Quote:- The end of man is knowledge, but there is one thing he can’t know. He can’t know whether knowledge will save him or kill him. He will be killed, all right, but he can’t know whether he is killed because of the knowledge which he has got or because the knowledge which he hasn’t got and which if he had it, would save him.
All the King's Men
Author:- Robert Penn Warren
Category:- knowledge
Quote:- The enemy must not know where I intend to give battle. For if he does not know where I intend to give battle he must prepare in a great many places,. And when he prepares in a great many places, those I have to fight in any one place will be few.For if he prepares to the front his rear will be weak, and if to the rear, his front will be fragile. If he prepares to the left, his right will be vulnerable and if to the right, there will be few on his left. And when he prepares everywhere he will be weak everywhere. One who has few must prepare against the enemy; one who has many makes the enemy prepare against him.If one knows where and when a battle will be fought his troops can march a thousand li and meet on the field. But if one knows neither the battleground nor the day of battle, the left will be unable to aid the right, or the right, the left; the van to support the rear, or the rear, the van. How much more is this so when separate by several tens of li, or, indeed, by even a few!
The Art of War
Author:- Sun Tzu
Category:- knowledge
Quote:- The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
Author:- Orson Welles
Category:- motivational
Quote:- The enemy that is Envy is trigger-happy; he's pretty much a gunslinger who wields a silenced Demotivator - sent with sabotage, suicide, and suppression, he assassinates in secret, and so hopes to exterminate, to kill what was meant to motivate him - in simpler terms and less expression: he shoots the messenger.
Author:- Criss Jami
Category:- motivational,inspiration
Quote:- The energy and daring is to resist the noes, until the final yes has been achieved.
Author:- Jeffrey D. Sachs
Category:- science
Quote:- The energy it took to exit mother’s womb is the same force required to manifest a dream...a different kind of struggle. Push, push, push!
From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"
Author:- T.F. Hodge
Category:- best
Quote:- The engineer’s ready capitulation, however, did not hide from the poet’s mother the sad realization that the adventure into which she had plunged so impulsively--and which had seemed so intoxicatingly beautiful--had no turned out to be the great, mutually fulfilling love she was convinced she had a full right to expect. Her father was the owner of two prosperous Prague pharmacies, and her morality was based on strict give-and-take. For her part, she had invested everything in love (she had even been willing to sacrifice her parents and their peaceful existence); in turn, she had expected her partner to invest an equal amount of capital of feelings in the common account. To redress the imbalance, she gradually withdrew her emotional deposit and after the wedding presented a proud, severe face to her husband.
Life is Elsewhere
Author:- Milan Kundera
Category:- Relationships
Quote:- The English novels are the only relaxation of the intellectually unemployed. But one should not be too severe on them. They show a want of knowledge that must be the result of years of study.
Author:- Oscar Wilde
Category:- knowledge
Quote:- The erruption of feelings & emotions that follows a near-death exerience, or any event that causes us to stop & look deeply at the reality of our lives, is ripe with the potential for insight & clarity.
Pocket Peace: Effective Practices for Enlightened Living
Author:- Allan Lokos
Category:- inspiration
Quote:- The essence of every moment is to find the reason or purpose for being in a particular place at a specific point in time.
Life Is A Circus
Author:- Steven Redhead
Category:- time
Quote:- The essence of independence has been to think and act according to standards from within, not without: to follow one's own path, not that of the crowd.
Rebels and Devils: The Psychology of Liberation (Revised)
Author:- Nicholas Tharcher
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- The essence of life does not consist in the lushness of your possessions, but in the richness of your heart.
Author:- Roy T. Bennett
Category:- Life,inspiration
Quote:- The essence of religion remains love and kindness, yet it has been the biggest cause of hatred and violence.
Author:- Mouloud Benzadi
Category:- Love
Quote:- The essence of science is that it is always willing to abandon a given idea for a better one; the essence of theology is that it holds its truths to be eternal and immutable.
Author:- H.L. Mencken
Category:- science
Quote:- The essence of sharing knowledge is to keep a tool ready so that whoever is ready can pick it up and continue from where one stopped.
Author:- Aniekee Tochukwu Ezekiel
Category:- knowledge,time
Quote:- The essence of technology is by no means anything technological.
Basic Writings
Author:- Martin Heidegger
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- The essential fact which emerges ... is that the three smallest and most active reservoirs ( of carbon in the global carbon cycle), the atmosphere, the plants and the soil, are all of roughly the same size. This means that large human disturbance of any one of these reservoirs will have large effects on all three. We cannot hope either to understand or to manage the carbon in the atmosphere unless we understand and manage the trees and the soil too.
From Eros to Gaia
Author:- Freeman Dyson
Category:- science
Quote:- The essential point is that systems of knowledge are never given in their entirety at the outset of an investigation. Their meaning unfolds only gradually, through the exploration of their implications with the help of external representations - for example, by doing calculations, applying a conceptual framework to new circumstances, exposing systems to debate within an epistemic community, and so forth. We therefore speak of the 'generative ambiguity' of external representations, which leads to their seemingly paradoxical function in knowledge transmission: on the one hand, they secure and stabilize the transmission of knowledge over generations, thus ensuring its longevity, while they serve, on the other hand, as tools for thinking and thus agents of change and innovation in the transmission of knowledge.
The Evolution of Knowledge: Rethinking Science for the Anthropocene
Author:- Jürgen Renn
Category:- knowledge