Matisyahu (Matthew Paul Miller) Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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The hardest thing in the world for a writer is to amass a readership. So many good books come out, and so many good books disappear.
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Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.
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To the best of my knowledge, my youngest reader is 10 and the oldest is 95.
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I was always an avid reader of books. My vocabulary, my English are all thanks to that reading habit. Reading keeps me grounded. I came from a very middle class family – poor, in fact.
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I love books about treks and journeys into the unknown.
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There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.
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I grew up in Oregon so I grew up around reservations, so I've always kind of had this knowledge. Not a tremendous amount of knowledge, but an outsider's knowledge of what reservation life was like.
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Men we shall have only as we make manhood the object of the work of the schools - intelligence, broad sympathy, knowledge of the world that was and is, and of the relation of men to it - this is the curriculum of that Higher Education which must underlie true life.
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You think aerobics is not a cool sport? I think you are wrong. It requires amazing discipline - flexibility, fitness, knowledge. And you have to do it with a big smile on your face. Also, I once performed in front of 10,000 screaming women. I tell you something, I'd rather do that than kick a ball around in front of a few men.
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In a world in which the total of human knowledge is doubling about every ten years, our security can rest only on our ability to learn.
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Now all the knowledge and wisdom that is in creatures, whether angels or men, is nothing else but a participation of that one eternal, immutable and increased wisdom of God.
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I do feel fortunate to have some knowledge of the great Latin American writers, including some that are probably not that well known in English. I'm thinking of Jose Maria Arguedas, whom I read when I was living in Lima, and who really impacted the way I viewed my country.
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If you know you are on the right track, if you have this inner knowledge, then nobody can turn you off... no matter what they say.
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Superstition is marked not by its pretension to a body of knowledge but by its method of seeking truth.
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With the divine Knowledge of Advaita (non-duality) in you, do whatever you wish; for then no evil can ever come out of you.
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In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.
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Peace can be reached through meditation on the knowledge which dreams give. Peace can also be reached through concentration upon that which is dearest to the heart.
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Knowledge of birth control is essentially moral. Its general, though prudent, practice must lead to a higher individuality and ultimately to a cleaner race.
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Faith, n. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.
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In a perfect world, there would be freedom of religion and freedom for all religions to exercise their religion everywhere.
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I am lucky, I'm the first to admit that.
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Sequestration was not designed to be anyone's ideal method for getting our hands around government spending, and it certainly isn't mine.
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I try to incorporate melody. Even though I'm screaming, I still like to think I bring melody into screaming.
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Most of my life wasn't about knowledge from books, but experiential knowledge.
