"Modern society drinks in streams of information while dying of wisdom thirst."

Knowledge, Information, Wisdom, Awareness

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"Modern society drinks in streams of information while dying of wisdom thirst."

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"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

"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

"Maybe I don't really want to know what's going on. Maybe I'd rather not know. Maybe I couldn't bear to know.The Fall was a fall from innocence to knowledge."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

Knowledge, Ignorance, Fall, Innocence

"I willingly speak to those who know, but for those who do not know I forget."

Aeschylus, Greek Poet

Knowledge, Forget

"It isn't the sort of thing you ask questions about, because the answers are not usually answers you want to know."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

Knowledge, Answers, Truth, Desire

"It is pleasant to be transferred from an office where one is afraid of a sergeant-major into an office where one can intimidate generals and perhaps this is why history is so attractive to the more timid among us."

E. M. Forster, English Novelist

Knowledge, History, Power, Observation, Fear

"Read in oreder to live."

Gustave Flaubert, French Novelist

Knowledge, Reading, Learning, Survival

"In the sort of screen dappled with different states of mind which my consciousness would simultaneously unfold while I read, and which ranged from the aspirations hidden deepest within me to the completely exterior vision of the horizon which I had, at the bottom of the garden, before my eyes, what was first in me, innermost, the constantly moving handle that controlled the rest, was my belief in the philosophical richness and beauty of the book I was reading, and my desire to appropriate them for myself, whatever that book might be."

Marcel Proust, French Author

Knowledge, Reading, Philosophy, Truth

"Nobody can stand between you and knowledge if you are fit for it."

Idries Shah, Indian Author

Knowledge, Determination, Strength, Learning

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"Politics is the art of saying well that which may or may not be true."

Politics

"Don't waste tomorrow on yesterday."

Mindfulness

"Rejecting God's truth b/c of mankind's hypocrisy is like rejecting mathematical truth b/c mankind's incompetence."

Logic

"Never complain about what you permit to be."

Wisdom

"You can't lose in sales if you remember that you're not selling, you're solving problems."

Business

"Winners aren't those who lose the least, but rather those who learn the most from their losses on their way to victory."

Success

"If you aren't loyal to the few you won't be blessed with the many."

Loyalty

"The limiting factor on your success is not the size of the obstacles, but the size of your dream."

Motivation

"You won't get ahead until you get off your behind."

Motivation

"Successful people achieve because they think beforehand when it works & think afterwards when it doesn't work."

Productivity