"Men say they know many things;But lo! they have taken wings, -The arts and sciences,And a thousand appliances;The wind that blowsIs all that any body knows."

Knowledge, Ignorance, Mystery, Uncertainty

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"The truth is that few know the truth."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

Knowledge, Truth, Wisdom, Power, Today

"I am reading Henry James, and feel myself as one entombed in a block of smooth amber."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

Knowledge, Reading, Books, Mind, Solitude

"My favorite words in the world are these: in conjunction.They question curiosities in simple form and function. is a query of broadest scope. is wonder that fuels all hope.Together they lasso the mind like rope, and spur the wildest deductions!"

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

Knowledge, Curiosity, Truth, Inspirational, Wisdom

"Somewhere embedded in every ordinary book are the five or six words for which really all the rest will be written."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

Knowledge, Books, Word, Meaning, Writing

"To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away."

Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosopher

Knowledge, Error

"The pursuit of knowledge for its own sake, an almost fanatical love of justice and the desire for personal independence -- these are the features of the Jewish tradition which make me thank my stars that I belong to it."

Albert Einstein, German Scientist

Knowledge, Justice, Independence, Tradition

"Everything I know, I know because of love."

Leo Tolstoy, Russian Novelist

Knowledge, Love, Learning, Understanding

"Experience teaches us that the world is not a nursery."

Sigmund Freud, Austrian Psychologist

Knowledge, Experience, Reality, Truth, Wisdom

"In worthy teaching, all things are related."

Confucius, Chinese Philosopher

Knowledge, Teaching, Understanding, Life, Unity

"What is most of our boasted so-called knowledge but a conceit that we know something, which robs us of the advantage of our actual ignorance?"

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

Knowledge, Ignorance, Conceit, Misconception

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"I thus found that the student who wishes for a shelter can obtain one for a lifetime at an expense not greater than the rent which he now pays annually. If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself; and my shortcomings and inconsistencies do not affect the truth of my statement."

Simplicity

"There is a difference between eating and drinking for strength and from mere gluttony."

Health

"If a man walk in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer; but if he spends his whole day as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making earth bald before her time, he is esteemed an industrious and enterprising citizen."

Environment

"I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes."

Innovation

"How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual friends that we may go and meet their ideal cousins."

Friendship

"The savage in man is never quite eradicated."

Identity

"I have seen how the foundations of the world are laid, and I have not the least doubt that it will stand a good while."

Faith

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"The truth is that few know the truth."

"I am reading Henry James, and feel myself as one entombed in a block of smooth amber."

"My favorite words in the world are these: in conjunction.They question curiosities in simple form and function. is a query of broadest scope. is wonder that fuels all hope.Together they lasso the mind like rope, and spur the wildest deductions!"

"Somewhere embedded in every ordinary book are the five or six words for which really all the rest will be written."

"To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away."

"The pursuit of knowledge for its own sake, an almost fanatical love of justice and the desire for personal independence -- these are the features of the Jewish tradition which make me thank my stars that I belong to it."

"Everything I know, I know because of love."

"Experience teaches us that the world is not a nursery."

"In worthy teaching, all things are related."

"What is most of our boasted so-called knowledge but a conceit that we know something, which robs us of the advantage of our actual ignorance?"

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"There is a difference between eating and drinking for strength and from mere gluttony."

"Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it."

"Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years."

"We have the St. Vitus' dance, and cannot possibly keep our heads still."

"If a man walk in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer; but if he spends his whole day as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making earth bald before her time, he is esteemed an industrious and enterprising citizen."

"I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes."

"How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual friends that we may go and meet their ideal cousins."

"The savage in man is never quite eradicated."

"I have seen how the foundations of the world are laid, and I have not the least doubt that it will stand a good while."