"Most of the book deals with things we……" — Huston Smith
"Most of the book deals with things we already know yet never learn."
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81 Quotes by Huston Smith
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I simply wanted to experience the presence of this man who had revolutionized my understanding. After a while we sat…
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Practice giving things away, not just things you don't care about, but things you do like.
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In the post-individualistic era, science and spirituality will become allies, and human beings will realize a vast potentiality now only…
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We all carry it within us: supreme strength, the fullness of wisdom, unquenchable joy. It is never thwarted, and cannot…
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One reason education undoes belief is its teaching of evolution; Darwin's own drift from orthodoxy to agnosticism was symptomatic. Martin…
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Built into human makeup is a longing for a 'more' that the world of everyday experience cannot requite.
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In nature, the emphasis is in what is rather than what ought to be.
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When there are miles to go before we sleep, altered traits are more important than altered states.
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Institutions are not pretty. Show me a pretty government. Healing is wonderful, but the American Medical Association? Learning is wonderful,…
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Every society and religion has rules, for both have moral laws. And the essence of morality consists, as in art,…
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Human intelligence is a reflection of the intelligence that produces everything. In knowing, we are simply extending the intelligence that…
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First of all, my persuasion is what really breeds violence is political differences. But because religion serves as the soul…
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If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if…
— Saint Augustine
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Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what…
— Richard Bach
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Learning is finding out what you already know.
— Richard Bach
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Unlike curing cancer or heart disease, we already know how to beat hunger: food.
— Mario Batali
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Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious. The Unconscious by definition is what you are not conscious of. But the Analysts…
— Saul Bellow
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There are some people who, if they don't already know, you can't tell 'em.
— Yogi Berra
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I listen to music every day for study reasons, and I confess that I have very little knowledge of what…
— Andrea Bocelli
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You don't need to spend tens of millions of dollars on political consultants to tell you what you think when…
— John Bolton
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You know, people call mystery novels or thrillers 'puzzles.' I never understood that, because when I buy a puzzle, I…
— Harlan Coben
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When you talk, you repeat what you already know; when you listen, you often learn something.
— Jared Sparks
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You've been here before, you already know how it goes, you chose this, you know, it's supposed to be over
— Unknown Author
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All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure. You can "already know for sure"…
— Mark Twain
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