To understand the limitation of things, desire them.
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Quotes tagged ‘Knowledge’
If you try to change it, you will ruin it. Try to hold it, and you will lose it.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
If you understand others you are smart. If you understand yourself you are illuminated. If you overcome others you are powerful. If you overcome yourself you have strength. If you know how to be satisfied you are rich. If you can act with vigor, you have a will. If you don't lose your objectives you…
The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth.
When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everyone will respect you.
Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know.
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.
A man with outward courage dares to die. A man with inward courage dares to live.
Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
When I let go of who I am, I become what I might be.
To attain knowledge, add things everyday. To attain wisdom, remove things every day.
In every desire for knowledge there is already a drop of cruelty.
An Aries needs to be mentally stimulated to thrive, and if you’re feeling like your life isn’t totally together, it’s because you’re waiting to feel ‘settled’ rather than striving to be better, and more knowledgable, each day.
Knowledge is hot water on wool. It shrinks time and space.
Trump or no Trump, there is an urgent need for some kind of public education program surrounding truth. Few people leaving school or college have been formally instructed in logic, and there is shockingly little public understanding of how knowledge is created.
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.