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“Hasn't knowledge only crippled me from seeing truth? Is knowledge itself illusory?”

Knowledge Seeing Truth Is Illusory Crippled

Author:Jiddu Krishnamurti

“God had brought me to my knees and made me acknowledge my own nothingness, and out of that knowledge I had been reborn. I was no longer the centre of my life and therefore I could see God in everything.”

Made God My Own Knowledge Seeing Humility Yoga Knees Acknowledge Nothingness Centre Easter Rebirth Spiritual Awakening Reborn

Author:Bede Griffiths

“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

“We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us, and the more we gain, the more is our desire; the more we see, the more we are capable of seeing.”

Inspirational Mind Desire Asks Change Knowledge Seeing Capable Gains Hunger Educational

Author:Maria Mitchell

“We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”

“Traditional scientific method has always been at the very best, 20 - 20 hindsight. It's good for seeing where you've been. It's good for testing the truth of what you think you know, but it can't tell you where you ought to go.”

Thinking Knows Science Knowledge Seeing Ought Method Traditional Testing Hindsight Scientific Method You Think You Know Zen Motorcycle Maintenance

Author:Robert M. Pirsig

“To see a world in a grain of sand And a heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, And eternity in an hour.”

“At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope it can be done, then they see it can be done--then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago.”

Source: The Secret Garden

“The eye sees what it brings the power to see.”

Eye Vision Knowledge Power Seeing

Author:Thomas Carlyle

“In every object there is inexhaustible meaning; the eye sees in it what the eye brings means of seeing.”

Mean Eye Knowledge Seeing Objects

Book:The French Revolution a History by Thomas Carlyle: The bastille

Source: The French Revolution a History by Thomas Carlyle: The bastille

“There is more to us than we know. If we can be made to see it, perhaps for the rest of our lives we will be unwilling to settle for less.”

Ifs Knows Life Made Education Vision Knowledge Knowing Learning Our Lives Seeing Settling Awe Unwilling

Author:Kurt Hahn

“Science is a mechanism, a way of trying to improve your knowledge of nature. It's a system for testing your thoughts against the universe, and seeing whether they match.”

Thinking Way Trying Science Universe Knowledge Seeing Accounts Mechanism Testing

Author:Isaac Asimov

“It will be contributing to bring forward the moment in which, seeing clearer into the nature of things, and having learnt to distinguish real knowledge from what has only the appearance of it, we shall be led to seek for exactness in every thing.”

Knows Real Moments Science Knowledge Seeing Appearance Contributing Exactness Real Knowledge

Author:Jean-Andre Deluc

“We find it hard to apply the knowledge of ourselves to our judgment of others. The fact that we are never of one kind, that we never love without reservations and never hate with all our being cannot prevent us from seeing others as wholly black or white.”

Love Kind Hard Facts Hate Black White Knowledge Seeing Judgment Reservations Black Or White Judgment Of Others

Author:Eric Hoffer

“The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.”

Source: Tempest-tost