Even the pluckiest among us has but seldom the courage of what he really knows.
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Even the pluckiest among us has but seldom the courage of what he really knows.
For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.
There are many persons ready to do what is right because in their hearts they know it is right. But they hesitate, waiting for the other fellow to make the make the first move - and he, in turn, waits for you.
A good general not only sees the way to victory; he also knows when victory is impossible.
You are terrifying, and strange, and beautiful. Something not everyone knows how to love.
Beauty? To me it is a word without sense because I do not know where its meaning comes from nor where it leads to.
I like a person who knows his own mind and sticks to it; who sees at once what, in given circumstances, is to be done, and does it.
Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it.
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't. It's knowing where to go to find out what you need to know, and it's knowing how to use the information once you get it.
Education should turn out the pupil with something he knows well and something he can do well.
We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run down.
We call ours a utilitarian age, and we do not know the uses of any single thing. We have forgotten that water can cleanse, that fire can purify, and that the Earth is mother to us all.
Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose_x000D_ _x000D_ he knows not, though he sometimes thinks he senses it._x000D_ _x000D_ But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life_x000D_ _x000D_ that one exists for other people.
An integral being knows without going,_x000D_ _x000D_ sees without looking, and accomplishes without doing.
I think what's important for kids to know is that your decisions here on earth matter, your behavior matters and how you treat other people matters.
A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
We do NOT know the past in chronological sequence. It may be convenient to lay it out anesthetized on the table with dates pasted on here and there, but what we know we know by ripples and spirals eddying out from us and from our own time.
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows that every day is Doomsday.
God is thy law, thou mine: to know no more Is woman's happiest knowledge and her praise. With thee conversing I forget all time.
The slowness of time, for a man who knows nothing will happen, is brutal.
Look at the sparrows; they do not know what they will do in the next moment. Let us literally live from moment to moment.
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