Top 1200 Thirst For Knowledge Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

God came into the world to reawaken the thirst for great things in us.

What are the relationships between power and knowledge? There are two bad, short answers: 1. Knowledge provides an instrument that those in power can wield for their own ends. 2. A new body of knowledge brings into being a new class of people or institutions that can exercise a new kind of power.

It is wretched business to be digging a well just as thirst is mastering you.

The drought was the very worst when the flowers that we'd grown together died of thirst.

The true bounds and limitations, whereby human knowledge is confined and circumscribed,... are three: the first, that we do not so place our felicity in knowledge, as we forget our mortality: the second, that we make application of our knowledge, to give ourselves repose and contentment, and not distates or repining: the third, that we do not presume by the contemplation of Nature to attain to the mysteries of God.

Self knowledge puts us on our knees, and it is very necessary for love. For knowledge of God gives love, and knowledge of self gives humility

Like hunger or thirst, the instinct for balance is built into the human body.

The thirst for vengeance was the beautiful nature which Homer imitated.

The man who lives beside the water hole does not dream of thirst.

I work with history because I come from a country that has a tremendous thirst for reality.

Soccer just couldn't satisfy my thirst for watching violence up close.

I never drink without a thirst, either present or future.

Hunger, thirst, heat and cold: I had tasted them in full

I feel the terror of idleness, like a red thirst. Death isn't just an idea.

There is oftentimes a great deal of knowledge where there is but little wisdom to improve that knowledge. It is not the most knowing Christian but the most wise Christian that sees, avoids, and escapes Satan's snares. Knowledge without wisdom is like mettle in a blind horse, which is often an occasion of the rider's fall.

So much greater is our thirst for glory than for virtue.

I saw the desert, it grew upon me. There are times, when I have sorrows, that I hunger and thirst for it.

The focus of education should not be on suppressive information but on kindling the thirst for knowing.

The essence of religion, in my view, is the thirst for an end higher than natural ends.

The thirst of desire is never filled, nor fully satisfied.

The best thing workers can bring to their jobs is a lifelong thirst for learning.

What if my greatest disappointments, or the aching of this life, is the revealing of a greater thirst this world can't satisfy?

When your throat is parched with thirst, do you desire a cup of gold?

The thirst after happiness is never extinguished in the heart of man.

When my thirst for joy is satisfied by Christ, sin becomes unattractive.

The importance of language in gaining knowledge is doubtless the chief cause of the common notion that knowledge may be passed directly from one to another. It almost seems as if all we have to do to convey an idea into the mind of another is to convey a sound into his ear. Thus imparting knowledge gets assimilated to a purely physical process.

It is good knowing that glasses are to drink from; the bad thing is not to know what thirst is for.

Truth lifts the heart, like water refreshes thirst.

Thirst after body is the great bane of human life.

Thirst of wealth no quiet knows, But near the death-bed fierce grows.

The thirst for vengeance was the beautiful nature which Homer imitated

According to Krishnamacharya , practice and knowledge must always go together. He used to say, practice without right knowledge of theory is blind. This is also because without right knowledge, one can mindfully do a wrong practice.

Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst, and cold.

As was the case for Nobel's own invention of dynamite, the uses that are made of increased knowledge can serve both beneficial and potentially harmful ends. Increased knowledge clearly implies increased responsibility. We reject the notion advocated in some quarters that man should stop eating from the tree of knowledge, as if that were humanly possible.

All knowledge is local, all truth is partial. No truth can make another truth untrue. All knowledge is part of the whole knowledge. Once you have seen the larger pattern, you cannot go back to seeing the part as the whole.

Care clings to wealth: the thirst for more Grows as our fortunes grow.

Thirst teaches all animals to drink, but drunkenness belongs only to man.

Thirst drove me down to the water where I drank the moon's reflection.

Knowledge doesn't really form part of human nature. Conflict, combat, the outcome of the combat, and, consequently, risk and chance are what gives rise to knowledge. Knowledge is not instinctive; it is counter instinctive, just as it is not natural but counter natural.

For the thirst to possess your love, Is worth my blood a hundred times.

Thirst of power and of riches now bear sway, The passion and infirmity of age.

It is well documented that Fox News has the audience demographics that other networks thirst for.

When one has a famishing thirst for happiness, one is apt to gulp down diversions wherever they are offered.

Justice should not admit a public's thirst for pure revenge.

There are two easy ways to die in the desert - thirst and drowning.

Love is the heart s immortal thirst to be completely known and all forgiven.

Honestly, the egos and the quest and thirst for power is very prevalent in Washington.

A thirst for gold, The beggar's vice, which can but overwhelm The meanest hearts.

A man is saved no faster than he gets knowledge. For if he does not get knowledge, he will be brought into captivity by some evil power in the other world, as evil spirits will have more knowledge, and consequently more power.

It is the effect of scarcity; one’s rules of propriety make one thirst for the improper.

Knowledge signifies things known. Where there are no things known, there is no knowledge. Where there are no things to be known, there can be no knowledge. We have observed that every science, that is, every branch of knowledge, is compounded of certain facts, of which our sensations furnish the evidence. Where no such evidence is supplied, we are without data; we are without first premises; and when, without these, we attempt to build up a science, we do as those who raise edifices without foundations. And what do such builders construct? Castles in the air.

Blessing is a curse, seduction and thirst, feeds the hunger that burns inside.

Nothing else but an insatiate thirst of enjoying a greedily desired object.

My praise shall be dedicated to the mind itself. The mind is the man, and the knowledge is the mind. A man is but what he knoweth. The mind is but an accident to knowledge, for knowledge is the double of that which is.

I hear Socrates saying that the best seasoning for food is hunger; for drink, thirst.

Every woman who has had experience with sexual violence of any kind has not just pain, and not just hurt, but has knowledge. Knowledge of male supremacy. Knowledge of what it is. Knowledge of what it feels like. And can begin to think strategically about how to stop it. We are living under a reign of terror. Now what I want to say is that I want us to stop accepting that that's normal. And the only way that we can stop accepting that that's normal is if we refuse to have amnesia everyday of our lives.

I'm looking for someone to quench my thirst-for all eternity" -Luna Maxwell

Doesn't every encounter with God only cause us to thirst for Him more?

We do not for example say that the person has a perfect knowledge of some language L similar to English but still different from it. What we say is that the child or foreigner has a 'partial knowledge of English' or is 'on his or her way' towards acquiring knowledge of English, and if they reach this goal, they will then know English.

The saying that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing is, to my mind, a very dangerous adage. If knowledge is real and genuine, I do not believe that it is other than a very valuable posession, however infinitesimal its quantity may be. Indeed, if a little knowledge is dangerous, where is a man who has so much as to be out of danger?