Pastoral Resources

We need to think more about the nature of rhetoric in anthropology. There isn't a body of knowledge and thought to fall back on in this regard.

This crisis exposed very significant problems in the financial systems of the United States and some other major economies. Innovation got too far out in front of the knowledge of risk.

The road passed through a curtain of pine forest and came out on a flat, rolling snow field. In this field the sprawled or bunched bodies of Germans lay thick, like some dark shapeless vegetable.

Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in your seeds.

Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.

No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.

Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.

Everyone wants a hand in the outcome, a piece of the knowledge.

I have the same sense of the power and virtue of knowledge that some people get from a religious background.

The ability to think straight, some knowledge of the past, some vision of the future, some skill to do useful service, some urge to fit that service into the well-being of the community - these are the most vital things education must try to produce.

It is harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge.

You can acquire a lot of knowledge without ever going to school.

We don't focus as much in schools on educational knowledge which requires thinking and application, as we do on acquiring facts.

As long as acquiring knowledge is the educational goal of schools, educational opportunities will be limited, as they are now, to affluent families.

I think it is totally wrong and terribly harmful if education is defined as acquiring knowledge.