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"Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement."
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"Getting an education is not only a matter of checking the boxes as your life progresses, it is a gift which can enrich every aspect of your world."
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"If you are still breathing, don not stop learning."
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"If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking."
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"It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English - up to fifty words used in correct context - no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese."
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"If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work. The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavorable. Favorable conditions never come."
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"All true histories contain instruction; though, in some, the treasure may be hard to find, and when found, so trivial in quantity, that the dry, shriveled kernel scarcely compensates for the trouble of cracking the nut."
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"The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust."
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"I who know many present things by my art," replied the Hermit with a smile, "have yet little knowledge of things future. Therefore I do not know whether any man or woman or beast in the whole world will be alive when the sun sets tonight. But be of good hope. The damsel is likely to live as long as any her age."
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"Have books 'happened' to you? Unless your answer to that question is 'yes,' I'm unsure how to talk to you."
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"Knowing more than someone does not necessarily mean that you know every single thing they know."
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"It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed "Wisdom." And then I know exactly what is going to follow: "Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.""
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"A confession has to be part of your new life."
Life
"The world is the totality of facts, not of things."
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"Not every religion has to have St. Augustine's attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriages are celebrated in a church, everyone present knows what is going to happen that night, but that doesn't prevent it being a religious ceremony."
Attitude
"When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of."
Truth
"If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration, but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present."
Presence
"There is a truth in Schopenhauer's view that philosophy is an organism, and that a book on philosophy, with a beginning and end, is a sort of contradiction. ... In philosophy matters are not simple enough for us to say 'Let's get a rough idea', for we do not know the country except by knowing the connections between the roads."
Philosophy
"The agreement or disagreement or its sense with reality constitutes its truth or falsity."
Philosophy
"Language is a labyrinth of paths. You approach from one side and know your way about, you approach the same place from another side and no longer know your way about."
Language
"Our greatest stupidities may be very wise."
Intelligence
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