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“To appear to be on the inside and know more than others about what is going on is a great temptation for most people. It is a rare person who is willing to seem to know less than he does ... Somehow, people seem to feel that it is belittling to their importance not to know more than other people.”

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Author:Eleanor Roosevelt

“The attempt to satisfy greed is like drinking salty water when thirsty. When lost in greed we look outward rather than inward for satisfaction, yet we never find enough to fill the emptiness we wish to escape. The real hunger we feel is for knowledge of our true nature.”

Feels Looks Real Enough Lost Wish Water Nature Knowledge Drinking Greed Hunger Satisfaction Emptiness Inward True Nature Thirsty Salty

Book:The Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep

Source: The Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep

“Today a man of knowledge might well feel as though he were God transformed into an animal.”

Men Feels Wells Might Today Animal Knowledge Transformed

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“It is up to my spirit to find the truth. But how? Grave uncertainty, each time the spirit feels beyond its own comprehension; whenit, the explorer, is altogether to obscure land that it must search and where all its baggage is of no use. To search? That is not all: to create.”

Feels Use Spirit Knowledge Creativity Land Graves Uncertainty Obscure Comprehension Baggage Explorers

Author:Marcel Proust

“Who you are and what you know when you are born is everything that you need to know to thrive. You are born with a sense of self and a sense of wanting self to feel good and the mechanisms to bring it about.”

Knows Needs Feels Self Born Knowledge Who You Are Happy Feel Good Thrive Mechanism Being Happy True Happiness Sense Of Self

Author:Esther Hicks

“A king that would not feel his crown too heavy for him, must wear it every day; but if he think it too light, he knoweth not of what metal it is made.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Made Light Knowledge Kings Heavy Metals Crowns

Book:The works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England, in five volumes

Source: The works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England, in five volumes

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

Knows Feels Littles Age Literature Knowledge Conscious Birthday

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

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

“...I feel most deeply that the whole subject is too profound for the human intellect. A dog might as well speculate on the mind of Newton.— Let each man hope & believe what he can.—”

Men Feels Mind Believe Humans Wells Whole Might Knowledge Subjects Dog Profound Intellect Newton Natural Selection

Book:The Correspondence of Charles Darwin:

Source: The Correspondence of Charles Darwin:

“Perfect love casts out fear. Where there is love there are no demands, no expectations, no dependency. I do not demand that you make me happy; my happiness does not lie in you. If you were to leave me, I will not feel sorry for myself; I enjoy your company immensely, but I do not cling.”

Source: Awareness: Conversations with the Masters

“People don't want to think. And the deeper they get into trouble, the less they want to think. But by some sort of instinct, they feel that they ought to and it makes them feel guilty. So they'll bless and follow anyone who gives them a justification for not thinking. Anyone who makes a virtue - a highly intellectual virtue - out of what they know to be their sin, their weakness and their guilt.”

People Thinking Knows Want Giving Feels Sin Knowledge Knowing Virtue Trouble Ought Blessing Intellectual Weakness Guilt Instinct Following Deeper Intellect Guilty Bless Followers Justification

Author:Ayn Rand

“I don't feel frightened by not knowing things, by being lost in the mysterious universe without any purpose - which is the way it really is, as far as I can tell. Possibly. It doesn't frighten me.”

“Remember that you are a teacher, you are helping people, making them feel safer, taking them from fear to love, from ignorance to knowledge.”

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Author:Stuart Wilde

“I have lived much of my life among molecules. They are good company. I tell my students to try to know molecules, so well that when they have some question involving molecules, they can ask themselves, What would I do if I were that molecule? I tell them, Try to feel like a molecule; and if you work hard, who knows? Some day you may get to feel like a big molecule!”

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Author:George Wald

“We have no knowledge, that is, no general principles drawn from the contemplation of particular facts, but what has been built up by pleasure, and exists in us by pleasure alone. The Man of Science, the Chemist and Mathematician, whatever difficulties and disgusts they may have had to struggle with, know and feel this. However painful may be the objects with which the Anatomist's knowledge is connected, he feels that his knowledge is pleasure; and where he has no pleasure he has no knowledge.”

Source: Lyrical Ballads and other Poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth (Including Their Thoughts On Poetry Principles and Secrets): Collections of Poetry which marked the beginning of the English Romantic movement in literature, including poems The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, The Dungeon, The Nightingale, Dejection: An Ode

“When a person acts without knowledge of what he thinks, feels, needs or wants, he does not yet have the option of choosing to act differently.”

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Author:Clark Moustakas

“...I believe there exists, & I feel within me, an instinct for the truth, or knowledge or discovery, of something of the same nature as the instinct of virtue, & that our having such an instinct is reason enough for scientific researches without any practical results ever ensuing from them.”

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Book:The Correspondence of Charles Darwin: 1847-1850

Source: The Correspondence of Charles Darwin: 1847-1850

“It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment. When I have clarified and exhausted a subject, then I turn away from it, in order to go into darkness again; the never-satisfied man is so strange if he has completed a structure, then it is not in order to dwell in it peacefully,but in order to begin another. I imagine the world conqueror must feel thus, who, after one kingdom is scarcely conquered, stretches out his arms for others.”

“I feel that, in a sense, the writer knows nothing any longer. He has no moral stance. He offers the reader the contents of his own head, a set of options and imaginative alternatives. His role is that of a scientist, whether on safari or in his laboratory, faced with an unknown terrain or subject. All he can do is to devise various hypotheses and test them against the facts.”

Knows Feels Art Facts Science Can Do Moral Knowledge Roles Subjects Reader Offers Tests Scientist Various Alternatives Hypothesis Imaginative Laboratory Stance Terrain Safari

Author:J. G. Ballard

“And this is the ultimate lesson that our knowledge of the mode of transmission of typhus has taught us: Man carries on his skin a parasite, the louse. Civilization rids him of it. Should man regress, should he allow himself to resemble a primitive beast, the louse begins to multiply again and treats man as he deserves, as a brute beast. This conclusion would have endeared itself to the warm heart of Alfred Nobel. My contribution to it makes me feel less unworthy of the honour which you have conferred upon me in his name.”

“If physicists could not quote in the text, they would not feel that much was lost with respect to advancement of knowledge of the natural world. If historians could not quote, they would deem it a disastrous impediment to the communication of knowledge about the past. A luxury for physicists, quotation is a necessity for historians, indispensable to historiography.”

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Author:J. H. Hexter

“I feel I'm able to serve my customer by knowing what she or he wants. One of the ways I'm able to do this is through my website, and email: people give me great ideas, tell me what they want, what they don't want. It's really instrumental, and helps me stay in touch with people.”

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Author:Kathy Ireland

“Be for ever a student. He and he alone is an old man who feels that he has learnt enough and has need for no more knowledge.”

Men Needs Feels Enough Knowledge Students Old Man More Knowledge

Author:Sivananda

“I feel, sometimes, as the renaissance man must have felt in finding new riches at every point and in the certainty that unexplored areas of knowledge and experience await at every turn.”

Men Feels Sometimes Science Turns Felt Knowledge Findings Areas Experience Riches Certainty Renaissance Unexplored Absolute Certainty Knowledge And Experience Renaissance Man

Author:Polykarp Kusch

“You can always draw as well as you know how to. I flatter myself that I feel more than I express on canvas; but I know that is not so.”

Knows Feels Wells Knowledge Know How Draws Canvas

Book:William Morris Hunt on painting and drawing

Source: William Morris Hunt on painting and drawing

“Now I begin to feel that that all that is important comes in quietness and waiting; activity should be only the working out, the digesting and putting forth of what one learned, so that one may become empty again to receive more.”

Feels Should May Important Spiritual Waiting Knowledge Learning Becoming Activity Quiet Empty Work Out Spiritual Wisdom Receiving Quietness Peace And Quiet

Author:Rodney Collin