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“Although humankind inherently "desires to know", if open access to, and unlimited development of, knowledge henceforth puts us all in clear danger of extinction, then common sense demands that we re-examine our reverence for knowledge.”

Ifs Knows Desire Common Knowledge Clear Danger Development Demand Access Common Sense Reverence Humankind Unlimited Extinction

Author:Bill Joy

“It is clear that there is no classification of the Universe that is not arbitrary and full of conjectures. The reason for this is very simple: we do not know what kind of thing the universe is.”

Knows Kind Reason Universe Simple Knowledge Clear Arbitrary Classification Conjecture

Author:Jorge Luis Borges

“It is what we imagine knowledge to be: dark, salt, clear, moving, utterly free, drawn from the cold hard mouth of the world, derived from the rocky breasts forever, flowing and drawn, and since our knowledge is historical, flowing, and flown.”

World Hard Moving Dark Knowledge Forever Clear Imagine Sea Cold Mouths Historical Breasts Salt Symbolism

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“From whence it is obvious to conclude that, since our Faculties are not fitted to penetrate into the internal Fabrick and real Essences of Bodies; but yet plainly discover to us the Being of a GOD, and the Knowledge of our selves, enough to lead us into a full and clear discovery of our Duty, and great Concernment, it will become us, as rational Creatures, to imploy those Faculties we have about what they are most adapted to, and follow the direction of Nature, where it seems to point us out the way.”

Way Real Self Enough God Body Seems Science Knowledge Clear Duty Creatures Discovery Essence Obvious Rational Internals Faculty Penetrate Adapted

Book:An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding (Complete)

Source: An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding (Complete)

“That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along.”

Way Understanding Realizing Knowledge Clear Obvious Finding Your Path Understanding Yourself

Author:Madeleine L'Engle

“Don't get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one.”

Ifs Stills Whole Problem Decision Views Knowledge Learning Clear Involved Flight Get Involved

Book:Notebooks, 1914-1916

Source: Notebooks, 1914-1916

“Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.”

Men Book Reading Knowledge Clear Meditation Profound Discourse Poor Richard Meditation Mind Yoga Meditation Daily Meditation Inspirational Meditation

Book:The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac

Source: The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac

“Solitary reading will enable a man to stuff himself with information, but without conversation his mind will become like a pond without an outlet-a mass of unhealthy stag-nature. It is not enough to harvest knowledge by study; the wind of talk must winnow it and blow away the chaff. Then will the clear, bright grains of wisdom be garnered, for our own use or that of others.”

Men Mind Enough Use Reading Stuff Knowledge Study Clear Information Wind Conversation Mass Blow Grain Solitary Harvest Outlets Unhealthy Ponds Stags

Author:William Matthews

“Try to put well in practice what you already know; and in so doing, you will in good time, discover the hidden things you now inquire about. Practice what you know, and it will help to make clear what now you do not know.”

Knows Trying Wells Helping Knowledge Practice Clear Good Times Doing You Hidden Things

Author:Rembrandt

“... in going over the history of all the inventions for which history could be obtained it became more and more clear that in addition to training and in addition to extensive knowledge, a natural quality of mind was also necessary.”

Mind Science Natural Quality Knowledge History Clear Training Invention

Author:Reginald Fessenden

“I also maintain that clear knowledge of natural science must be acquired, in the first instance, through mastery of medicine alone.”

Knows Firsts Science Natural Knowledge Clear Medicine Instance Mastery Natural Science

Author:Hippocrates

“We are apt to think we know what time is because we can measure it, but no sooner do we reflect upon it than that illusion goes. So it appears that the range of the measureable is not the range of the knowable. There are things we can measure, like time, but yet our minds do not grasp their meaning. There are things we cannot measure, like happiness or pain, and yet their meaning is perfectly clear to us.”

Thinking Knows Mind Pain Science Time Knowledge Clear Illusion Range Measurement

Author:Robert Morrison MacIver

“In every case, the remedy is to take action. Get clear about exactly what it is that you need to learn and exactly what you need to do to learn it. BEING CLEAR KILLS FEAR. Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world.”

Knows World Needs Action Fear Difficult Business Knowledge Cases Learning Clear Lessons Remedy Thyself Know Thyself

Author:Miguel de Cervantes

“And all these questions I ask myself. It is not in a spirit of curiosity. I cannot be silent. About myself I need know nothing. Here all is clear. No, all is not clear. But the discourse must go on. So one invents obscurities. Rhetoric.”

Thinking Knows Needs Spirit Asks Knowledge Clear Goes On Silent Curiosity Rhetoric Discourse Obscurity

Book:Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable

Source: Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable

“Knowledge is a sacred cow, and my problem will be how we can milk her while keeping clear of her horns.”

Problem Knowledge Clear Management Sacred Milk Cows Horns Sacred Cows

Author:Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

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