Belief is a shelter, a prison for a curious mind.

Foolish men always believe that a little knowledge will give them control over the world, but it is no more than a display of their vanity.

Kupata maarifa kutokana na shida ni jambo la kawaida maana shida ni kipimo cha akili, lakini kupata maarifa bila shida ni hekima maana hekima ni ufunguo wa maamuzi mema na udadisi wa kiakili.

Write what you know. That should leave you with a lot of free time.

Our pursuits are for perfection but possibilities are endless.

Modern civilization depends on science … James Smithson was well aware that knowledge should not be viewed as existing in isolated parts, but as a whole, each portion of which throws light on all the...

The measure of greatness is in humility, simplicity, and in kindness.

Many modern artists, philosophers, and theologians reject the knowledge of the past. Thus they must continually start over again from ground zero, their vision restricted to their own narrow perspectives, making themselves artificially primitive.

I attribute my success to my deep driving desire and persistence to face the tremendous adversity.

What defines our world; believes, thoughts, dreams, decisions, choices and actions.

Life has dazzling beauty. To see it, open the window of the mind and remove the curtain of conformity.

Ignorance never yet helped anybody.

Let us express our deepest gratitude for every moment that we spend in loving, laughing, and living out time that we call life.

Knowledge is the ultimate weapon. It always has been.

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...

The true birthplace is that wherein for the first time one looks intelligently upon oneself; my first homelands have been books, and to a lesser degree schools.

Confidence is ignorance. If you’re feeling cocky, it’s because there’s something you don’t know.

Detachment is not the absence of emotion, it is the process of becoming one with the Oneness that is the Universe. To be detached, is to realize that the fullness of all there is, is...

Act on the possibilities and opportunities in front of you. Your future will be bright and blissful, whatever you do.

Knowledge, understanding, and wisdom is naught to the man who is incapable of applying it.

It is not important how much money you gave away. It is important what good it will do on the way.

The difference between the university graduate and the autodidact lies not so much in the extent of knowledge as in the extent of vitality and self-confidence

In the problems lie the opportunities. You become strong by facing adversities.

I go determined that those responsible for these cowardly crimes will be held accountable. I go secure in the knowledge that America will never be intimidated or back down in the face of terrorists,

The road of life’s twists and turns give wisdom; reading books and schooling give you knowledge.

They do not learn, fixed in their ways as they are. You are naïve tothink otherwise. It’s an illness, Assassin, for which there is but one cure.’‘You’re wrong. And that’s why you must be put...

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.

The only defense against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more intelligent and more educated than college professors.

Be according to your possibility.

To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.

Create your own god in your mind whom you can love, trust, and follow.

Words are more dangerous than swords and guns. They reach further and hurt deeper.

Our spirit is always in peace but our ego is looking for war, so calm the ego and love the spirit forever.

… there is no shame in not knowing. The problem arises when irrational thought and attendant behavior fill the vacuum left by ignorance.

The best road I want to walk on is the road surrounded by peace.

There is no one way to salvation, whatever the manner in which a man may proceed. All forms and variations are governed by the eternal intelligence of the Universe that enables a man to approach...

One hears a great many things, true, but can gather nothing definite.

People fail 2 ways: 1) don’t know what to do 2) don’t do what they know; therefore, great leaders must educate and inspire.

Was not Hypatia the greatest philosopher of Alexandria, and a true martyr to the old values of learning? She was torn to pieces by a mob of incensed Christians not because she was a woman,...

Ideas are the source of all things

Focus on kindness not on hate.Bliss will flow to open the gate.

How would it alter Juliet’s love perception to learn the sea is but a rounded jug of water? Would her sensuous analogy turned simple simile unveil to her the limits of herself? Or would she...

We are the future; we are your children.We will make this world a peaceful garden.

The heights of the spirit can only be climbed by passing through the portals of humility. You can only acquire right knowledge when you have learnt to esteem it. Man has certainly the right to...

There is no beast or beauty.There is no task or duty.There is only you.

All wisdom comes from God.

Create memories every day. Enjoy every moment every way.

Plato said that we are trapped inside a cave and know the world only through the shadows it casts on the wall. The skull is our cave, and mental representations are the shadows.

Where’s your church?””We’re standing in it.””But this is a bookstore and it’s a Friday.””Yes, but you might also choose to see it as a cathedral of the human spirit-a storehouse consecrated to the full spectrum...