#knowledge

Imparting knowledge is only lighting other men's candles at our lamp without depriving ourselves of any flame. ↗

— Jane Porter

#candles #depriving #flame #imparting #knowledge

If you can't even acknowledge that you have to fix Social Security, that's not a very good starting point. ↗

— Rob Portman

#even #fix #good #point #security

The library is seen as a force for self improvement and the pursuit of knowledge. I fear that in many cases this is no longer true, if it ever was. ↗

— John Redwood

#ever #fear #force #i #improvement

The channels of intuitive knowledge are opened according to the intensity of individual need. ↗

— Jane Roberts

#channels #individual #intensity #intuitive #knowledge

When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him. ↗

— Bayard Rustin

#act #being #confers #dignity #him

And indeed this theme has been at the centre of all my research since 1943, both because of its intrinsic fascination and my conviction that a knowledge of sequences could contribute much to our understanding of living matter. ↗

— Frederick Sanger

#been #both #centre #contribute #conviction

I don't fit into any stereotypes. And I like myself that way. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#individuality #inspirational #inspirational-attitude #inspirational-quotes #self-awareness

If a little knowledge was a dangerous thing, a lot was lethal. ↗

— Tom Sharpe

#dangerous thing #knowledge #lethal #little #lot

Quality is timeless: It will clearly define itself. And so I make reference to and acknowledge things that I feel have been dismissed, trying to restate those musical and cultural elements clearly and vehemently. ↗

— Dwight Yoakam

#been #clearly #cultural #define #dismissed

Orma moved a pile of books off a stool for me but seated himself directly on another stack. This habit of his never ceased to amuse me. Dragons no longer hoarded gold; Comonot's reforms had outlawed it. For Orma and his generation, knowledge was treasure. As dragons through the ages had done, he gathered it and then he sat on it. ↗

— Rachel Hartman

#dragons #knowledge #age