#knowledge

There is no stopping the world's tendency to throw off imposed restraints, the religious authority that is based on the ignorance of the many, the political authority that is based on the knowledge of the few. ↗

— Van Wyck Brooks

#based #few #ignorance #imposed #knowledge

Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too. ↗

— Frederick Buechner

#capacity #compassion #else #fatal #feeling

I think anyone about to leave one job not surprisingly would use their knowledge, their experience, their skills drawn from their previous positions to try and earn a living in the future. That's what happens in all interviews. ↗

— Geoff Hoon

#anyone #drawn #earn #experience #future

You should not ask questions without knowledge. ↗

— W. Edwards Deming

#knowledge #questions #should #without #you

I came literally to the table with a wealth of knowledge by simply understanding how food should taste. ↗

— Rocco DiSpirito

#food #how #i #i came #knowledge

Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the literature of the subject, and, above all, an imagination which worked with great power upon the facts of his own experience. ↗

— Carl Clinton Van Doren

#actual #brought #curious #experience #facts

In 20 or 30 years, you'll be able to hold in your hand as much computing knowledge as exists now in the whole city, or even the whole world. ↗

— Douglas Engelbart

#city #computing #even #exists #hand

If she could no longer be called beautiful, she possessed something better-a knowledge of beauty; it’s inflated value, it’s inevitable loss. ↗

— Hilary Thayer Hamann

#knowledge #wisdom #beauty

The barrier during self-improvement is not so much that we hate learning, rather we hate being taught. To learn entails that the knowledge was achieved on one's own accord - it feels great - but to be taught often leaves a feeling of inferiority. Thus it takes a bit of determination and a lot of humility in order for one to fully develop. ↗

— Criss Jami

#barrier #determination #development #feelings #help

We live in a culture that doesn't acknowledge or validate human intuition and doesn't encourage us to rely on our intuitive wisdom. ↗

— Shakti Gawain

#culture #encourage #human #intuition #intuitive