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Theories are nets cast to catch what we call 'the world': to rationalize, to explain, to master it.
Karl Popper
Theories are like maps: they simplify and highlight certain features, while leaving others out.
Steven Pinker
Theories are not truth; they are tools for understanding and predicting phenomena.
Albert Einstein
The map is not the territory.
Alfred Korzybski
All models are wrong, but some are useful.
George E. P. Box
Theories are mental constructs that help us explain and predict phenomena.
David G. Myers
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 more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
Voltaire
The greatest obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents, and the oceans was not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge.
Daniel J. Boorstin
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.
Awareness is the greatest agent for change.
Eckhart Tolle
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.
William James
The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is. Self-knowledge has no end.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
The only way to deal with fear is to face it head-on.
Jordan Belfort
The more you know, the more you realize you don't know.
Aristotle
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke
The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.
Nathaniel Branden
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.
Daniel J. Boorstin
The only source of knowledge is experience.
Albert Einstein
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 art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.
Thomas Berger
The only true way to wisdom is through understanding.
Socrates
Insight is not a light bulb that goes off inside our heads. It is a flickering candle that can easily be snuffed out.
Malcolm Gladwell
The more you know, the more you realize you know nothing.
Aristotle
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
Plutarch
The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.
Frank Herbert
The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.
Mortimer Adler
The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.
Stephen Hawking
The more I learn, the more I realize how much I don't know.
Albert Einstein
Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
Abigail Adams
The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.
Plutarch
The capacity to learn is a gift; the ability to learn is a skill; the willingness to learn is a choice.
Brian Herbert
The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.
Dr. Seuss
Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think.
Albert Einstein
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
Socrates
The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.
Henri Bergson
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 world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
Bertrand Russell
The mind is everything; what you think, you become.
Buddha
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 most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science.
Albert Einstein
The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
Eden Phillpotts
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
Marcel Proust
The limits of my language mean 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 mind is like a parachute, it doesn't work if it isn't open.
Frank Zappa
The mind is a wonderful servant, but a terrible master.
Robin Sharma
The mind is a machine that is constantly asking: What would I prefer?
Sam Harris
The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive.
Eckhart Tolle
Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us.
Oscar Wilde
Memory is the treasure house of the mind wherein the monuments thereof are kept and preserved.
Thomas Fuller
Memory is the mother of all wisdom.
Aeschylus
Memory is the scribe of the soul.
Aristotle
Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
Barbara Kingsolver
Memory is the power to gather roses in winter.
Unknown
Memory is the only paradise from which we cannot be driven.
Jean Paul Richter
Memory is the fourth dimension to any landscape.
Janet Fitch
Reasoning is the process by which we go from the known to the unknown.
Neil Armstrong
Reasoning draws a conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, unless the mind discovers it by the path of experience.
Roger Bacon
Reasoning is a process, not a destination.
Edward de Bono
Reasoning is the natural organ of truth, but imagination is the organ of meaning.
C.S. Lewis
Reasoning is the power of the mind to think, understand, and form judgments by a process of logic.
Unknown
Reasoning is the process of thinking about things in a logical, rational way.
Unknown
Reasoning is the process of using existing knowledge to draw conclusions, make predictions, or construct explanations.
Unknown
Reasoning is the mental process of drawing conclusions from premises using logical methods.
Unknown
Reasoning is the process of using evidence to support a claim or conclusion.
Unknown
The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
Albert Einstein
Intelligence is the ability to make finer distinctions.
Robert Kiyosaki
Intelligence is the ability to see patterns where others see only randomness.
Angela Duckworth
Intelligence is the ability to learn from experience.
Unknown
Intelligence is the ability to solve problems.
Unknown
Intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Intelligence is the ability to think abstractly.
Unknown
Intelligence is the ability to understand complex ideas.
Unknown
Consciousness is the fundamental thing in existence. It is the energy, the motion, the movement of consciousness that creates the universe and everything in it.
Deepak Chopra
Consciousness is the basis of all life and the field of all possibilities. Its nature is to expand and unfold its full potential.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Consciousness is not just the sum of all your thoughts, feelings, and sensations. It is the awareness that underlies them all.
Eckhart Tolle
Consciousness is the key to understanding the universe. Without it, we are like a blind person trying to describe the color of the sky.
Max Planck
Consciousness is the ground of all being, the ultimate reality, the source and substance of every creature and every phenomenon in the universe.
David Bohm
Consciousness is not a thing or a substance, but a process. It is the process by which the brain creates a model of the world to guide behavior.
Stanislas Dehaene
Consciousness is not just a passive observer of reality, but an active participant in creating it.
Bernardo Kastrup
Consciousness is the most mysterious and fascinating phenomenon in the universe. It is the one thing that cannot be reduced to anything else.
Christof Koch
Consciousness is the light that illuminates all experience. It is the source of all meaning, value, and purpose in life.
Ken Wilber
The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
William Shakespeare
The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms.
Socrates
The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.
Lao Tzu
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 speaks because he has something to say, the fool because he has to say something.
Plato
The wise man knows himself to be a part of nature, not above it.
Masanobu Fukuoka
The wise man knows that he knows nothing, the fool thinks he knows all.
African Proverb
The wise man knows that the only fitting price for his soul is a place in the hierarchy of knowledge.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Knowledge is power.
Francis Bacon
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
Confucius
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
William Butler Yeats
Information is the resolution of uncertainty.
Claude Shannon
The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.
Robert Frost
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
William James
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