Gautama Buddha Quotes

One who does not rouse themself when it is time to rise, who, though capable, is full of sloth, whose will and thought are weak, that lazy and idle person will never find their way to true knowledge.

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• When knowledge is limited - it leads to folly... When knowledge exceeds a certain limit, it leads to exploitation.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • Knowledge
  • Limit
  • Limited

• 'The Driver' wasn't commercially successful at the time, but when I was a teenager, I had no knowledge of that.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Time
  • Knowledge
  • Successful

• Give people knowledge and they really eat it up and they appreciate it a lot and the more that knowledge is made available to people, the more they will utilize it and let it be a part of them.

  

  La Monte Young
  • People
  • Up
  • Knowledge

• There's a lot of information that has been in peoples' heads and hasn't gotten onto the Internet. Even as the Web has gotten really big, there's just been this gap. So we made Quora as a general place for people to share knowledge of all kinds.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
  • People
  • Knowledge
  • Internet

• Men may rise on stepping stones of their dead selves to higher things.

  

  Zane Grey
  • Men
  • May
  • Dead

• 'Orientalism' has successfully built my critical awareness to question and see the big picture of knowledge, perspective or idea from a Western point of view and always see things from different perspective.

  

  Okky Madasari
  • Different
  • Knowledge
  • Question

• 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.

  

  Daniel Alarcon
  • Great
  • Thinking
  • Country

• The enterprise of knowledge is consistent surely with science; it should be with religion, and it is essential for the welfare of the human species.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Science
  • 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

• 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

• Almost every golden age of geo-cultural domains has been characterised by good governance, exchanges, borrowing, innovation and the adaptation of earlier contributions to forms of knowledge, and rationalism.

  

  Nayef Al-Rodhan
  • Good
  • Age
  • Knowledge

• It is the duty of the followers of Islam to spread through the civilised world, a knowledge of what Islam means - its spirit and message.

  

  Annie Besant
  • World
  • Knowledge

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

  

  Ayn Rand
  • Knowledge
  • Moral

• The first thing in faith is knowledge. What we know we must also agree unto. What we agree unto we must rest upon alone for salvation. It will not save me to know that Christ is a Saviour; but it will save me to trust Him to be my Saviour.

  

  Charles Spurgeon
  • Faith
  • Knowledge
  • Alone

• It is not by prayer and humility that you cause things to go as you wish, but by acquiring a knowledge of natural laws.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Knowledge
  • Wish
  • Prayer

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

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • Faith
  • Knowledge
  • Eyes

• There is no case where ignorance should be preferred to knowledge - especially if the knowledge is terrible.

  

  Edward Teller
  • Knowledge
  • Ignorance

• Knowledge of the fact differs from knowledge of the reason for the fact.

  

  Aristotle
  • Knowledge
  • Reason
  • Fact

• And all the time she felt the reflection of his hopelessness in her. She couldn't quite, quite love in hoplessness. And he, being hopeless, couldn't ever love at all.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Time
  • She
  • Reflection

• I'm in show business... I want to hang out with Janet Jackson, not Jesse Jackson.

  

  Chris Rock
  • Business

• Remember, to them it is us who are the enemy.

  

  N. F. Simpson
  • Remember
  • Enemy
  • Liberty

• Forgetting isn't enough. You can paddle away from the memories and think they are gone. But they will keep floating back, again and again and agian. They circle you, like sharks. Until, unless, something, someone? Can do more than just cover the wound.

  

  Sara Zarr
  • Thinking
  • Fear
  • Memories

• I think its man's nature to go to war and fight.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • War
  • Nature
  • Man

• One who does not rouse themself when it is time to rise, who, though capable, is full of sloth, whose will and thought are weak, that lazy and idle person will never find their way to true knowledge.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Knowledge
  • Weak
  • Rise