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. 775
To-day it appears as though it may well be altogether abolished in the future as it has to some extent been mitigated in the past by the unceasing, and as it now appears, unlimited ascent of man to knowledge, and through knowledge to physical power and dominion over Nature. 653
It is my deliberate opinion that the one essential requisite of human welfare in all ways is scientific knowledge of human nature. 635
No part of the world can be truly understood without a knowledge of its garment of vegetation, for this determines not only the nature of the animal inhabitants but also the occupations of the majority of human beings. 674
Science is knowledge arranged and classified according to truth, facts, and the general laws of nature. 629
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. 1.85K
This is part of the involuntary bargain we make with the world just by being alive. We get to experiences the splendor of nature, the beauty of art, the balm of love and the sheer joy of existence, always with the knowledge that illness, injury, natural disaster, or pure evil can end it in an instant for ourselves or someone we love. 628
Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance. 712
The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism. 1.76K
Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and how much happier is that man who believes his native town to be the world than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow. 627
What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer’s own weaknesses reflected back from others. 684
The nature of motion capture is only going to work for certain films. It’s not going to put any other type of movies out of business. 2.16K
The nature of the global business environment guarantees that no matter how hard we work to create a stable and healthy organisation, our organisation will continue to experience dramatic changes far beyond our control. 704
Listen, if there’s one sure-fire rule that I have learned in this business, it’s that I don’t know anything about human nature. 1.34K
In this business you have to develop a thick skin, but I’m always going to feel everything. It’s my nature. 1.34K
