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Knowledge Quotes
"He who knows everything about the future must surely be a cursed person! Because life is beautiful if you do not know what life will bring you!"
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"Ignorance' (absence of Self-Knowledge) creates vibrations (causes) and 'Knowledge' (Self-Knowledge) stops these vibrations."
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"Knowledge is not obtained through being absorbed in a book, it comes when you brush aside fantasies and sensuality, switching from the unreal to the real."
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"You don't spend your life hanging around books without learning a thing or two."
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"Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakenly meant for his ear; the profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader; the profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until it is discovered by an equal mind and heart."
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"It's called publishing. It's how smart people install new ideas into other peoples brains."
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"Mathematics effectively began when a few Greek friends got together to talk about numbers and lines and angles."
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"If we read, we shall renew our mind."
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"What you see and feel depends on what you know and what you are looking for."
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"Invest your money and time acquiring knowledge for yourself... and the good news is that as you do so, you keep your children and grandchildren and unborn generations enlightened by what you have already learnt!"
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"When knowledge is put into practice, then through your experience of it, it becomes your insight."
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"Everything I know, I know because of love."
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"Let's say intelligence is your ability to compose poetry, symphonies, do art, math and science. Chimps can't do any of that, yet we share 99 percent DNA. Everything that we are, that distinguishes us from chimps, emerges from that one-percent difference."
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"I know a lot of stuff, not only about you, about me (of course) and many other people.... "So how I don't know??" you ask yourself??You never asked me and even you asked me you never understood me. You just said "Okay"... and that's all."
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"All we can do is to prepare for a universal language that will go on changing for ever. We don't know everything. We aren't final. I wish we could make that statement a part of the Fundamental Law."
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"Complete focused applied awareness of the Soul (shuddha upayog) is considered absolute Knowledge (keval gnan)."
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"Without books, everything would have been crooked. Without books, the wisdom in books today would have been fairy and folk tales. Without books the whole truth about life would have been imaginations and a guessing game."
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"Creation is scientific."
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"We sometimes reveal how ignorant or bored we were when we read a book by giving it 5-stars."
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"Alice thought to herself, 'Then there's no use in speaking.' The voices didn't join in this time, as she hadn't spoken, but to her great surprise, they all thought in chorus (I hope you understand what thinking in chorus means--for I must confess that I don't), 'Better say nothing at all. Language is worth a thousand pounds a word!"
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"Nothing important is learned, it is simply remembered."
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"When you juice books from a library you are taking the history and imagination that has accumulated over so many years there."
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"Books are ... companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of mind. Books are humanity in print."
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"When you read once, you get the understanding ; when you read twice, you get the second understanding. Don't just read, read!"
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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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"There are two aspects to this world; even though it is fickle, it is within principle. Through the medium of the five senses and intellectual knowledge, it appears fickle and through 'Gnan' (Real Knowledge) it appears to be within principle."
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"If only I had thought of a Kodak! I could have flashed that glimpse of the Under-world in a second, and examined it at leisure."
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"A good question is the shortcut to a good answer."
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"Valuing knowledge above all else results in a lust for power, and that leads men into dark and empty places."
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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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"The book you read and read well, over and over again, lives in you, becomes your thought and thinking pattern, teaches you all the time and keeps reminding you about how to act and react towards things and occurrences' in life!"
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"There is enough knowledge in the books to explain the existing, your knowledge must inspire what is possible."
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