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The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.
Plutarch
To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.
Confucius
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 only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
Albert Einstein
The only true way to understand something is to experience it firsthand.
Unknown
The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.
Frank Herbert
The more that you know, the more you realize that there is to learn.
Unknown
The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.
B.B. King
The mind is everything; what you think, you become
Buddha
The limits of my language means the limits of my world
Ludwig Wittgenstein
The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me
Meister Eckhart
The only way to deal with fear is to face it head on
Yvonne Woon
The more I learn, the more I realize how much I don't know
Albert Einstein
The truth is rarely pure and never simple
Oscar Wilde
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing
Socrates
We see the world not as it is, but as we are
Anaïs Nin
Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind
Plato
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 only true voyage of discovery, the only fountain of Eternal Youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to behold the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to behold the hundred universes that each of them beholds.
Marcel Proust
The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
Bertrand Russell
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 deal with fear is to face it head-on.
Jordan Belfort
The unexamined life is not worth living.
Socrates
Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
Aldous Huxley
Experience is the teacher of all things.
Julius Caesar
Experience is the only thing that brings knowledge, and the longer you are on earth the more experience you are sure to get.
L. Frank Baum
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
Oscar Wilde
Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.
Minna Antrim
Experience is the mother of wisdom.
Proverb
Experience is the comb that life gives you after you lose your hair.
Judith Stern
Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.
Ambrose Bierce
Experience is a brutal teacher, but you learn. My God, do you learn.
C.S. Lewis
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
Oscar Wilde
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 incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.
Winston Churchill
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 always an insult or a joke, lies are generally tastier.
Bukowski
Belief is the death of intelligence.
Robert Anton Wilson
Belief is the psychological state in which an individual holds a proposition or premise to be true.
Wikipedia
Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Belief is the state of mind in which a person thinks something to be the case, with or without there being empirical evidence to prove that something is the case with factual certainty.
Wikipedia
Belief is the antithesis of knowing.
Terence McKenna
Belief is a powerful tool that can be used to manipulate people into doing things they would not otherwise do.
Richard Dawkins
Belief is the enemy of truth.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Belief is a necessary condition for knowledge, but not a sufficient one.
Bertrand Russell
Justification is the glue that holds knowledge together.
Bertrand Russell
Knowledge is justified true belief.
Plato
The justification of knowledge is not a matter of finding a foundation but of tracing its connections to other beliefs.
Hilary Putnam
Justification is the process of providing reasons for accepting a claim as true.
Robert Audi
The justification of knowledge is not a matter of certainty but of probability.
John Dewey
Justification is the means by which we distinguish knowledge from mere opinion.
Aristotle
The justification of knowledge requires both evidence and coherence.
W.V. Quine
The justification of knowledge is a never-ending process of inquiry and revision.
Karl Popper
Justification is the process of showing that a belief is not only true but also rationally acceptable.
Richard Feldman
Skepticism is the first step towards truth.
Denis Diderot
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
Socrates
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
Voltaire
The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.
Christopher Hitchens
The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.
Stephen Hawking
The most important thing we can do is not to stop questioning.
Albert Einstein
The only way to deal with skepticism is to meet it head-on.
Robert Greene
Skepticism is the beginning of faith.
Oscar Wilde
The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.
Napoleon Bonaparte
The greater the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.
Ralph W. Sockman
The only thing I know is that I know nothing.
Socrates
Certainty is the enemy of growth.
Unknown
The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.
Erich Fromm
The only certainty is that there is no certainty.
Unknown
The only certainty is uncertainty.
Pliny the Elder
Objectivity is not the absence of subjectivity, but the ability to recognize one's own subjectivity and to compensate for it.
Thomas Sowell
Objectivity is the delusion that observations could be made without an observer.
Heinz von Foerster
Objectivity is a subject's delusion that observing can be done without him.
Heinz von Foerster
Objectivity is a way of subjectifying oneself.
Bruno Latour
Objectivity is not neutrality; it is simply a method for determining what to believe, based on evidence.
Brian Greene
Objectivity is not the same as neutrality. In fact, neutrality is impossible. Everyone has a point of view, a perspective, and a set of values.
Howard Zinn
Objectivity is a myth, a convenient fiction that allows us to ignore the fact that we are all subjective creatures.
Stephen Batchelor
Objectivity is not the absence of bias, but the presence of methods for dealing with bias.
W. Edwards Deming
Objectivity is not a matter of having no opinions, but of having the right opinions for the right reasons.
Alasdair MacIntyre
Language is the source of misunderstandings.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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 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 blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Language is not a genetic gift, it is a social gift. Learning a new language is becoming a member of the club - the community of speakers of that language.
Frank Smith
Language is the source of all misunderstandings.
Jorge Luis Borges
Language is the means of meaning transport.
Terence McKenna
The world is everything that is the case.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
The map is not the territory.
Alfred Korzybski
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 universe is not only stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
J.B.S. Haldane
Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
Plato
The only source of knowledge is experience.
Albert Einstein
Knowledge is power.
Francis Bacon
The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.
William S. Burroughs
The only thing that I know is that I know nothing.
Socrates
The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.
Martin Luther King Jr.
The mind is everything. What you think you become.
Buddha
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