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“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.”

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Book:The Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep

Source: The Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep

“We know more from nature than we can at will communicate.”

Knows Nature Knowledge Communicate

Book:Nature

Source: Nature

“We humans think we are smart, but an orchid, for example, knows how to produce noble, symmetrical flowers, and a snail knows how to make a beautiful, well-proportioned shell. Compared with their knowledge, ours is not worth much at all. We should bow deeply before the orchid and the snail and join our palms reverently before the monarch butterfly and the magnolia tree. The feeling of respect for all species will help us recognize the noblest nature in ourselves.”

Source: Thich Nhat Hanh: Essential Writings

“Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing.”

Source: The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley

“I believe that it is better to tell the truth than to lie. I believe that it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe that it is better to know than be ignorant.”

Knows Inspirational Believe Truth Lying I Believe Nature Knowledge Human Nature Slave Ignorant Telling The Truth Be A Slave

Author:H. L. Mencken

“I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.”

“Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.”

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Book:The birth of tragedy and The genealogy of morals

Source: The birth of tragedy and The genealogy of morals

“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.”

“For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.”

“The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.”

“To a dull mind all of nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light.”

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Book:A Year with Emerson: A Daybook

Source: A Year with Emerson: A Daybook

“You must not know too much or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and watercraft; a certain free-margin , or even vagueness - ignorance, credulity - helps your enjoyment of these things.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Walt Whitman (Illustrated)

“When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choice of a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious, from somewhere within ourselves. In the important decisions of personal life, we should be governed, I think, by the deep inner needs of our nature.”

“Nature has given us the seeds of knowledge, not knowledge itself.”

Given Nature Knowledge Seeds Self Knowledge

Author:Seneca the Younger

“Realization is not knowledge about the universe, but the living experience of the nature of the universe. Until we have such living experience, we remain dependent on examples, and subject to their limits.”

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Book:The Crystal and the Way of Light: Sutra, Tantra, and Dzogchen

Source: The Crystal and the Way of Light: Sutra, Tantra, and Dzogchen

“Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so called scientific knowledge.”

“Man, being the servant and interpreter of Nature, can do and understand so much and so much only as he has observed in fact or thought of the course of nature; beyond this he neither knows anything nor can do anything.”

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Book:Selected Philosophical Works

Source: Selected Philosophical Works

“Now, in the development of our knowledge of the workings of Nature out of the tremendously complex assemblage of phenomena presented to the scientific inquirer, mathematics plays in some respects a very limited, in others a very important part. As regards the limitations, it is merely necessary to refer to the sciences connected with living matter, and to the ologies generally, to see that the facts and their connections are too indistinctly known to render mathematical analysis practicable, to say nothing of the complexity.”