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“Only by showing the world the cataclysmic cost of a world divided can it appreciate the wonders of life and endless possibilities of a world united.”

Book:The Great Ship of Knowledge, Vol. 1: Learning Earth's Deathly History

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“Consider the Magi. Arabian astrologers, for years they had bound themselves to study what they half-understood. They studied the planets and stars, not for mere facts and figures about the planets, but because they pursued deeper meaning. They were not "collecting data," building a bank of comprehensive information. They attended to the stars, we may surmise, in a loving and wondering search for wisdom: wisdom of the sort that comes to expression in a harrowing pilgrimage together beyond Arabia, across trackless wastes, across tense racial and political boundaries, into the unknown to find a foreign king to whom they deemed a certain star to belong, a king worth worshipping with their best gifts--treasures themselves fraught with portent.”

Knowing Epiphany Epistemology Magi

Book:A Little Manual for Knowing

Source: A Little Manual for Knowing

“Knowing' is painful because after it happens I can't stay in the same place and be comfortable. I am no longer the same person I was before”

Inspirational Growth Change Knowing Self Help Therapy Growth Quotes

Author:Gloria Anzaldúa

“Every Wise King has six councils of elders, Attention, Knowing, Silence, Peace, Order, and Solitude. With these six he rules as the seventh hand in the council chambers as Understanding, making him the wisest of them all but a Fool as his Prince”

Wisdom Silence Knowledge Knowing

Author:Ben Jr Grey

“Knowing is giving beliefs credibility beyond just imagining, assuming, or supporting an acquired thought learned casually from other people.”

Knowing Assuming Beliefs Credibility Learned Imagining Supporting Acquired Casually

Book:Life Is A Circus

Source: Life Is A Circus

“Anything you take responsibility for, you will know.”

Responsibility Knowing Responsible Know Meir Ezra Knowingness

Author:Meir Ezra

“I felt so damn happy all of sudden, the way old Phoebe kept going around and around. I was damn near bawling, I felt so damn happy, if you want to know the truth. I don't know why. It was just that she looked so damn nice, the way she kept going around and around, in her blue coat and all. God, I wish you could've been there.”

Truth Happiness Wish Knowing Protection Feeling Why Niceness Phoebe Carousel

Book:THE CATCHER IN THE RYE

Source: THE CATCHER IN THE RYE

“What am I? How am I connected? What is my purpose? What is all of this, felt in the flesh? Why is it so beautiful? What is beautiful? Why do I not know? What else don't I know? When will I know it? Will I ever know? Would knowing be too much?”

Life Self Purpose Beauty Knowledge Knowing Meaning

Book:Dead Astronauts

Source: Dead Astronauts

“I recognise the place, I feel at home here, but I don't belong. I am of, and not of, this place.”

Home Knowing Belonging Feeling Places

Book:A New World Order : Selected Essays

Source: A New World Order : Selected Essays

“The secret is not in your hand or your eye or your voice, my aunt told me once. The secret is in your heart. Of course, she said, knowing that doesn't make it any easier. —Secret Heart”

Heart Eye Voice Secret Knowing Difficulty Aunt Hand Easiness Secret Heart

Book:Still Mostly True: Collected Stories & Drawings

Source: Still Mostly True: Collected Stories & Drawings

“Of course I already know the best thing to do, but it'll have to wait a little while longer. I'm still convinced I can get my own way. —Best Thing”

Waiting Knowing Convincing Best Thing Of Course A Little Longer It Ll Have To Wait My Own Way The Best Thing To Do

Book:Theories of Everything

Source: Theories of Everything

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