Brian Morton Quotes

Knowledge is always a good thing, even when it makes us unhappy

Brian Morton

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• If you first fortify yourself with the true knowledge of the Universal Self, and then live in the midst of wealth and worldliness, surely they will in no way affect you.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • Live
  • True
  • Knowledge

• I've got pretty good knowledge about pass rushing. But I know I have a lot to work on.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • Good
  • Work
  • Pretty

• Now, occultism is not like mystic faculty, and it very seldom works in harmony either with business aptitude in the things of ordinary life or with a knowledge of the canons of evidence in its own sphere.

  

  A. E. Waite
  • Life
  • Business
  • Knowledge

• I think it's difficult for young people to acknowledge being smart, to knowledge being a reader. I see kids who are embarrassed to read books. They're embarrassed to have people see them doing it.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • People
  • Kids
  • Knowledge

• The more knowledge you have, the greater will be your fear of Allah.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • Fear
  • Knowledge
  • Allah

• While our amplified knowledge of genetics - and the increasing precision of the field - does make it tempting to take on celebrity cases, retro-genetics can't always provide clear answers.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Knowledge
  • Always
  • Celebrity

• The knowledge from an enlightened person breaks on the hard rocks of ignorance.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • Knowledge
  • Ignorance
  • Rocks

• Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Knowledge
  • Wisdom
  • Become

• It is that of increasing knowledge of empirical fact, intimately combined with changing interpretations of this body of fact - hence changing general statements about it - and, not least, a changing a structure of the theoretical system.

  

  Talcott Parsons
  • Knowledge
  • Body
  • Changing

• As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the greatest possible ease.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Knowledge
  • Desire
  • Greatest

• Breaking into a system or exposing its weaknesses is a good thing because truth and knowledge must win out.

  

  Dan Farmer
  • Good
  • Truth
  • Knowledge

• 'For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge' took a year to record; that's why the playing on it might sound somewhat labored. 'Balance,' on the other hand, was written and recorded in only four months, so the whole process was quicker and more immediate.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Why
  • Knowledge
  • Hand

• To be able to read and write, therefore, is to learn to profit by and take part in the greatest of human achievements - that which makes all other achievements possible -namely, the pooling of our experiences in great cooperative stores of knowledge, available

  

  S. I. Hayakawa
  • Great
  • Knowledge

• Praised be the fathomless universeFor life and joy and for objects and knowledge curious;And for love, sweet love-But praise! O praise and praiseFor the sure-enwinding arms of cool-enfolding Death.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Life
  • Death
  • Knowledge

• The most important, the most fundamental and the deepest investigations are those that affect human life and activities most profoundly. Only those scientists who have laboured, not with the aim of producing this or that, but with the sole desire to advance knowledge ultimately prove to be the greatest benefactors of humanity.

  

  C. V. Raman
  • Life
  • Important
  • Knowledge

• Reality is not exhausted by knowledge. Inaccessible to research are the ultimate facts. All scientific conclusions are based on axioms, all reasoning depends ultimately upon faith. Faith is virgin thinking, preceding all transcendent knowledge. To believe is to abide at the extremities of spirit.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • Believe
  • Thinking
  • Reality

• Pure knowledge is the ultimate emancipator. It equalizes people and sovereign states, erodes the archaic barriers of superstition and promises to lift the trajectory of cultural evolution. But I do not believe that it can change the ground rules of human behavior or alter the main course of history's predictable trajectory.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • People
  • Believe
  • History

• Errors of knowledge are not breaches of morality; no proper moral code can demand infallibility or omniscience.

  

  Ayn Rand
  • Knowledge
  • Moral

• Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing.

  

  Jimmy Wales
  • World
  • Free
  • Knowledge

• I like working on stage because there's something very immediate about it, that interaction with an audience where you immediately hear their reaction, or feel them, whether they're with you.

  

  Saffron Burrows
  • Feel
  • Audience
  • Stage

• If you look only as Genesis as an allegory, you have a major problem, because if it's an allegory, then tell me who our ancestor was? If Abraham was real, then from Abraham if Adam isn't real, if it's just an allegory, it's just a story, then what's the real Adam who really fell in a garden and really sinned? Where did we come from?

  

  Ken Ham
  • Real
  • Garden

• Maia recognized a look of true religion in the other woman’s eyes. A version and interpretation that conveniently justified what had already been decided.

  

  David Brin
  • True
  • Eyes

• I see a face of love, Fair as sweet music when my heart was strong: Yea - art thou come again to me, great Song?' The face bent over him like silver night In long-remembered summers; that calm light Of days which shine in firmaments of thought, That past unchangeable, from change still wrought.

  

  George Eliot
  • Great
  • Music
  • Long

• Knowledge is always a good thing, even when it makes us unhappy

  

  Brian Morton
  • Knowledge