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“That knowledge which purifies the mind and heart alone is true Knowledge, all else is only a negation of Knowledge.”
“We oft know little of who we were, only something of who we are, and nothing of who we may be.”
“Only the subject's individual consciousness can testify for the unwitnessed acts, and there is no act more deprived of external testimony than the act of knowing.”
“But shortcuts are dangerous we cannot delude ourselves that our knowledge is further along than it actually is. ”
“Those swift to think are not always secure.”
“Whatever people in general do not understand, they are always prepared to dislike; the incomprehensible is always the obnoxious.”
“The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing.”
“It's common platitude that knowledge is neutral but every now and then it would be useful if it was on your side and not theirs.”
“Oh, I have a habit of letting myself be lectured on the things I know best. I like to see if they are understood in the same way I understand; for there are many ways of knowing the same thing”
“Knowing is not enough. You must accept My blessings in order to attain a better life. You must embrace a higher level of consciousness.”
“A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.”
“Life, just like the stars, the planets and the galaxies, is just a temporary structure on the long road from order to disorder. But that doesn't make us insignificant, because we are the Cosmos mad...”
“There was, I found, always more to learn.”
“Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for...”
“... informed ignorance provides the natural state of mind for research scientists at the ever-shifting frontiers of knowledge. People who believe themselves ignorant of nothing have neither looked ...”
“One had to live a long time to know a man's true nature.”
“Neglect of mathematics work injury to all knowledge, since he who is ignorant of it cannot know the other sciences or things of this world. And what is worst, those who are thus ignorant are unable...”
“Knowing trees, I came to realize, understand and appreciate the act of patience.”
“She had discovered that her love of knowing was not unnatural or sinful but the direct consequence of a God-given ability to reason.”
“I have sent books and music there, and all / Those instruments with which high spirits call / The future from its cradle, and the past / Out of its grave, and make the present last / In thoughts an...”
