Quotes About Meaning

Knowing the plumbing of the universe, intricate and awe-inspiring though that plumbing might be, is a far cry from discovering its purpose.

Literature incarnates its meanings as concretely as possible. The knowledge that literature gives of a subject is the kind of knowledge that is obtained by (vicariously) living through an experience.

Interpretations of interpretations interpreted.

No knowledge is useless, with the exception of heraldry.

For whatever deserves to exist deserves also to be known, for knowledge is the image of existence, and things mean and splendid exist alike.

The life which is unexamined is not worth living.

We must have the self-knowledge of our destiny and the purpose of our birth on earth

Are you one of those people who uses words more for the sound than for the sense of them?

Focus your attention on the quality of your words, and not the quantity, because few sensible talks attracts millions of listeners more than a thousand gibberish.

The purpose of life is the lesson.

Every act intends some good.

We're here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason is to throw little torches out to lead people through the dark.

The job of leadership today is not just to make money, it's to make meaning.

The self-discovery of your inherent leadership potential and an understanding of who you are and what you are meant to be are the keys to fulfilling your purpose from existence as a leader.

Those of us who preach religion: Preach the meaning of "ritual," and stop burying the people and enslaving the people by religious rituals, and then showing them a hypocritical example in leadership!

What is your message ? And who will you be telling ?

Knowing "why" (an idea) is more important than learning "what" (the fact).

Thought is more important than art....To revere art and have no understanding of the process that forces it into existence, is finally not even to understand what art is.

No man suffers injustice without learning, vaguely but surely, what justice is.

There is a profound difference between information and meaning.

A good writer gets better only by learning to cut, to remove the ornamental, the descriptive, the narrative, and especially the deeply felt and meaningful. What remains? The story remains.

Experience by itself teaches nothing... Without theory, experience has no meaning. Without theory, one has no questions to ask. Hence, without theory, there is no learning.

More important than the quest for certainty is the quest for clarity.

Education that consists in learning things and not the meaning of them is feeding upon the husks and not the corn