Quotes About Absorbing Knowledge

#1. A profound dislike for merely absorbing knowledge and a compulsion to learn by doing are among the most reliable signs of genius.

Sylvia Nasar

#2. We can be anywhere, so long as we are helping others and caring for them. This is probably the one source of stability in our lives that we can truly depend on, and so in the end we are never really out of place.

Stephen G. Post

#3. I was walking around bored one day, and I started filming stuff with my cellphone. There are all these shows where people are trying to do these outrageous stunts, and I thought it would be funny to do all these stunts that aren't outrageous but then act like they are.

Harland Williams

#4. I hope the film will help mothers and fathers to be aware that 15 is a very vulnerable age.

Ellen Muth

#5. If one has the will and persistance, one CAN do things.

Annejet Van Der Zijl

#6. My roses are my jewels; the sun, moon, and stars my clocks; fruit and water my fare.

Lady Hester Stanhope

#7. Your obligation is that of active participation. You should not act as knowledge-absorbing sponges, but as whetstones on which we can all sharpen our wits

Edsger W. Dijkstra

#8. I have from my experience come to the conclusion that Gita has been composed to teach this one truth which I have explained. We can follow truth only in the measure that we shed our attachment to the ego.

Mahatma Gandhi

#9. Trade unions have been an essential force for social change, without which a semblance of a decent and humane society is impossible under capitalism.

Pope Francis

#10. People are still encouraged to marry as if they could count on marriage being for life, and at the same time they are absorbing a knowledge of the great frequency of divorce.

Margaret Mead

#11. The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

Albert Einstein

#12. That's one wonderful thing about country music - it shifts, ebbs, and flows stylistically, unlike pop music.

Steven Curtis Chapman

#13. One of the elements in the film that really fascinated me was not to look at the world in bi-polar terms of us vs them or east vs west, which was a by-product of the Cold War.

Kathryn Bigelow

#14. The more spiritually aware you become the more you will focus on your own self and less on others.

Bryant McGill

#15. Education is not just about going to school and getting a degree. It's about widening your knowledge and absorbing the truth about life.

Shakuntala Devi

#16. Grace is the overflowing favor of God, and you can always count on it being available to draw upon as needed.

Oswald Chambers

#17. For me, Mexploitation seemed like something that should have existed, but didn't.

Robert Rodriguez