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Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?


T.S. Eliot

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T. S. ELIOT Where is wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
T.S. ELIOT Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information.
TS (THOMAS STEARNS) ELIOT Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in informatio...
T. S. ELIOT Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?
T. S. ELIOT Big data will have a great impact on human intelligence and wisdom. Wisdom is often lost in knowledg...
WOHI PURANA We have a right to life, not on it.
DANIEL MELGAçO The things i know now, i never knew then. I wish i knew.
SOTONYE ANGA We have to ask, 'where are the crossovers in knowledge'.
GARRY HENLEY We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sens...
HUBERT HUMPHREY When we don't know where life is taking us, we are never lost.
PAULO COELHO So, tomorrow, I'm leaving. And I'm not going to let that happen again with anyone else. I'm going to...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY It was one of those situations where if we would have played Calgary (who they lost to in the Cup) n...
BOB CAMERON Not till we are lost, in other words not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves,...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU We kind of went through that stretch where we lost some leads. We went through stretches where we lo...
KYLE KORVER The river of knowledge has no depth.
CHINONYE J. CHIDOLUE We live in a world where many of us have a lot of friends on Facebook but yet we have lost human con...
ROBIN S. SHARMA we
sat there
smoking
cigarettes
at
5
in the morning.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI The ball is entirely in his court. We really have no knowledge of where he is with the project, othe...
DAN DEVINE Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an...
LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD The market is just gripped with anxiety about Iran. It's also concerned about Nigeria, where we actu...
ANDREW LEBOW Some guys spend days looking for something they lost. I never seem to have anything that if I lost i...
J.D. SALINGER We lost wickets in pairs too often and, when bowling, we had a couple of loose spells and that's whe...
FRASER WATTS The biggest thing is we were in so many close games. We lost 9 or 10 games where we were in the game...
BRIAN MILLS We lost three seniors and we'll miss them. We have new guys who can step in and take over where the ...
BRIAN HOFF Enclosed within the tyranny of our minds and there is where we are lost.
ROBERT DODSON We never even saw the damsel in distress. ... We would have stopped because we are superheroes. As a...
KEVIN CROSS To our members, those things have lost their attraction. There is nothing more heavenly than our ser...
FATHER SERAPHIM CARDOZA Defensively, we did exactly what we wanted to do. On the offensive end is where we lost it.
JOSH BJERKE It's the imperfections that make things beautiful
JENNY HAN That's where we lost the game, on the defensive end.
ROYCE WALTMAN It is so fascinating that when after a hard stressful day we calm our mind and release the stress fr...
GARY F EVANS... Knowledge is soon changed, then lost in the mist, an echo half-heard.
GENE WOLFE In those communities it's mostly individual customers who have lost power where trees have fallen on...
DAN SHARP Nations have lost their old omnipotence; the patriotic tiedoes not hold. Nations are getting obsol...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upo...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on ...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upo...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on ...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Is there nothing we won't outsource, China is the world's largest producer of American flags how man...
KENNETH WATERS JR Many times we have people walking here and they're not sure where go, so we have an officer here to ...
AMY HALL What have we lost? Well, we've lost a scientist who is really concerned about the quality of life fo...
BILL STEELE You’re not the only one,” he says through gritted teeth. “My twelve-year-old sister died in my...
RICK YANCEY Man is lost and is wandering in a jungle where real values have no meaning. Real values can have mea...
SAI BABA The knowledge that we consider knowledge proves itself in action. What we now mean by knowledge is i...
PETER F. DRUCKER Is there something we have forgotten? Some precious thing we have lost, wandering in strange lands?
ARNA BONTEMPS Through zeal knowledge is gotten, through lack of zeal knowledge is lost.
BUDDHA Through zeal knowledge is gotten, through lack of zeal knowledge is lost.
BUDDHA Our record should have been flip-flopped. There was an inning in four or five games where we lost ga...
BRET MEULI The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have.
CRAIG GROESCHEL We have lost the art of living; and in the most important science of all, the science of daily life,...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE The middle path makes me wary. . . . But in the middle of my life, I am coming to see the middle pat...
TERRY TEMPEST WILLIAMS There was one point in every game where we weren't mentally tough and lost focus.
JOSH FISHER Everyone is the Umbrella Man and he is everyone. Every cough, sneeze, smile and wave means both ever...
CRAIG CLEVENGER I felt I lost my grip in the last three turns. That's where I lost the speed.
BODE MILLER The past is important for all the information and wisdom it holds. But you can get lost in it. You'v...
LAUREN KATE Being lost without grasping the rather obvious fact that we are lost is by far the best guarantee we...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH Now we have one chance in some case, as in this body but in other body we will have + one because we...
DEYTH BANGER I'm quite happy with where we are considering we lost six seniors.
LARRY ANDERSON They just beat us down the stretch. In the fourth quarter is where the game is won or lost. I though...
RAY ALLEN We fall back into the past, we jump ahead into the future, and in this we lose our entire lives.
THICH NHAT HANH If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th...
GARY F EVANS... If you love someone you must set them free like the wind and give them the respect they deserve.If y...
GARY F EVANS... If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now ...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU We have to continually grow in the knowledge of Christ, in order to avoid every limitation of our hu...
SUNDAY ADELAJA There is no doubt that if we have lost that much money in retirement accounts, we lost that much mon...
TOM DASCHLE Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medic...
SAMUEL SMILES Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medic...
SAMUEL SMILES It hurts real bad. The worst part is we shouldn't have lost. We had them. They were ripe. The hardes...
DEREK RAIVIO Knowledge is lost without putting it into practice; a man is lost due to ignorance; an army is lost ...
CHANAKYA I have not lost [Allah's] hope in us to show compassion where none exists and to extend mercy in the...
MUHAMMAD ALI There are three parts to learning: information, knowledge and wisdom, A mere accumulation of informa...
RACHEL CAINE Be lost. Give up. Give In. in the end It would be better to surrender before you begin. be lost. Be ...
VICTORIA SCHWAB We are getting into the dangerous portion of the mission. The cruise has not been easy, but now we a...
JAMES GRAF In Indian diversity there is still the memory of very refined expressions which we have lost
FRANCESCO CLEMENTE Since German reunification in 1990, historians and researchers have been free to work in the East, w...
STEPHEN KINZER When I go out to direct a film, every day we prepare too much, we think too much. Knowledge becomes ...
SHEKHAR KAPUR The more older we get, less question we ask. We have lost contacts, we have lost and the curiosity o...
DEYTH BANGER We certainly havent lost any of the faith we have in the Carnival.
ANDREW FOX We are unknown to ourselves, we men of knowledge - and with good reason. We have never sought oursel...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE We've got exactly what we need to fulfill our destiny!
ABHISHEK KUMAR To reclaim your lost years, find professionals in your field and maximize their wisdom, knowledge an...
SUNDAY ADELAJA A common mistake we make is that we look for God in places where we ourselves wish to find him, yet ...
CRISS JAMI What matters is we're playing. We'll play in the parking lot at Popeye's. I guarantee you I'll play ...
CHRIS SCELFO In around 80 percent of cases (in Asia) so far there is obvious contact with sick birds. That means ...
GEORG PETERSEN Kids have a weird honesty, especially in their reaction to things where a lot of older people who ha...
BECK BENNETT We asked the city to put in sidewalks near the schools, and to my knowledge that is where we suggest...
DEE PRICE The first quarter is where we pretty much lost the game. After that we played an even game with them...
TONY TAYLOR Whatever we focus on is bound to expand. Where we see the negative, we call forth more negative. And...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON I have always wished the present to resemble memory: because the present can be flat at times, and b...
LYDIA MILLET We have lost contact with reality, the simplicity of life.
PAULO COELHO We have no information where the plane fell. The search for it is continuing,
KAMERAN AHMAD She was intimidating and all I could do was sit back on the couch as she paced back and forth, slowl...
IN THE MAKING We are trying to regain any and all knowledge that was lost.
ARLENE WARD Today A woman is one who tries to bring a man down. A man is one who has to keep that woman in check...
APURVA GAGLANI Could it be that we lost something because had we not lost it, we would have lost ourselves?
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH It would be nice to travel if you knew where you were going and where you would live at the end or d...
JANET FRAME It would be nice to travel if you knew where you were going and where you would live at the end or d...
JANET FRAME We are working on winning the one-on-one battles. We lost several games last year, where if we just ...
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If the unheard, unspoken
Word is unsp...
T.S. ELIOT For he will do
As he do do
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T.S. ELIOT Whatever you do, don't whimper, but take the consequences.
T.S. ELIOT No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence.
T.S. ELIOT Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it.
T.S. ELIOT I said to my soul be still, and wait without hope; for hope would be hope of the wrong thing; wait w...
T.S. ELIOT When a Cat adopts you there is nothing to be done about it except put up with it until the wind chan...
T.S. ELIOT The highest form of treason: to do the right thing for the wrong reason. Murder in the Cathedral
T.S. ELIOT Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.
T.S. ELIOT Webster was much possessed by death / And saw the skull beneath the skin.
T.S. ELIOT I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is fa...
T.S. ELIOT The Nobel is a ticket to one's own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it.
T.S. ELIOT There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
T.S. ELIOT When one wanted one's interests looking after whatever the cost, it was not so well for a lawyer to ...
T.S. ELIOT For I have known them all already, known them all—
Have known the evenings, mornings, afterno...
T.S. ELIOT Do I dare Disturb the universe?
T.S. ELIOT We are the hollow men
We are the stuffed men
Leaning together
Headpiece filled with s...
T.S. ELIOT Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach?
T.S. ELIOT There is shadow under this red rock // (Come in under the shadow of this red rock) // And I will sho...
T.S. ELIOT Someone said, 'The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did.' Prec...
T.S. ELIOT We understand the ordinary business of living,
We know how to work the machine
T.S. ELIOT Oxford is very pretty, but I don't like to be dead.
T.S. ELIOT It is certain that a book is not harmless merely because no one is consciously offended by it.
T.S. ELIOT We die to each other daily. What we know of other people is only our memory of the moments during wh...
T.S. ELIOT