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You think you KNOW when you learn, are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can… — Alan Perlis
It is clear, then, that wisdom is knowledge having to do with certain principles and causes. But now, since it is this knowledge that we… — Aristotle
THE SUFFERING OF GENIUS AND ITS VALUE. The artistic genius desires to give pleasure, but if his mind is on a very high plane he… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Put bluntly, the ego is not an obstruction to Spirit, but a radiant manifestation of Spirit. All Forms are not other than Emptiness, including the… — Ken Wilber
Many psychologists ... thought by turning their attention to their own consciousness to be able to explain what happened when we were thnking. Or they… — Wilhelm Wundt
Some say that everything that is called a psychical law is nothing but the psychological reflex of physical combinations, which is made up of sensations… — Wilhelm Wundt
To regard such a positive mental science [psychology] as rising above the sphere of history, and establishing the permanent and unchanging laws of human nature,… — Robin G. Collingwood
It is important that you don't let your opponent impose his style of play on you. A part of that begins mentally. At the chessboard… — Viswanathan Anand
To speak of certain government and establishment institutions as 'the system' is to speak correctly . . . They are sustained by structural relationships even… — Robert M. Pirsig
There are as many archetypes as there are typical situations in life. Endless repetition has engraved these experiences into our psychic constitution, not in the… — Carl Jung
There has always been a certain romanticism associated with the airline business. We must avoid its perpetuation at Eastern at all costs. — Frank Borman
By listening to certain words as a child listens to the sea in a seashell, a word dreamer hears the murmur of a world of… — Gaston Bachelard
The First Amendment reads more like a dream than a law, and no other nation, so far as I know, has been crazy enough to… — Kurt Vonnegut
If there is any realm where distinction is especially difficult, it is the realm of childhood memories, the realm of beloved images harbored in memory… — Gaston Bachelard
Each instrument has something to say to you. It's got its own character. Each horn has its own character and will say to you certain… — Jerome Richardson
HOSPITALITY, n. The virtue which induces us to feed and lodge certain persons who are not in need of food and lodging. — Ambrose Bierce
Winning Strategists are certain of triumph before seeking a challenge. Losing Strategists are certain to challenge before seeking a triumph. — Sun Tzu
Once there is a certain degree of Presence, of still and alert attention in human beings' perceptions, they can sense the divine life essence, the… — Eckhart Tolle
Nothing can cost you someone you love. The only thing that can cost you your husband is if you believe a thought. That's how you… — Byron Katie
He decided then that he would love her forever no matter what came to pass. It was not so much a matter of deciding as… — David Guterson

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