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Their pupils and their little charges are not nourished and fed by what they learn: the learning is passed from hand to hand with only… — Michel de Montaigne
To begin with our knowledge grows in spots. ..What you first gain, ... is probably a small amount of new information, a few new definitions,… — William James
Philosophy attempts, not to discover new truths about the world, but to gain a clear view of what we already know and believe about it.… — Michael Dummett
The inclusion of consequences in the conception of what we have done is an acknowledgement that we are parts of the world, but the paradoxical… — Thomas Nagel
The external view [of agency] forces itself on us at the same time that we resist it. One way this occurs is through the gradual… — Thomas Nagel
Running gives me a clearer perspective on the world ... I've always seen the world by running, and that has allowed me to view things… — Grete Waitz
When we are face to face with truth, the point of view of Krishna, Buddha, Christ, or any other Prophet, is the same. When we… — Hazrat Inayat Khan
View life as a series of movie frames, the ending and meaning may not be apparent until the very end of the movie, and yet,… — Viktor E. Frankl
View your life from your funeral, looking back at your life experiences, what have you accomplished? What would you have wanted to accomplish but didn't?… — Viktor E. Frankl
The ultimate point of view is that there is nothing to understand, so when we try to understand, we are only indulging in acrobatics of… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
The intellect of most persons is harnessed by innumerable wants. Such a life is, from the spiritual point of view the lowest type of human… — Meher Baba
All humans are storytellers with their own unique point of view. When we understand this, we no longer feel the need to impose our story… — Miguel Angel Ruiz
Some spiritual traditions view the moment of birth as a passage from a state of wholeness and knowledge to a state of forgetting. In this… — Bernie Siegel
Evolution is the creation-myth of our age. By telling us our origin it shapes our views of what we are. It influences not just our… — Mary Midgley
Creationists often appeal to the facts of science to support their view, and evolutionists often appeal to philosophical assumptions from outside science. — Jonathan Sarfati
Perhaps generations of students of human evolution, including myself, have been flailing about in the dark; that our data base is too sparse, too slippery,… — David Pilbeam
Paleontologists [fossil experts] have paid an exorbitant price for Darwin's argument. We fancy ourselves as the only true students of life's history, yet to preserve… — Stephen Jay Gould
It is important how we view the youth of our nation. To simply consider them as new age voters will be a big mistake. They… — Narendra Modi
In my view, aiming at simplicity and lucidity is a moral duty of all intellectuals: lack of clarity is a sin, and pretentiousness is a… — Karl Popper
To be just, that is to say, to justify its existence, criticism should be partial, passionate and political, that is to say, written from an… — Charles Baudelaire

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