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The map is not the territory.
Alfred Korzybski
The reality of the world is the result of a process of inquiry and interpretation.
Hans-Georg Gadamer
Knowledge is not a passive reflection of the world; it is an active encounter with the world.
Giambattista Vico
The mind is furnished with ideas by experience alone.
John Locke
The world is my representation.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
Anton Chekhov
Knowledge is not a thing to be monopolized; it is a thing to be shared.
John Holt
Experience is the teacher of all things.
Julius Caesar
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
Aldous Huxley
Experience is a good school, but the fees are high.
Heinrich Heine
Knowledge is experience, everything else is just information.
Albert Einstein
Experience is the mother of wisdom.
Proverb
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.
Vernon Law
The universe is not only stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
J.B.S. Haldane
Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
Carl Sagan
The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
Eden Phillpotts
The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.
Rachel Carson
The universe is a pretty big place. If it's just us, seems like an awful waste of space.
Carl Sagan
The universe is full of surprises, and history is full of people who insist on denying them.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
The universe is not a puzzle to be solved. It is a mystery to be experienced.
Dinesh D'Souza
Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.
Ivern Ball
The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.
Stephen Hawking
The only source of knowledge is experience.
Albert Einstein
Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.
Martin H. Fischer
The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.
William S. Burroughs
Knowledge is like a garden: if it is not cultivated, it cannot be harvested.
Proverb
The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
Anais Nin
Knowledge which is divorced from justice may be called cunning rather than wisdom.
Cicero
All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
Immanuel Kant
The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me.
Meister Eckhart
The mind is everything; what you think, you become.
Buddha
The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
Bertrand Russell
We see things not as they are, but as we are.
Anaïs Nin
The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.
Plutarch
Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Belief is the wound that knowledge heals.
Ursula K. Le Guin
Belief is the psychological state in which an individual holds a proposition or premise to be true.
Alvin Plantinga
Belief is the antithesis of knowing.
Terence McKenna
Belief is the force that causes things to happen.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.
Ralph Cudworth
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
Socrates
The mind is everything. What you think you become.
Buddha
The world is everything that is the case.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
The only thing we know for sure is that we know nothing for sure.
Plato
The universe is transformation; our life is what our thoughts make it.
Marcus Aurelius
The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.
Horace Walpole
The world is not what it seems; it is much more wonderful than that.
Richard Feynman
The reality of the world is always a creation of the mind.
Hans-Georg Gadamer
The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
The more I learn, the more I realize how much I don't know.
Albert Einstein
We know nothing at all. All our knowledge is but the knowledge of schoolchildren.
Albert Einstein
The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
Eden Phillpotts
The human mind is incapable of grasping the universe. We are like a little child entering a huge library. The walls are covered to the ceilings with books in many different tongues. The child knows that someone must have written these books. It does not know who or how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. But the child notes a definite plan in the arrangement of the books - a mysterious order which it does not comprehend, but only dimly suspects.
Albert Einstein
The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
The only thing I know is that I know nothing.
Socrates
The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.
Arthur C. Clarke
Language is the source of misunderstandings.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Language is the means of getting an idea from my brain into yours without surgery.
Mark Amidon
Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going.
Rita Mae Brown
Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it.
Benjamin Lee Whorf
Language is the dress of thought.
Samuel Johnson
Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Language is the light of the mind.
John Stuart Mill
Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
Will Durant
Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
Plato
Knowledge is power.
Francis Bacon
Knowledge is not a thing to be monopolized; it is a gift to be shared.
Unknown
Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.
Lao Tzu
The more you know, the more you realize you don't know.
Aristotle
Intuition is the eye of the soul.
Immanuel Kant
Intuition is the source and foundation of all knowledge.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the way.
Florence Scovel Shinn
Intuition is a powerful force, the source of which cannot be explained.
Roger Penrose
Intuition is the highest form of intelligence, transcending all individual abilities and skills.
Sylvia Clare
Intuition is the key to unlocking the door to knowledge.
Paramahansa Yogananda
Intuition is the foundation of all knowledge, and the only way to acquire it is through experience.
Albert Einstein
Intuition is the voice of the soul, guiding us towards truth and wisdom.
Deepak Chopra
Consciousness is a precondition of knowledge.
Ayn Rand
All knowledge is consciousness, and all consciousness is knowledge.
William James
Knowledge is the consciousness of truth.
Henry David Thoreau
Knowledge is the awareness of our own ignorance.
Confucius
Consciousness is the foundation of all knowledge.
David Bohm
Knowledge is the product of consciousness.
Ernest Holmes
Knowledge is the awareness of the interconnectedness of all things.
Gregory Bateson
Consciousness is the medium of all knowledge.
Alfred North Whitehead
Knowledge is the manifestation of consciousness.
Sri Aurobindo
Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
C.S. Lewis
Reason is a harmonizing, controlling force rather than a creative one.
Bertrand Russell
Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason.
Sir Edward Coke
Reason is the only oracle of man.
Ethan Allen
Reason is the mistress and queen of all things.
Cicero
Reason is the foundation of all certainty.
John Locke
Reason is the highest faculty of man.
Immanuel Kant
Reason is the light, the sun of the mind.
John Milton
Reason is the glory of human nature, and one of the chief eminences whereby we are raised above our fellow-creatures, the brutes.
John Locke
Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.
Cicero
To know and not to do is not yet to know.
Confucius
Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.
Kofi Annan
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