Quotes 841 till 860 of 1220.
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The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.
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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 European style of living is seductive: fewer hours worked, more hours at the cafe, less concern over self-betterment. But that style of living does not produce a purposeful life.
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The explosion in access to mobile phones and digital services means that people everywhere are contributing vast amounts of information to the global knowledge warehouse. Moreover, they are doing so for free, just by communicating, buying and selling goods and going about their daily lives.
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The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another s, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.
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The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self. All sin is easy after that.
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The first sin in our universe was Lucifer's self conceit.
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The first step in a person's salvation is knowledge of their sin.
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The first step to self-knowledge is self-distrust. Nor can we attain to any kind of knowledge, except by a like process.
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The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
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The foolish man conceives the idea of 'self.' The wise man sees there is no ground on which to build the idea of 'self;' thus, he has a right conception of the world and well concludes that all compounds amassed by sorrow will be dissolved again, but the truth will remain.
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The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high authority of the self in its quarrel with its society and its culture. Literature is in that sense subversive.
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The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.
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The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.
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The gap between knowledge and truth is infinite.
Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch Ch. 10 -
The gears of poverty, ignorance, hopelessness and low self-esteem interact to create a kind of perpetual failure machine that grinds down dreams from generation to generation. We all bear the cost of keeping it running. Illiteracy is its linchpin.
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The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.
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The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
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The great menace to the life of an industry is industrial self-complacency.
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The great moments of rock 'n' roll were never off in some corner of the music world, in a self-constructed ghetto.
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