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  • You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.

    William Blake, Michael Mason (1998). “Selected Poetry”, p.77, Oxford University Press, USA
  • The difference between the actual and the ideal force of man is happily figured in by the schoolmen, in saying, that the knowledgeof man is an evening knowledge, vespertina cognitio, but that of God is a morning knowledge, matutina cognitio.

    Morning   Knowledge   Men  
    Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.70, Harvard University Press
  • From the physician, as emphatically the student of Nature, is expected not only an inquiry into cause, but an investigation of the whole empire of Nature and a determination of the applicability of every species of knowledge to the improvement of his art.

  • The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.

    Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.13, 谷月社
  • Happiness exist when you don't know a thing

    Song: Montreal, 2011
  • You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing.

    Herman Melville (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Herman Melville (Illustrated)”, p.1221, Delphi Classics
  • True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

    Henry David Thoreau (2001). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.182, Courier Corporation
  • Knowledge cannot be stolen from us. It cannot be bought or sold. We may be poor, and the sheriff may come and sell our furniture, or drive away our cow, or take our pet lamb, and leave us homeless and penniless; but he cannot lay the law's hand upon the jewelry of our minds.

    Knowledge   Hands   Law  
  • Proof is an idol before which the mathematician tortures himself.

  • The universe is not only queerer than we suppose; it is queerer than we can suppose

    Bill Bryson (2014). “A Short History of Nearly Everything”, p.20, Lulu Press, Inc
  • Positivism stands or falls with the principle of scientism, that is that the meaning of knowledge is defined by what the sciences do and can thus be adequately explicated through the methodological analysis of scientific procedures.

  • The more clever and cunning people are, the stranger the events will be.

  • In the meantime, the educated public continues to believe that Darwin has provided all the relevant answers by the magic formula of random mutations plus natural selection -quite unaware of the fact that random mutations turned out to be irrelevant and natural selection tautology.

    "Janus: A Summing Up". Book by Arthur Koestler, p. 184-5, 1983.
  • In garden arrangement, as in all other kinds of decorative work, one has not only to acquire a knowledge of what to do, but also to gain some wisdom in perceiving what it is well to let alone.

    Wisdom   Art   Knowledge  
    Gertrude Jekyll (1913). “Wall and Water Gardens: With Chapters on the Rock-garden and the Heath-garden”
  • Sin, guilt, neurosis; they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.

    Knowledge   Tree   Guilt  
    Henry Miller (1941). “The Wisdom of the Heart”, p.11, New Directions Publishing
  • Upon a given body to generate and superinduce a new nature or new natures is the work and aim of human power. To discover the Form of a given nature, or its true difference, or its causal nature, or fount of its emanation... this is the work and aim of human knowledge.

    Francis Bacon (1855). “The Novum Organon,: Or a True Guide to the Interpretation of Nature”, p.113
  • If the fresh facts come to our knowledge all fit themselves into the scheme, then our hypothesis may gradually become a solution. Sherlock Holmes speaking with Dr. Watson.

    Knowledge   Drs   May  
  • The use of knowledge in our sex (beside the amusement of solitude) is to moderate the passions and learn to be contented with a small expense, which are the certain effects of a studious life and, it may be, preferable even to that fame which men have engrossed to themselves and will not suffer us to share.

    Sex   Passion   Knowledge  
    Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1825). “The Works of the Right Honourable Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Including Her Correspondence, Poems, and Essays, Form Her Genuine Papers”, p.375
  • There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

    "Vesalius in Zante (1564)" st. 12 (1902)
  • Mastery is not something that strikes in an instant, like a thunderbolt, but a gathering power that moves steadily through time, like weather.

    Education   Time   Moving  
  • Much as we might wish to believe otherwise, universal love and the welfare of the species as a whole are concepts which simply do not make evolutionary sense.

    Love   Hope   Wisdom  
    The Selfish Gene ch. 1 (1976)
  • Manners must adorn knowledge and smooth its way in the world, without them it is like a great rough diamond, very well in a closet by way of curiosity, and also for its intrinsic value; but most prized when polished.

  • Be open to all teachers And all teachings, And listen with your heart.

  • People will listen when they're ready to listen and not before. Don't waste time with people who want to argue. They'll keep you immobilized forever. Look for people who are already open to something new.

    Daniel Quinn (2009). “Beyond Civilization: Humanity's Next Great Adventure”, p.189, Broadway Books
  • Spirituality means waking up. Most people, even though they don't know it, are asleep. They're born asleep, they live asleep, they marry in their sleep, they breed children in their sleep, they die in their sleep without ever waking up. They never understand the loveliness and the beauty of this thing that we call human existence.

    "Approaching God : How to Pray". Book by Steve Brown (p. 94), 1995.
  • What harm in learning and getting knowledge even from a sot, a pot, a fool, a mitten, or a slipper. [Fr., Que nuist savoir tousjours et tousjours apprendre, fust ce D'un sot, d'une pot, d'une que--doufle D'un mouffe, d'un pantoufle.]

  • It is better to have a few forms well known than to teach a little about many hundred species. Better a dozen specimens thoroughly studied as the result of the first year's work, than to have two thousand dollars' worth of shells and corals bought from a curiosity-shop. The dozen animals would be your own.

  • Learning is not the accumulation of knowledge. Learning is movement from moment to moment.

    Jiddu Krishnamurti (1998). “You are the World: Authentic Report of Talks and Discussions in American Universities”, p.25, Krishnamurti Foundation Trust Ltd.
  • Knowledge of means without knowledge of ends is animal training.

    Knowledge   Mean   Animal  
  • I work for posterity, these things requiring ages for their accomplishment.

    Francis Bacon, James Spedding, Robert Leslie Ellis, Douglas Denon Heath (2011). “The Works of Francis Bacon”, p.532, Cambridge University Press
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