“It makes no sense at all if people consider the one who lacks knowledge and science as a prosperous person.”

— Ja'far al-Sadiq

Ibn Shu’ba al-Harrani, Tuhaf al-'Uqul, p. 382
Regarding Knowledge & Wisdom, General

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Muslim religious person 702–765

Ali (601–661) cousin and son-in-law of the Islamic prophet Muhammad

Majlisi, Bihārul Anwār, vol. 1, p. 179
Regarding Knowledge & Wisdom, General

“Gaining the sense of immortality or eternal life will make you appear like a god, prophet or saint before those who lack self-knowledge.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

“An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.”

Henry Ford (1863–1947) American industrialist

Remarks from the witness stand, to a court in Mount Clemens, Michigan (July 1919), as quoted in Thesaurus of Epigrams: A New Classified Collection of Witty Remarks, Bon Mots and Toasts (1948) by Edmund Fuller, p. 162

“I would like to be known as a person who is concerned about freedom and equality and justice and prosperity for all people.”

Rosa Parks (1913–2005) African-American civil rights activist

Quoted in "Women of the Hall: Rosa Parks," http://womenshalloffame.org/women.php?action=viewone&id=117 Women's National Hall of Fame (undated); said upon her 77th birthday (1990-02-04)

“The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will. ”

Vince Lombardi (1913–1970) American football player, coach, and executive

“Every person who seeks to practise agriculture with the full success which it admits—and that is the natural aim of every one who engages in it—must possess energy, activity, reflection, perseverance, and a knowledge of all the kindred and accessory sciences.”

Albrecht Thaer (1752–1828) German agronomist and an avid supporter of the humus theory for plant nutrition

Source: The Principles of Agriculture, 1844, Section I: The fundamental principles, p. 8.

“It should not be presumed that these people (the Jews), who are so separated from us by their religion, have any right to make our laws. But why blame the Jews? It is we who lack all feeling for our own identity, all sense of honour.”

Richard Wagner (1813–1883) German composer, conductor

14 November 1878
Cosima Wagner's Diaries (1978)

“It is no crime to be ignorant of economics, which is, after all, a specialized discipline and one that most people consider to be a 'dismal science.”

Murray N. Rothbard (1926–1995) American economist of the Austrian School, libertarian political theorist, and historian

But it is totally irresponsible to have a loud and vociferous opinion on economic subjects while remaining in this state of ignorance.
The Death Wish of the Anarcho-Communists (1970) http://www.lewrockwell.com/rothbard/rothbard122.html.

“Feelings aren't sensible. Sometimes you fall in love with people who don't make sense. And the ones who do make sense turn out to be the wrong ones.”

Danielle Steel book Legacy

Source: Legacy

“Science is… in the broadest sense of organized, objective knowledge.”

Richard Hartshorne (1899–1992) American Geographer

Source: The Nature of Geography (1939), p. 139

“It makes no sense at all if people consider the one who lacks knowledge and science as a prosperous person.”

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