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"The root-word "buddha" means to wake up, to know, to understand; and he or she who wakes up and understands is call a Buddha. It is as simple as that. The capacity to wake up, to understand, and to love is called Buddha nature."
"There is nothing more uncommon than common sense."
"The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless."
"There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily"
"Knowledge we have. Anyone who strives for it with particular intensity is suspect of striving against it."
"All perception of truth is the detection of an analogy."
"True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment."
"Where there is the tree of knowledge, there is always Paradise: so say the most ancient and most modern serpents."
"From whatever you wish to know and measure you must take your leave, at least for a time. Only when you have left the town can yousee how high its towers rise above the houses."
"For all the talk you hear about knowledge being such a wonderful thing, instinct is worth forty of it for real unerringness."
"God is intelligent; but in what manner? Man is intelligent by the act of reasoning, but the supreme intelligence lies under no necessity to reason. He requires neither premise nor consequences; nor even the simple form of a proposition. His knowledge is purely intuitive. He beholds equally what is and what will be. All truths are to Him as one idea, as all places are but one point, and all times one moment."
"It is not enough to say that we cannot know or judge because all the information is not in. The process of gathering knowledge does not lead to knowing. A child's world spreads only a little beyond his understanding while that of a great scientist thrusts outward immeasurably. An answer is invariably the parent of a great family of new questions. So we draw worlds and fit them like tracings against the world about us, and crumple them when we find they do not fit and draw new ones."
"The specialist is one who never makes small mistakes while moving toward the grand fallacy."
"Science begets knowledge; opinion, ignorance."
"Those who know don't tell and those who tell don't know."
"Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination."
"Knowledge and courage take turns at greatness."
"We live by information, not by sight."
"Management means, in the last analysis, the substitution of thought for brawn and muscle, of knowledge for folkways and superstition, and of cooperation for force. It means the substitution of responsibility for obedience to rank, and of authority of performance for the authority of rank."
"Most people affirm pleasure to be the good, but the finer sort of wits say it is knowledge."
