Sure Happy It’s Thursday! Good morning, Digital Neighbors! How about a few quotes for your morning pondering? I was thumbing through the Forbes Book of Quotations: 10,000 Thoughts on the Business of Life and landed on the section about knowledge. Here’s a handful of quotes to whet your whistle on the value of knowledge. While knowledge is not wisdom—which comes from reflection, introspection, and for many of us, faith (a gift of God born of prayer)—knowledge is born of our study and understanding of reality.
We get more out of life by paying attention. Knowledge turns on the light of our comprehension, and what was once hidden in plain sight before us is now acknowledged in various degrees and ways. The magical world of reading is the springboard to untold knowledge. A good friend of mine is an avid reader; I admire his ability to devour books. While I tend to be more of an audiobook person these days, reading is an amazing gift to possess. We will never face boredom (except at meetings!) if we keep our curiosity alive and ask the questions that awaken a desire for knowledge and understanding. Well, before you have too much to read, random passerby, off to the quotes! Have a great Thursday!
“I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.” — Franklin P. Adams
“To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of eternal things; to knowledge, the rational knowledge of temporal things.” — St. Augustine
“People who think they know it all are especially annoying to those of us who do.” — Anonymous
“I’ve learned one thing—people who know the least anyways seem to know it the loudest.” — Andy Capp (often attributed via Al Capp, the cartoonist)
“A greater poverty than that caused by lack of money is the poverty of unawareness. Men and women go about the world unaware of the beauty, the goodness, the glories in it. Their souls are poor. It is better to have a poor pocketbook than to suffer from a poor soul.” — Thomas Dreier
Ted Goodman, Forbes Book of Quotations: 10,000 Thoughts on the Business of Life.
Today marks the three hundred and thirtieth birthday of the Frenchman François-Marie Arouet, better known by his nom de plume, Voltaire (1694-1778).
Born into a bourgeois family during the reign of Louis XIV, the “Sun King” (r. 1643-1715), Voltaire suffered tragedy at a young age when his mother died. Never close with his father or brother, Voltaire exhibited a rebellious attitude toward authority from his youth. His brilliant mind was fostered in the care of the Society of Jesus, who introduced him to the joys of literature and theater. Despite his later criticisms against the Church, Voltaire, throughout his life, fondly recalled his dedicated Jesuit teachers.
Although he spent time as a civil servant in the French embassy to the Hague, Voltaire’s main love was writing—an endeavor where he excelled in various genres, including poetry, which led to his appointment as the royal court poet for King Louis XV. Widely recognized as one of the greatest French writers, and even hyperbolically referred to by ...
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