Pastoral Resources

People live longer today than they ever have. They live happier lives, have more knowledge, more information. All this is the result of communications technology. How is any of that bad?

I was one of the first generations to watch television. TV exposes people to news, to information, to knowledge, to entertainment. How is it bad?

Darrell is really good in the studio. I mean, he has a real working knowledge of how the process works, and what sounds good coming back over tape, and how the stuff works together.

Experience alone can give a final answer. The knowledge gained in a few years by a commission of the kind suggested would be worth more than volumes of mere assertions and contradictions.

As a physician, I understand how important it is to collect data on people so we can understand what's happening with them. I will be in the position to help enable that knowledge.

But, in the name of the experimental method and out of our poor knowledge, are we really entitled to claim that everything happens by chance, to the exclusion of all other possibilities?

Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; but knowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, unlimited in space and indefinite in duration.

In today's knowledge-based economy, what you earn depends on what you learn. Jobs in the information technology sector, for example, pay 85 percent more than the private sector average.

Grace is given of god, but knowledge is bought in the market.

For the progress of scientific knowledge will lead to a constant increase of expenditure.

Men are limited by the knowledge of their minds, the worth of their characters and the principles upon which they are building their lives.

Knowledge of God's Word is a bulwark against deception, temptation, accusation, even persecution.

Take the decision in early March to arrest Muqtada al-Sadr. It was made apparently without knowledge or understanding of the nature of his movement or how widespread it is.

Advice is like snow - the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.

Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.

January brings the snow, makes our feet and fingers glow.

Knowledge is the consequence of time, and multitude of days are fittest to teach wisdom.

You can do anything you think you can. This knowledge is literally the gift of the gods, for through it you can solve every human problem. It should make of you an incurable optimist. It is the open door.

That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.

Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.