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The only true knowledge is in knowing you know nothing.
Socrates
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.
William James
The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.
Dr. Seuss
The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.
Steve Jobs
The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.
Plutarch
The only thing that I know is that I know nothing.
Socrates
The more you know, the more you realize you know nothing.
Socrates
Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.
Jimi Hendrix
The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates
The wise learn many things from their enemies.
Aristophanes
The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.
Niccolo Machiavelli
The wise man knows how to run his life so that contemplation is Possible.
Gabriel Marcel
The wise man knows that it is better to sit on the banks of a remote mountain stream than to be emperor of the whole world.
Zhuangzi
The wise man knows that he knows nothing, the fool thinks that he knows all.
Confucius
Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
Anton Chekhov
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
Confucius
The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.
William S. Burroughs
The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.
B.B. King
Knowledge is power, but knowledge without action is useless.
Anthony Robbins
The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
Albert Einstein
Knowledge is like money: to be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in quantity and, hopefully, in value.
Louis L'Amour
Knowledge is not a thing to be monopolized; it is a thing to be shared.
John Holt
Knowledge is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We know what we know, but we don't know what we don't know.
Donald Rumsfeld
Knowledge which is divorced from justice may be called cunning rather than wisdom.
Cicero
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Aristotle
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
Bertrand Russell
Skepticism is the first step towards truth.
Denis Diderot
The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.
Christopher Hitchens
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
Albert Einstein
The only thing I know is that I know nothing.
Socrates
Objectivity is the cure for depression.
Bono
Objectivity is the essence of intelligence.
Mary Parker Follett
Objectivity is the subject subjugating itself to the object.
Constantin Brunner
Objectivity is the result of a complex interaction of interlocking factors.
Thomas Nagel
Objectivity is a way of life, not just a way of thinking.
Ayn Rand
Objectivity is the hallmark of good journalism.
Christiane Amanpour
Objectivity is the recognition of the fact that reality exists independent of any perceiver's consciousness.
Ayn Rand
Objectivity is the key to understanding the world around us.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Objectivity is the foundation of scientific inquiry.
Carl Sagan
All knowledge is subjective.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Knowledge is not a thing, it is a flow.
David Bohm
Knowledge is a social construct.
Thomas Kuhn
All knowledge is partial, contingent, and subjective.
Richard Rorty
Knowledge is not what is known, but the process of knowing.
Theodore Roszak
Knowledge is always a matter of interpretation.
Susan Sontag
Knowledge is not a possession to be guarded, but a flame to be kindled.
Plutarch
Knowledge is a function of power.
Michel Foucault
Knowledge is a function of the knower.
Seyyed Hossein Nasr
Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the way.
Florence Scovel Shinn
Intuition is a sense of knowing how to act spontaneously, without needing to know why.
Sonia Choquette
Intuition is the whisper of the soul.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
Intuition is the key to everything, in painting, filmmaking, business - everything.
David Lynch
Intuition is a powerful force, one that can unlock the secrets of the universe.
Deepak Chopra
Intuition is the source of scientific knowledge.
Aristotle
Intuition is the highest form of intelligence, because it transcends the limitations of reason.
Immanuel Kant
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
Oscar Wilde
The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.
Gloria Steinem
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.
Winston Churchill
The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.
Ayn Rand
The truth is like a lion; you don't have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.
Augustine of Hippo
The truth is more important than the facts.
Frank Lloyd Wright
The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth.
Lao Tzu
The truth is like a surgery. It hurts but cures. A lie is like a painkiller. It gives instant relief but has side effects forever.
Unknown
The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me.
Meister Eckhart
We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
Anaïs Nin
The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
Socrates
The mind is everything; what you think, you become.
Buddha
The more I learn, the more I realize how much I don't know.
Albert Einstein
The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.
Stephen Hawking
We see things not as they are, but as we are. Our perception is shaped by our previous experiences.
Dennis Kimbro
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science.
Albert Einstein
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
Voltaire
The greater the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.
Ralph W. Sockman
The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.
Ursula K. Le Guin
The only certainty is that nothing is certain.
Pliny the Elder
The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.
Erich Fromm
Certainty is the mother of quiet and repose, and uncertainty the cause of variance and contentions.
Edward Coke
Experience is the teacher of all things.
Julius Caesar
The only source of knowledge is experience.
Albert Einstein
Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
Aldous Huxley
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.
Vernon Law
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
Oscar Wilde
Experience is a good school. But the fees are high.
Heinrich Heine
Experience is a comb which nature gives us when we are bald.
Proverb
Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.
Ambrose Bierce
Experience is the universal mother of sciences.
Miguel de Cervantes
Belief is the death of intelligence.
Robert Anton Wilson
Belief is the wound that knowledge heals.
Ursula K. Le Guin
Belief is the antithesis of knowing.
Terence McKenna
Belief is the psychological state in which an individual holds a proposition or premise to be true.
Wikipedia
Belief is the force that drives us to discover the truth.
Miguel Angel Ruiz
Belief is the enemy of knowledge.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
Belief is a powerful tool, but it is not a substitute for knowledge.
Lawrence M. Krauss
Belief is a necessary condition for knowledge, but not a sufficient one.
Bertrand Russell
Belief is a matter of the heart, knowledge is a matter of the mind.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.
Johannes Kepler
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Doubt is often the beginning of wisdom.
M. Scott Peck
Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.
Voltaire
Doubt is not a sign of weakness, but a sign of growth.
Unknown
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