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“someday we will regard our children not as creatures to manipulate or to change but rather as messengers from a world we once deeply knew, but which we have long since forgotten, who can reveal to us more about the true secrets of life, and also our own lives, than our parents were ever able to.”

Source: For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence

“The share we have in the knowledge of truth, such as it is, has not been acquired by our own powers. God has taught ushis wonderful secrets; our faith is not of our acquiring, it is purely the gift of another's bounty.”

God Secret Knowledge Wonderful Share Taught Bounty

Author:Michel de Montaigne

“Since [man] is infinitely removed from comprehending the extremes, the end of things and their beginning are hopelessly hidden from him in an impenetrable secret; he is equally incapable of seeing the nothing from which he was made, and the infinite in which he is swallowed up.”

Men Made Ends Secret Knowledge Seeing Infinite Extremes Infinity Incapable Comprehending

Book:Pascal's Pensees

Source: Pascal's Pensees

“Because systems of mass communication can communicate only officially acceptable levels of reality, no one can know the extent of the secret unconscious life. No one in America can know what will happen. No one is in real control.”

Knows Life Real Wisdom Reality Happens America Ability Levels Secret Knowledge Power Acceptance Communication Mass Communicate Unconscious Acceptable Mass Communication

Book:The Essential Ginsberg

Source: The Essential Ginsberg

“I learnt the verbs of will, and had my secret; The code of night tapped on my tongue; What had been one was many sounding minded.”

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Book:The Poems of Dylan Thomas

Source: The Poems of Dylan Thomas

“Yet still, there are those special secret moments in our lives, when we smile unexpectedly-when all our forces are resolved. A woman can often see these moments in us, better than a man, better than we ourselves, even. When we know these moments, when we smile, when we are not on guard at all-these are the moments when our most important forces show themselves; whatever it is you are doing at such a moment, hold on to it, repeat it-for that certain smile is the best knowledge that we ever have of what our hidden forces are, and where they lie, and how they can be loosed.”

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Book:The Timeless Way of Building

Source: The Timeless Way of Building

“It is they [men of science] who hold the secret of the mysterious property of the mind by which error ministers to truth, and truth slowly but irrevocably prevails. Theirs is the logic of discovery, the demonstration of the advance of knowledge and the development of ideas, which as the earthly wants and passions of men remain almost unchanged, are the charter of progress, and the vital spark in history.”

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Book:Lectures on Modern History

Source: Lectures on Modern History

“Penetrating so many secrets, we cease to believe in the unknowable. But there it sits nevertheless, calmly licking its chops”

Believe Art Science Secret Knowledge Cease Nevertheless Licking

Book:Minority Report

Source: Minority Report

“The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love.”

Love Secret Knowledge Garden Plant Gardening Grandchildren Breeding Secret Love Scientific Knowledge Gardening And God Spineless

Author:Luther Burbank

“From now on I hope always to educate myself as best I can. But lacking this, in future I will relaxedly turn back to my secret mind to see what it has observed when I thought I was sitting this one out. We never sit anything out.”

Mind I Can Turns Secret Knowledge Sitting Educate Lacking

Author:Ray Bradbury

“Alchemists turned into chemists when they stopped keeping secrets.”

Secret Knowledge Management Alchemist Chemist Keeping Secrets

Author:Eric S. Raymond

“Books have always a secret influence on the understanding; we cannot at pleasure obliterate ideas; he that reads books of science, thogh without any fixed desire of improvement, will grow more knowing.”

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Book:The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D..: The Adventurer and Idler

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D..: The Adventurer and Idler

“It is a right, yes a duty, to search in cautious manner for the numbers, sizes, and weights, the norms for everything [God] has created. For He himself has let man take part in the knowledge of these things ... For these secrets are not of the kind whose research should be forbidden; rather they are set before our eyes like a mirror so that by examining them we observe to some extent the goodness and wisdom of the Creator.”

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Author:Johannes Kepler

“It was the secrets of heaven and earth that I desired to learn.”

Knows Earth Science Heaven Secret Knowledge Heaven And Earth Desire For Knowledge

Author:Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

“The End of our Foundation is the knowledge of Causes; and secret motions of things; and the enlarging of the bounds of Human Empire, to the effecting of all things possible.”

Knows Humans Ends Science Causes Secret Knowledge All Things Accounts Foundation Bounds Empires

Author:Francis Bacon

“To unfold the secret laws and relations of those high faculties of thought by which all beyond the merely perceptive knowledge of the world and of ourselves is attained or matured, is a object which does not stand in need of commendation to a rational mind.”

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Book:An Investigation of the Laws of Thought: On which are Founded the Mathematical Theories of Logic and Probabilities

Source: An Investigation of the Laws of Thought: On which are Founded the Mathematical Theories of Logic and Probabilities

“We do not ask what hope of gain makes a little bird warble, since we know that it takes delight in singing because it is for that very singing that the bird was made, so there is no need to ask why the human mind undertakes such toil in seeking out these secrets of the heavens. ... And just as other animals, and the human body, are sustained by food and drink, so the very spirit of Man, which is something distinct from Man, is nourished, is increased, and in a sense grows up on this diet of knowledge, and is more like the dead than the living if it is touched by no desire for these things.”

“Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.”

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Author:Seneca the Younger

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