Eduardo Ermita Quotes

I should know about this because I am the chairman of the policy group. But I had no knowledge of that until this report, ... We?re talking every week. We meet every week but we did not have any information about such negotiations.

Eduardo Ermita

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• I am disillusioned enough to know that no man's opinion on any subject is worth a damn unless backed up with enough genuine information to make him really know what he's talking about.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Opinion
  • Information
  • Talking

• Cynicism is something which has become symbolic of imperial policy.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Something
  • Policy
  • Become

• Basically, our goal is to organize the world's information and to make it universally accessible and useful.

  

  Larry Page
  • World
  • Goal
  • Information

• He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Life
  • Nature
  • Knowledge

• 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.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Life
  • Up
  • Knowledge

• Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Life
  • Knowledge
  • Taken

• I am in favor of complete freedom of information and of free access to the new communication tools, in particular the Internet.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • Free
  • Freedom
  • Communication

• Summer is not obligatory. We can start an infernally hard jigsaw puzzle in June with the knowledge that, if there are enough rainy days, we may just finish it by Labor Day, but if not, there's no harm, no penalty. We may have better things to do.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • May
  • Knowledge
  • Day

• Despite all the drawbacks, the Internet provides a wide array of information - and some of it is being watched pretty carefully by the pros.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • Pretty
  • Internet
  • Information

• Serving up ads based on behavioral targeting can itself be an invasion of privacy, especially when the information used is personal.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Up
  • Information
  • Privacy

• Words that add no new information or aren't repeated for emphasis are just padding. A sentence may carry three or five or eight of them, each one as unnoticeable as an extra two ounces on your hips but collectively adding up to a large burden of fat.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Up
  • May
  • Words

• I read many things. I read to fill in my knowledge of the world.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • World
  • Knowledge
  • Fill

• Of course, there will always be those who look only at technique, who ask 'how', while others of a more curious nature will ask 'why'. Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.

  

  Man Ray
  • Inspiration
  • Information
  • Technique

• When an unbaked pot is broken, the potter can use the mud to make a new one; but when a baked one is broken, he cannot do the same any longer. So when a person dies in a state of ignorance, he is born again; but when he becomes well baked in the fire of true knowledge and dies a perfect man, he is not born again.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • True
  • Knowledge
  • Perfect

• Sun-worship and pure forms of nature-worship were, in their day, noble religions, highly allegorical but full of profound truth and knowledge.

  

  Annie Besant
  • Truth
  • Nature
  • Knowledge

• In order to enter into a real knowledge of your condition, consider it in this image: A man was cast by a tempest upon an unknown island, the inhabitants of which were in trouble to find their king, who was lost; and having a strong resemblance both in form and face to this king, he was taken for him, and acknowledged in this capacity by all the people.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • People
  • Real
  • Strong

• The mind-stuff is not spread in space and time. But we must presume that in some other way or aspect it can be differentiated into parts. Only here and there does it arise to the level of consciousness, but from such islands proceeds all knowledge. The latter includes our knowledge of the physical world.

  

  Arthur Eddington
  • Time
  • World
  • Mind

• We are as much as we see. Faith is sight and knowledge. The hands only serve the eyes.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • Faith
  • Knowledge
  • Eyes

• With 'True Grit,' the language was very specific, as is Shakespeare. You couldn't really improvise, nor would you really ever have to. I never felt the need to. It was all so beautifully written, and it was all right there.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • True
  • Language
  • Grit

• Our purpose is simply to ask how theological principles can be shown to have usable secular analogues that throw light upon the nature of language.

  

  Kenneth Burke
  • Nature
  • Light
  • Purpose

• Are you not moved to tears and bitter compassion, when you behold the only Son of God seized by the most impious, dragged away, mocked, scourged, buffeted, spit upon, crowned with thorns, hung upon the infamous cross between two thieves, finally in such a horrible and execrable manner suffering death, for your salvation and that of the world?

  

  Peter Abelard
  • World
  • God
  • Death

• I should know about this because I am the chairman of the policy group. But I had no knowledge of that until this report, ... We?re talking every week. We meet every week but we did not have any information about such negotiations.

  

  Eduardo Ermita
  • Knowledge
  • Information
  • Policy