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Never by reflection, but only by doing is self- knowledge possible to one. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Today secular philosophers call that kind of divine invocation God of the gaps-which comes in handy, because there has never been a shortage of gaps… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
Whenever people have used religious documents to make accurate predictions about our base knowledge of the physical world, they have been famously wrong. — Neil deGrasse Tyson
The period of greatest gain in knowledge and experience is the most difficult period in one's life. — Dalai Lama
No human being, past the thoughtless age of boyhood, will wantonly murder any creature which holds its life by the same tenure that he does. — Henry David Thoreau
Of all the frictional resistances, the one that most retards human movement is ignorance, what Buddha called 'the greatest evil in the world.' The friction… — Nikola Tesla
The fact that no limits exist to the destructiveness of this weapon [the 'Super', i.e. the hydrogen bomb] makes its very existence and the knowledge… — Enrico Fermi
When you are doing things together, you are inside the collective mind, and share psychic knowledge with each other. That is how you become one. — Dharma Mittra
I am only here to share my knowledge with others and to help them make rapid progress on the path of yoga. — Dharma Mittra
..the self-knowledge that I am talking about is concrete, verifiable and is tangible like science itself and completely understandable in rational terms. — Nirmala Srivastava
Economic development over the past two centuries has taken most of humanity from lives that were brutal, ignorant and short, to personal health and security,… — Ross Garnaut
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… — Ayn Rand
Each of us must rededicate ourselves to serving the common good. We are a community. Our individual Fates are linked; our futures intertwined; and if… — Jimmy Carter
Each of us in our own way can try to spread compassion into people's hearts. Western civilizations these days place great importance on filling the… — Dalai Lama
In this time of globalization, with all its advantages, the poor are the most vulnerable to having their traditions, relationships and knowledge and skills ignored… — James Wolfensohn
Greece appears to be the fountain of knowledge; Rome of elegance — Samuel Johnson
If a man keeps cherishing his old knowledge so as continually to be acquiring new, he may be a teacher of others. — Confucius
Nothing will ever please me, no matter how excellent or beneficial, if I must retain the knowledge of it to myself. . . . .… — Seneca the Younger
The worst way to read, he said, is with the thought that you do not have enough time. The only way to read is in… — Gabriel Josipovici
Socialism is young and has made errors. Many times revolutionaries lack the knowledge and intellectual courage needed to meet the task of developing the new… — Che Guevara

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