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“Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.”

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Book:Modern Man in Search of a Soul

Source: Modern Man in Search of a Soul

“Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.”

Quality Knowledge Learning Intellectual Direct Independent Management Abstraction

Book:LILA An Inquriry into Morals

Source: LILA An Inquriry into Morals

“If we are to survive, we must have ideas, vision, and courage. These things are rarely produced by committees. Everything that matters in our intellectual and moral life begins with an individual confronting his own mind and conscience in a room by himself.”

Ifs Mind Ideas Matter Individual Rooms Moral Vision Knowledge Courage Learning Intellectual Conscience Management Committees Confronting Moral Compass Moral Life

Author:Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

“Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.”

Inspirational Long Loses Common Knowledge Technology Information Intellectual Common Sense Too Much Information Information Society Data Collection Common Decency Gathering Data Information Sharing Gathering Information

Author:Gertrude Stein

“Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.”

“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

“An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.”

Mind Responsibility Knowledge Watches Intellectual Intelligent Intelligence Intellectualism Wrist Watches

Author:Albert Camus

“To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of eternal things; to knowledge, the rational knowledge of temporal things.”

Wisdom Knowledge Eternal Intellectual Rational Apprehension Temporal Things

Author:Saint Augustine

“The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self.”

Men Giving Self Purpose Perfect Knowledge Highest Intellectual Mastery Self Knowledge Inner Self Cultivation

Author:Novalis

“All teaching and all intellectual learning come about from already existing knowledge.”

Knowledge Teaching Intellectual

Book:The Complete Works of Aristotle: The Revised Oxford Translation, One-Volume Digital Edition

Source: The Complete Works of Aristotle: The Revised Oxford Translation, One-Volume Digital Edition

“I believe, indeed, that overemphasis on the purely intellectual attitude, often directed solely to the practical and factual, in our education, has led directly to the impairment of ethical values.”

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Book:Ideas and Opinions

Source: Ideas and Opinions

“A science is not mere knowledge, it is knowledge which has undergone a process of intellectual digestion. It is the grasp of many things brought together in one, and hence is its power; for, properly speaking, it is Science that is power, not Knowledge.”

Together Science Process Knowledge Intellectual Mere Intellect Digestion

Book:Discourses on the Scope and Nature of University Education: Addressed to the Catholics of Dublin

Source: Discourses on the Scope and Nature of University Education: Addressed to the Catholics of Dublin

“But if we laugh with derision, we will never understand. Human intellectual capacity has not altered for thousands of years so far as we can tell. If intelligent people invested intense energy in issues that now seem foolish to us, then the failure lies in our understanding of their world, not in their distorted perceptions.”

Source: The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History

“Geology holds the keys of one of the kingdoms of nature; and it cannot be said that a science which extends our Knowledge, and by consequence our Power, over a third part of nature, holds a low place among intellectual employments.”

Said Science Knowledge Keys Intellectual Lows Consequence Thirds Kingdoms Employment Geology

Book:Vindiciæ Geologicæ: The Connexion of Geology with Religion, Explained in an Inaugural Lecture Delivered Before University of Oxford, May 15, 1819, on the Endowment of Readership in Geology

Source: Vindiciæ Geologicæ: The Connexion of Geology with Religion, Explained in an Inaugural Lecture Delivered Before University of Oxford, May 15, 1819, on the Endowment of Readership in Geology

“During periods of relaxation after concentrated intellectual activity, the intuitive mind seems to take over and can produce the sudden clarifying insights which give so much joy and delight.”

Giving Mind Seems Truth Joy Knowledge Produce Periods Activity Intellectual Delight Insight Intuition Relaxation Intuitive Clarifying

Author:Fritjof Capra

“Men are more readily contented with no intellectual light than with a little; and wherever they have been taught to acquire some knowledge in order to please others, they have most generally gone on to acquire more, to please themselves.”

Men Littles Has Beens Light Order Knowledge Gone Taught Please Intellectual Acquire Self Knowledge

Book:Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

“When the panting and thirsting soul first drinks the delicious waters of truth, when the moral and intellectual tastes and desires first seize the fragrant fruits that flourish in the garden of knowledge, then does the child catch a glimpse and foretaste of heaven.”

Firsts Children Doe Soul Desire Heaven Water Moral Knowledge Drink Taste Intellectual Garden Fruit Delicious Glimpse

Book:Slavery

Source: Slavery

“If you have insight, you use your inner eye, your inner ear, to pierce to the heart of things, and have no need of intellectual knowledge.”

Ifs Needs Heart Use Eye Understanding Knowledge Perception Intellectual Ears Insight Intuition Intellect Taoism Wise Man Once Said Pierce

Author:Zhuangzi