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Einstein:Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Wilhelm Reich:I know that what you call 'God' really exists, but not in the form you think; God is primal cosmic energy, the love in your body, your integrity, and your perception of the nature in you and outside of you.
Will Durant:Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
Patrick Hearn:No man can possibly know what life means, what the world means, until he has a child and loves it. And then the whole universe changes and nothing will ever again seem exactly as it seemed before.
Gauguin:Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
Gustave Courbet:Fine art is knowledge made visible.
Immanuel Kant:Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
Edouard Manet:It is not enough to know your craft - you have to have feeling. Science is all very well, but for us imagination is worth far more.
Yukio Mishima:Possessing by letting go of things was a secret of ownership unknown to youth.
Schweitzer:One thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
Leopold Senghor:Now, try to put on a black skin for five minutes. I know you find this hard to do, but there is no other way to get the living feel of our situation.
Eino Leino:The one who has knowledge, he won’t condemn.
Pascal:The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
Gwendoline Konie:Then you will know,
you need me as I need you,
together we complete the cycle of our existence.
Krishnamurti:One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end.
Per Lagerkvist:Bitter, too, to be forced to acknowledge in one's heart how little love has to do with kindness.
Compay Segundo:have learned from those who know how to preserve the tradition of music. I play music the way it used to be played.
Hesiod:The fool knows after he has suffered.
Socrates:There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.
Durant Will:Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
Schopenhauer:A man can do what he wants, but not know what he wants.
Rene Crevel:Broken lines do not know what they want. With their caprices they cut time up, abuse routes, slash the joyous flowers and split the peaceful fruits with their corners.
Henri Michaux:He who doesn't know anger doesn't know anything. He doesn't know the immediate.
Bertrand Russell:The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
Patrick Hearn:“We owe more to our illusions than to our knowledge”
Tennyson:Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
Montaigne:The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
Richelieu:To know how to dissimulate is the knowledge of kings.
Heinrich Heine:Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them.
Yukio Mishima:What transforms this world is — knowledge. Do you see what I mean? Nothing else can change anything in this world.
Edna Milley:“My heart is warm with the friends I make,
And better friends I'll not be knowing,
Yet there isn't a train I wouldn't take,
No matter where it's going.
Kornaros:ime's Wheel that knows the height and depth of All,
Schweitzer:Eventually all things fall into place. Until then, laugh at the confusion, live for the moments, and know everythin happens for a reason.
Hemingway:Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
John Locke:The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
Stanislaw Lem:“We have no need of other worlds. We need mirrors. We don't know what to do with other worlds. A single world, our own, suffices us; but we can't accept it for what it is.
Dante:Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.
Jean Piaget:What we see changes what we know. What we know changes what we see.
Cecilia Meireles:The song is everything.
The rhythmic wing has eternal blood,
And I know that one day I shall be dumb:
— Nothing more.
Ahmed Shawqiν:Do you know of someone nobler than.. he who nurtures minds and hearts
Allen Ginsberg:I know too much and not enough.
Pericles:Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.
Jim Morrison:There are things known and things unknown and in between are the doors.
Nina Simone:There's no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were.
Gabriel Marquez: Become a better person and be sure to know who you are,
before meeting someone new and hoping that person knows who you are.
Wilhelm Reich:Love, work, and knowledge are the wellsprings of our lives, they should also govern it.
Thomas Eliot:We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time
Lawrence:Nobody knows you.
You don't know yourself.
And I, who am half in love with you,
What am I in love with?
My own imaginings?
A. Modigliani:You are not alive unless you know you are living.
Robert Scott:The attitude of the men is equally worthy of admiration...there is a rush to be first when work is to be done, and the same desire to sacrifice selfish consideration to the success of the expedition...Fortune would be in a hard mood indeed if it allowed such a combination of knowledge, experience, ability, and enthusiasm to achieve nothing.
Anton Chekhov:Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
Rimbaud:Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.
Samuel Johnson:I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.”
Beethoven:Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.
Hector Berlioz:Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.
Eisenstein:The profession of film director can and should be such a high and precious one; that no man aspiring to it can disregard any knowledge that will make him a better film director or human being.”
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Jose Martí:Happiness exists on earth, and it is won through prudent exercise of reason, knowledge of the harmony of the universe, and constant practice of generosity.
Heinrich Heine:The more i get to know people, the more i like dogs.
Aziz Nesin:
I know you'll break off
I can't hold your hair
But leave your smell with me
Skinner:We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is a trivial achievement. Being inclined to go on reading is a great achievement.
Alfred Musset:I don't know where my road is going, but I know that I walk better when I hold your hand.
Fidel Castro:Quality of life lies in knowledge, in culture. Values are what constitute true quality of life, the supreme quality of life, even above food, shelter and clothing.
Apollinaire:I love men, not for what unites them, but for what divides them, and I want to know most of all what gnaws at their hearts
John Locke:No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
Feuerbach:As we expand our knowledge of good books, we shrink the circle of men whose company we appreciate.
Doris Lessing:What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.
Spinoza:I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of the peace.
Fyodor Tyutchev:All the wonders you seek are within yourself. We should seek to discover our own special light. Know how to live within yourself;
Juan Jimenez:To live is nothing more than to come here to die, to be what we were before being born, but with apprenticeship, experience, knowledge of cause, and perhaps with will.
Na Hye-sok:Human beings don't exist for food and clothes alone, you know. We become human beings only when we get educated and informed
Pythagoras:As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other.
Socrates:I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing
Aristophanes:Let each man exercise the art he knows.
John Lennon:Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right. We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first - rock and roll or Christianity.
Pittacus:Know the right moment.
Isaac Asimov:The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.
Wilhelm Reich:You differ from a great man in only one respect: the great man was once a very little man, but he developed one important quality: he recognized the smallness and narrowness of his thoughts and actions. Under the pressure of some task that meant a great deal to him, he learned to see how his smallness, his pettiness endangered his happiness. In other words, a great man knows when and in what way he is a little man
Thomas Eliot:We die to each other daily. What we know of other people is only our memory of the moments during which we knew them. And they have changed since then. To pretend that they and we are the same is a useful and convenient social convention which must sometimes be broken. We must also remember that at every meeting we are meeting a stranger.
Antonio Porchia:I know what I have given you...
I do not know what you have received.
A. Modigliani:When I know your soul, I will paint your eyes.
Khalil Gibran:The timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness. And knows that yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.
Gauguin:We never really know what stupidity is until we have experimented on ourselves.
Plotinus:“The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.”
Saadi:Whoever acquires knowledge but does not practice it is as one who ploughs but does not sow.
Isaac Newton:“I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.”
Samuel Johnson:Men know that women are an overmatch for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or the most ignorant. If they did not think so, they never could be afraid of women knowing as much as themselves.”
Tesla:Instinct is something which transcends knowledge.
Carl Rogers:When a person realizes he has been deeply heard, his eyes moisten. I think in some real sense he is weeping for joy. It is as though he were saying, "Thank God, somebody heard me. Someone knows what it's like to be me.
Amos Oz:Very often, fanaticism begins at home. It begins inside the family. It begins with the urge to change our kin, to change our beloved ones for their own good because we think we know better than them what is good and what is bad for them, what is right and what is wrong in their thinking.
Demosthenes:As a vessel is known by the sound, whether it be cracked or not; so men are proved, by their speeches, whether they be wise or foolish.
Jose Rizal:He who does not know how to look back at where he came from will never get to his destination.
Stanislaw Lem:I hadn't known there were so many idiots in the world until I started using the Internet.
Claude McKay:I know the dark delight of being strange, The penalty of difference in the crowd, The loneliness of wisdom among fools...
Levi-Strauss:Scientific knowledge advances haltingly and is stimulated by contention and doubt.
Thornton Wilder:“The knowledge that she would never be loved in return acted upon her ideas as a tide acts upon cliffs.”
Muhammad Iqbal:inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.
Epicurus:The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.
It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
Nietzsche:Faith is not wanting to know what is true.
Cavafy:He knows he’s aged a lot: he sees it, feels it.
Yet it seems he was young just yesterday.
So brief an interval, so very brief.
Carl Sandburg:Yesterday is done. Tomorrow never comes. Today is here. If you don't know what to do, sit still and listen.
Aristophanes:Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
Octavio Paz:Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.
W. Burroughs:You were not there for the beginning. You will not be there for the end. Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
Frida Kahlo:I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.
Chanel:As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!
Bertrand Russell:“Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
van Gogh,Vincent:I don't know anything with certainty, but seeing the stars makes me dream.
Lautreamont:Arithmetic! Algebra! Geometry! Grandiose trinity! Luminous triangle! Whoever has not known you is without sense!
Tennyson:Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.
Hawthorne:Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Plutarch:Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.
Plotinus:Self-knowledge reveals to the soul that its natural motion is not, if uninterrupted, in a straight line, but circular, as around some inner object, about a center, the point to which it owes its origin.”
de Sade,Marquis:In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.
Balzac:Reading brings us unknown friends.
Omar Khayyam:Drink! for you know not whence you came nor why: drink! for you know not why you go, nor where.
Calderon:One may know how to gain a victory, and know not how to use it.
Proudhon:Laws: We know what they are, and what they are worth! They are spider webs for the rich and mighty, steel chains for the poor and weak, fishing nets in the hands of government.
Upton Sinclair:But I have a conscience and a religious faith, and I know that our liberties were not won without suffering, and may be lost again through our cowardice. I intend to do my duty to my country.
Truman Capote:“As long as you live, there's always something waiting; and even if it's bad, and you know it's bad, what can you do? You can't stop living.”
Feuerbach:To know God and not oneself to be God, to know blessedness and not oneself to enjoy it, is a state of disunity or unhappiness.”
Ezra Pound:I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn't irascible.
Mario Benedetti:I know I will love you without questions, I know you will love me without answers.
Sinclair Lewis:There are two insults which no human being will endure: The assertion that he hasn't a sense of humor, and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble.
Handel:Whether I was in my body or out of my body as I wrote it I know not. God knows.
Norman Mailer:There are four stages in a marriage. First there's the affair, then the marriage, then children and finally the fourth stage, without which you cannot know a woman, the divorce.
Novalis:A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
Isokratis:Speak in two cases, if you know well or is a need to speak.
Hippocrates:It is more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease that person has.
Charles Bukowski:If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose.
Jim Morrison:believe in a long, prolonged, derangement of the senses in order to obtain the unknown.
Xenophon:Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.
Isaac Asimov:The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
Pablo Neruda:I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where,
I love you simply, without problems or pride:
I love you in this way because I don’t know any other way of loving.
Lorca:I know there is no straight road
No straight road in this world
Only a giant labyrinth
Of intersecting crossroads
Rousseau:People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
Balzac:A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
Walt Disney:I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.
Elvis Presley:From the time I was a kid, I always knew something was going to happen to me. Didn't know exactly what.
Arthur Clarke:We have to abandon the idea that schooling is something restricted to youth. How can it be, in a world where half the things a man knows at 20 are no longer true at 40 - and half the things he knows at 40 hadn't been discovered when he was 20?
Vonnegut:New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.
Saramago:Your questions are false if you already know the answer.
Alexandre Dumas:It's necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.
John Locke:Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
William James:The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook.
Doris Lessing:You know, when I was a girl, the idea that the British Empire could ever end was absolutely inconceivable. And it just disappeared, like all the other empires.
Aeschylus:I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence.
Thales: It's easy to give advice to others
It's difficult to know yourself .
Valery Paul:The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best.
Charles Bukowski:It's possible to love a human being if you don't know them too well.
Sylvia Plath:There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them.
Pindar:Whoever knows many things
By nature is a poet.
Xenophon:Men often fail to understand their own weaknesses, and their lack of self-knowledge can bring terrible disasters down on their own heads.
Bob Marley:When one door is closed, don't you know, another is open.
Exupery:A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
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Lawrence:Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.
Petrarca:To begin with myself, then, the utterances of men concerning me will differ widely, since in passing judgment almost every one is influenced not so much by truth as by preference, and good and evil report alike know no bounds.
Machiavelli:He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to
Hobbes:Knowledge is power.
Beethoven:Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.
John Milton:Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
Albert Camus:You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.
Alfred Adler:“The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.”
Beckett:ll I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead.
Jean Genet:I'm homosexual... How and why are idle questions. It's a little like wanting to know why my eyes are green.
Dostoevsky:I am a dreamer. I know so little of real life that I just can’t help re-living such moments as these in my dreams, for such moments are something I have very rarely experienced. I am going to dream about you the whole night, the whole week, the whole year.
Remarque:I am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss of sorrow. I see how peoples are set against one another, and in silence, unknowingly, foolishly, obediently, innocently slay one another.
Isokratis:We try gold in fire, we know our friends in mishaps.
Montesquieu:In most things success depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.
L. Wittgenstein:I am sitting with a philosopher in the garden; he says again and again 'I know that that’s a tree', pointing to a tree that is near us. Someone else arrives and hears this, and I tell him: 'This fellow isn’t insane. We are only doing philosophy.
Khalil Gibran:Love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
Thomas Paine:I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church.
Arthur Clarke:Ιnformation is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, and wisdom is not foresight. Each grows out of the other, and we need them all.
Upton Sinclair:The rich people not only had all the money, they had all the chance to get more; they had all the know-ledge and the power, and so the poor man was down, and he had to stay down.
Nadine Gordimer:Humans, the only self-regarding animals, blessed or cursed with this torturing higher faculty, have always wanted to know why.
Brendan Behan:Critics are like eunuchs in a harem; they know how it's done, they've seen it done every day, but they're unable to do it themselves.
Thales: Know the value of time.
Plato:Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion and knowledge.
Goethe:As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
Gabriel Marquez:A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.
Isaac Asimov:Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.”
John Steinbeck:You know how advice is - you only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyways.
Antonio Porchia:He who has seem everything empty itself is close
to knowing what everything is filled with.
Oscar Wilde:“I am not young enough to know everything.
Immanuel Kant:It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.
Upton Sinclair:Through fasting. . .I have found a perfect health, a new state of existence, a feeling of purity and happiness, something unknown to humans.
John Locke:Our Business here is not to know all things, but those which concern our conduct.
Krishnamurti:In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.
Thomas Aquinas:Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.
Aeschylus:Don't you know this, that words are doctors to a diseased temperment?
Durant Will:Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
Carl Sandburg:I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.
Diderot:There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge: observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination.
Isaac Asimov:If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.”
Tennessee Williams:can't expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.
L. Wittgenstein:We are asleep. Our Life is a dream. But we wake up sometimes, just enough to know that we are dreaming
Thomas Eliot:We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started... and know the place for the first time.
Franz Kafka:We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. The state in which we are is sinful, irrespective of guilt.
Igor Stravinsky:I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I can know only what the truth is for me today. That is what I am called upon to serve, and I serve it in all lucidity.
van Gogh,Vincent:The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.
Elder the Pliny:In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment.
Moliere:Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death
Somerset Maugham:Do you know that conversation is one of the greatest pleasures in life? But it wants leisure.
Carl Rogers:As no one else can know how we perceive, we are the best experts on ourselves.
Thomas Aquinas:Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do.
Socrates:Pity the one who don't know that they don't know what they don't know.
Einstein:I don't know with what weapons World War 3 will be fought, but World War 4 will be fought with sticks and stones.
Washington:There is nothing which can better deserve your patronage, than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.
Edith Piaf:I've always wanted to sing, just as I've always known that one day I would have my own niche in the annals of song. It was a feeling I had.
Igor Stravinsky:The real composer thinks about his work the whole time; he is not always conscious of this, but he is aware of it later when he suddenly knows what he will do.
Bertrand Russell:Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give
Marcel Proust:Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.
Immanuel Kant:All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
Skinner:I won't say that I'm an agnostic, since agnosticism maintains that one cannot know... but I'm not averse to the idea of some intelligence or some organizing force that set up the initial conditions of the universe in such a way that ultimately generated stars, planets and life.
Isokratis:Do not laugh at any calamity because destiny is common and the future unknown.
Hippocrates:It is more important to know what person has the disease than what disease the person has.
de Simone Beauvoir:I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself.
Salvador Dali:There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.
Thomas Eliot:Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those we have personality and emotion know what it means to want to escape from these things.
Carl Jung:Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
Henry Thoreau:Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
Pythagoras:As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower beings will never know health or peace. He, who sows the fruit of murder and pain can not reap joy and love.
Isaac Asimov:They won't listen. Do you know why? Because they have certain fixed notions about the past. Any change would be blasphemy in their eyes, even if it were the truth. They don't want the truth; they want their traditions.
B. W. Yeats:I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots.
Walt Disney:I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn't know how to get along without it.
Goethe:Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
L. Martin King,:People fail to get along because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don't know each other; they don't know each other because they have not communicated with each other.
Thomas Eliot: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?
Marcel Proust:Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.
Oscar Wilde:Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
Leo Tolstoy:Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible.
Victor Hugo:The learned man knows that he is ignorant.
Carl Sandburg:There are 10 men in me and I do not know or understand one of them.
John Steinbeck:The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true.
Hermann Hesse:There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge - that is everywhere.
Marcel Proust:Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments.
B. W. Yeats:Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
Bernard Shaw:Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.
Seneca:If you don’t know to which port you are sailing, no wind will be favorable.
Sigmund Freud:Words have a magical power. They can bring either the greatest happiness or deepest despair; they can transfer knowledge from teacher to student; words enable the orator to sway his audience and dictate its decisions. Words are capable of arousing the strongest emotions and prompting all men’s actions.
Oscar Wilde:Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Horace:Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.
Buddha:The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
Confucius:Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
Sigmund Freud:The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.
Gandhi:Those who know how to think need no teachers.
Oscar Wilde:Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.
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