"All human knowledge begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to concepts, and ends with ideas."
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"Learn to hide your need and show your skill."
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"We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people."
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"A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends."
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"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widely spread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible."
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"Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?"
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"Those who Know they do not Know that to Know is to Know what they do not Know!"
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"A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity."
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"Know or listen to those who know."
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"Knowledge will give you power, but character respect."
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"Real knowledge, like every thing else of the highest value, is not to be obtained so easily. It must be worked for, — studied for, — thought for, — and more than all, it must be prayed for."
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"The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge."
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"Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man."
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"Yet still, there are those special secret moments in our lives, when we smile unexpectedly-when all our forces are resolved. A woman can often see these moments in us, better than a man, better than we ourselves, even. When we know these moments, when we smile, when we are not on guard at all-these are the moments when our most important forces show themselves; whatever it is you are doing at such a moment, hold on to it, repeat it-for that certain smile is the best knowledge that we ever have of what our hidden forces are, and where they lie, and how they can be loosed."
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"Until they became conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious."
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"There are in fact two things, science and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance."
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"Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?"
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"Belief is not the beginning of knowledge - it is the end."
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"Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations."
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"They don't understand that a slice of the pie isn't the whole pie - but they wonder why they are always hungry"
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