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“We must now surrender to the obligation to understand and to care. We must surrender ourselves to becoming conscious, thinking members of the human race. We must put down the temptation to powerlessness and surrender to the questions of the moment.”

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Author:Joan D. Chittister

“Knowledge has two extremes. The first is the pure natural ignorance in which all men find themselves at birth. The other extreme is that reached by great minds, who, having run through all that men can know, find they know nothing, and come back again to that same natural ignorance from which they set out; this is a learned ignorance which is conscious of itself.”

Knows Men Mind Firsts Two Running Natural Knowledge Ignorance Birth Pure Conscious Extremes Self Knowledge Back Again Great Minds Two Extremes

Author:Blaise Pascal

“Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little.”

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Book:D. H. Lawrence: Late Essays and Articles

Source: D. H. Lawrence: Late Essays and Articles

“One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.”

Source: The Collected Works of C.G. Jung: Alchemical studies

“Until they became conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.”

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Author:George Orwell

“The more we learn about the world, and the deeper our learning, the more conscious, specific, and articulate will be our knowledge of what we do not know, our knowledge of our ignorance”

Knows World Knowledge Ignorance Conscious Deeper

Book:Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge

Source: Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge

“Every extension of knowledge arises from making the conscious the unconscious.”

Knowledge Conscious Arise Unconscious Extensions Conscious And Unconscious

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“Well I am certainly wiser than this man. It is only too likely that neither of us has any knowledge to boast of; but he thinks that he knows something which he does not know, whereas I am quite conscious of my ignorance. At any rate it seems that I am wiser than he is to this small extent, that I do not think that I know what I do not know.”

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Author:Socrates