Quotes 301 till 320 of 442.
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The chief difference between horror fans and science fiction fans lies in why they won't walk backwards. A horror fan won't walk backwards because he knows he'll be knifed by a madman. A science fiction fan won't walk backwards because he knows he'll step on the cat.
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The child is naturally meditative. He is a sort of samadhi; he's coming out of the womb of existence. His life river is yet absolutely fresh, just from the source. He knows the truth, but he does not know that he knows.... His knowledge is not yet aware. It is innocent. It is simply there, as a matter of fact. And he is not separate from his knowledge; he is his knowledge. He has not mind, he has simple being.
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The cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
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The difference between a man of sense and a fop is that the fop values himself upon his dress; and the man of sense laughs at it, at the same time he knows he must not neglect it.
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The difference between a professional person and a technician is that a technician knows everything about his job except its ultimate purpose and his place in the scheme of things.
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The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives for ever.
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The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creatures that cannot.
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The First Law of Ecology: Everything Is Connected to Everything Else.... The Second Law of Ecology: Everything Must Go Somewhere.... The Third Law of Ecology: Nature Knows Best.... The Fourth Law of Ecology: There Is No Such Thing as a Free Lunch.
The Closing Circle -
The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself a fool.
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The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
As you like it -
The fool thinks himself to be wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
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The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is.
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The great thing about using the past is that it gives you the most colossal freedom to invent. The research is necessary, of course, but no one writes a novel to dramatically illustrate what everybody already knows.
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The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them.
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The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.
Pensees -
The guy who knows about computers is the last person you want to have creating documentation for people who don't understand computers.
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The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing: we know this in countless ways.
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The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. The friend becomes a traitor by breaking, however unwillingly or sadly, out of our own zone: a hard judgment is passed on him, for all the pleas of the heart.
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The hour of departure has arrived and we go our ways; I to die, and you to live. Which is better? Only God knows.
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