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We must conclude that education is not what it is said to be by some, who profess to put into a soul knowledge that was not there before - rather as if they could but sight into blind eyes. On the contrary, our argument indicates that this is a capacity which is innate in each man’s soul, and that the faculty by which he learns is like an eye which cannot be turned from darkness to light unless the whole body is turned; in the same way the entire soul must be turned away from this world of change until its eye can bear to look straight at reality, and at the brightest of all realities which we have called the Good.
Argument | Body | Capacity | Change | Darkness | Education | Good | Knowledge | Light | Man | Reality | Soul | World |
To grow and know what one is growing towards - that is the source of all strength and confidence in life.
Confidence | Life | Life | Strength |
For the fear of death is indeed the pretense of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being a pretended knowledge of the unknown; and no one knows whether death, which men in their fear apprehend to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good. Is there not here conceit of knowledge, which is a disgraceful sort of ignorance?
Death | Evil | Fear | Good | Ignorance | Knowledge | Men | Wisdom |
My opinion is that in the world of knowledge the idea of good appears last of all, and is seen only with an effort; and, when seen, is also inferred to be the universal author of all things beautiful and right, parent of light and of the lord of light in this visible world, and the immediate source of reason and truth in the intellectual; and that this is the power upon which he who would act rationally either in public or private life must have his eye fixed.
Effort | Good | Knowledge | Life | Life | Light | Lord | Opinion | Power | Public | Reason | Right | Truth | World | Parent |
Education is not in reality what some people proclaim it to be in their professions. What they aver is that they can put true knowledge into a soul that does not possess it, as if they were inserting vision into blind eyes… But our present argument indicates that the true analogy for this indwelling power in the soul and the instrument whereby each of us apprehends is that of an eye that could not be converted to the light from the darkness except by turning the whole body.
Argument | Body | Darkness | Education | Knowledge | Light | People | Power | Present | Reality | Soul | Vision |
Medicine may be regarded generally as the knowledge of the loves and desires of the body, and how to satisfy them or not; and the best physician is he who is able to separate fair love from foul, or to convert one into the other; and he who knows how to eradicate and how to implant love, whichever is required, and can reconcile the most hostile elements in the constitution and making them loving friends, is a skillful practitioner.
The soil needs the seed, and the seed needs the soil. The one only has meaning with the other. It is the same thing with human beings. When male knowledge joins with female transformation, then the great magical union is created, and its name is Wisdom. Wisdom means both to know and to transform.
R. G. Collingwood, fully Robert George Collingwood
There is no truer and more abiding happiness than the knowledge that one is free to go on doing, day by day, the best work one can do, in the kind one likes best, and that this work is absorbed by a steady market and thus supports one's own life. Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.
Day | Freedom | Knowledge | Life | Life | Man | Wants | Work | Happiness |
Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds.
Experience | Knowledge | Thought | Thought |
Pope John Paul II, born Karol Józef Wojtyła, aka Saint John Paul the Great NULL
Peace is not just the absence of war. It involves mutual respect and confidence between peoples and nations. It involves collaboration and binding agreements. Like a cathedral, peace must be constructed patiently and with unshakable faith.
Absence | Confidence | Faith | Nations | Peace | Respect | War | Respect |
A name made great is a name destroyed. He who does not increase his knowledge decreases it.
Censorship reflects society's lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime.
Confidence | Society |
He that would know hot to be always pleased, glad of success and glad of disappointment should accustom himself to reflect that every event of whatever complexion, increases his knowledge and in consequence his power.
Nothing will supply the want of sunshine to peaches and, to make knowledge valuable you must have the cheerfulness of wisdom. Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished. The joy of the spirit indicates its strength. All healthy things are sweet-tempered. Genius works in sport, and goodness smiles to the last.
Cheerfulness | Genius | Joy | Knowledge | Nothing | Spirit | Strength | Will | Wisdom |
To make knowledge valuable, you must have the cheerfulness of wisdom.
Cheerfulness | Knowledge | Wisdom |
An Indian has his knowledge for use, and it only appears in use. Most white men that we know have theirs for talking purposes.