as I see it, is a product of common sense applied to circumstances.

Learning is not virtue but the means to bring us an acquaintance with it. Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. Let these be your motives to action through life, the relief of the distressed, the detection of frauds, the defeat of oppression, and diffusion of happiness.

Only a creature that can think symbolically about life can conceive of its own death. Our knowledge of death is part of our knowledge of life.

I always wanted to be historical, from almost a baby on, I felt that way about it.

And finally, it was Deuteronomy that brought about the historical result of Josiah's reformation.

I'm trying to change the way people approach knowledge and information in general. I think that to try to own knowledge, to try to control whether people are allowed to use it, or to try to stop other people from sharing it, is sabotage.

Historical analogy is the last refuge of people who can't grasp the current situation.

Nothing will ever top 'The Wire.' It was historical. It was black cinema.

Every human being relies on and is bounded by his knowledge and experience to live. This is what we call “reality”. However, knowledge and experience are ambiguous, thus reality can become illusion. Is it not possible to think that, all human beings are living in their assumptions?

There is no sociology worthy of the name which does not possess a historical character.

Our weapon is our knowledge. But remember, it may be a knowledge we may not know that we possess.