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“The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.”

“We are approaching a new age of synthesis. Knowledge cannot be merely a degree or a skill... it demands a broader vision, capabilities in critical thinking and logical deduction without which we cannot have constructive progress.”

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Author:Li Ka-shing

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

“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.”

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Author:Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

“We know what we are, but know not what we may be.”

“The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency - the belief that the here and now is all there is.”

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Book:Closing of the American Mind

Source: Closing of the American Mind

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

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Author:Thomas Carlyle

“Education is the mother of leadership.”

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Book:Freedom and the Liberal Arts

Source: Freedom and the Liberal Arts

“Men of vision caught glimpses of truth and beauty shining aloft like stars: and in these glimpses was a new hope for the unification of mankind through enlightenment.”

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Author:Robert Falconer

“Don't help me or serve me, but let me see it once, because I need it. Don't work for my happiness, my brothers — show me yours — show me that it is possible — show me your achievement — and the knowledge will give me courage for mine.”

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Author:Ayn Rand

“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.”

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Author:Kurt Hahn

“The regularity with which we conclude that further advances in a particular field are impossible seems equaled only by the regularity with which events prove that we are of too limited vision. And it always seems to be those who have the fullest opportunity to know who are the most limited in view. What, then, is the trouble? I think that one answer should be: we do not realize sufficiently that the unknown is absolutely infinite, and that new knowledge is always being produced.”

“My pride and my power of vision were all that I owned when I started - and whatever I achieved, was achieved by means of them. Both are greater now. Now I have the knowledge of the superlative value I had missed: of my right to be proud of my vision. The rest is mine to reach.”

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Book:Atlas Shrugged

Source: Atlas Shrugged

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

Source: Tempest-tost