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"How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room. There is no such thing as observation of the inner world, as there is of the outer world."
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"There is only a perspective seeing, only a perspective "knowing"; and the more affects we allow to speak about one thing, the more eyes, different eyes, we can use to observe one thing, the more complete will our "concept" of this thing, our "objectivity," be."
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"Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know."
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"Science is a proven concept with standards. Wisdom is the knowledge of life that we learn by living it."
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"If we knew what is already there, there will be no need for research."
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"One of the most important gifts that you can give to yourself is the gift of self-education, that is the best way to grow on constant basis."
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"If you begin to read, you find the answers you seek."
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"Understand the concept of time and find ways to maximize it effectively."
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"Why must ignorance be destroyed? Because it is the number one destroyer of the people of God."
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"Oh, my dear Vimes, history changes all the time. It is constantly being re-examined and re-evaluated, otherwise how would we be able to keep historians occupied? We can't possibly allow people with their sort of minds to walk around with time on their hands."
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"I know that I do not know, and uncertainty, certainly, is the cruelest of words."
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"Writers speak stench."
Writing

"It is only because of their stupidity that they are able to be so sure of themselves."
Irony

"Judgement does not come suddenly, the proceedings gradually merge into the judgement."
Judgment

"Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues."
Beginning

"I am constantly trying to communicate something incommunicable, to explain something inexplicable, to tell about something I only feel in my bones and which can only be experienced in those bones. Basically it is nothing other than this fear we have so often talked about, but fear spread to everything, fear of the greatest as of the smallest, fear, paralyzing fear of pronouncing a word, although this fear may not only be fear but also a longing for something greater than all that is fearful."
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"Every word first looks around in every direction before letting itself be written down by me."
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"German is my mother tongue and as such more natural to me, but I consider Czech much more affectionate, which is why your letter removes several uncertainties; I see you more clearly, the movements of your body, your hands, so quick, so resolute, it's almost like a meeting."
Language

"Not everyone can see the truth, but he can be it."
Truth

"Most men are not wicked... They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers."
Awareness

"Life is hard, the earth stubborn, science rich in knowledge but poor in practical results."
Science
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