All Quotes By Tag: Knowledge
“Happiness is what matters, feeling alive-not art or knowledge or money.”
“One thing a man must have: either a naturally light disposition or a disposition lightened by art and knowledge.”
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“The world is a different place in this new century, […]. And we are a different people. My visions still come but no one listens any longer to what they tell us, what they warn us. I knew even as a young woman that destruction bred on the horizon. […] War touches everyone, and windigos spring from the earth.”
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“If she could no longer be called beautiful, she possessed something better-a knowledge of beauty; it’s inflated value, it’s inevitable loss.”
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“Baxter knows a lot more than I do, I told her.Yes, said Baxter, but I will never tell people all of it.”
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“Knowledge is knowing the depth of the ocean. Wisdom is knowing till where to swim.”
“You can’t be a rebel without the scars that come with it. Truth is, some days scars are just as ugly as they are beautiful.”
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“When you optimize your talents very well, you can pick money from people’s pockets and nobody will ever get the guts to call you a thief.”
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“My father used to tell me that stories offer the listener a chance to escape but, more importantly, he said, they provide people with a chance to maximize their minds. Suspend ordinary constraints, allow the imagination to be freed, and we are charged with the capability of heighetned thought.Learn to use your eyes as if they are your ears, he said, and you become connected with the ancient heritage of man, a dream world for the waking mind.”
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“O Heavenly Children, the stories you have concocted in God’s name have angered Him; for he would never instigate war between brothers, or encourage tribes to harbor resentment towards one another. He prefers the man who loves over the one who hates. And the man who spreads kindness, peace and knowledge, over the one who spreads lies, fear and terror — and misuses His name.”
“It’s simple, it’s not that simple; or life is simple, but the things in it are not. When a man does not understand it, he tends to inflate it. When he does, he tends to deflate it. In the end, neither images are fully accurate.”
“The function of a nutrient is to become transmuted, not to leave unaltered traces.”
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“There is a knowledge that is beyond the mind and the intellect, it is the wisdom of consciousness.”
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“Stress the right of the individual to select only what he desires to know, to use any knowledge as he wishes, that he himself owns what he has learned.”
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