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What is true for you is what you have observed yourself. And when you lose that, you have lost everything.
L. Ron Hubbard
All knowledge is a matter of degree.
Lewis Thomas
The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.
Albert Einstein
Knowledge is power.
Francis Bacon
The more that you know, the more you realize that there is to learn.
Unknown
Knowledge is not a thing to be memorized but a reality to be discovered.
Unknown
The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.
Plutarch
The only way to do great work is to love what you do.
Steve Jobs
The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
Voltaire
To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.
Confucius
Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
Plato
The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.
William S. Burroughs
The only thing that I know is that I know nothing.
Socrates
The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Belief is the wound that knowledge heals.
Ursula K. Le Guin
Belief is the psychological state in which an individual holds a proposition or premise to be true.
Wikipedia
Belief is the antithesis of knowing.
Terence McKenna
Belief is the enemy of truth.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.
Lillian Hellman
Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing.
Blaise Pascal
Belief is a powerful tool, but it is not a substitute for knowledge.
Lawrence M. Krauss
Belief is a necessary condition for knowledge, but not a sufficient one.
Bertrand Russell
The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.
Erich Fromm
The only certainty is that we know nothing for certain.
Plato
Certainty is the mother of quiet and repose, and uncertainty the cause of variance and contentions.
Edward Coke
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
Voltaire
The greater the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.
Ralph W. Sockman
The only thing I know is that I know nothing.
Socrates
Certainty is the enemy of growth.
Unknown
The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me.
Meister Eckhart
We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
Anaïs Nin
The only true voyage of discovery, the only fountain of Eternal Youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to behold the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to behold the hundred universes that each of them beholds.
Marcel Proust
The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
The mind is everything; what you think, you become.
Buddha
The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
Bertrand Russell
The only way to deal with fear is to face it head-on.
Bear Grylls
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.
William James
Justification is the key to knowledge.
Plato
Belief beyond evidence is the basis of all social progress, and the evidence must be sought first in the heart and mind of the believer.
Robertson Davies
The belief that one knows what is not so is the most dangerous of all delusions.
William James
The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
The more we know, the more we realize how much we don't know.
Aristotle
The unexamined life is not worth living.
Socrates
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
Oscar Wilde
The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.
Gloria Steinem
The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.
Ayn Rand
The truth is like a lion; you don't have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.
Augustine of Hippo
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.
Winston Churchill
The truth is more important than the facts.
Frank Lloyd Wright
The truth is always an insult or a joke, lies are generally tastier.
Bukowski
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
Socrates
Doubt is the origin of wisdom.
René Descartes
Skepticism is the first step towards truth.
Denis Diderot
The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.
Christopher Hitchens
The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.
Stephen Hawking
The more I learn, the more I realize how much I don't know.
Albert Einstein
The most important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.
William Lawrence Bragg
The function of skepticism is to challenge accepted beliefs and to question the validity of truth claims.
Peter Boghossian
The true method of knowledge is experiment.
William Blake
Objectivity is the delusion that observations could be made without an observer.
Heinz von Foerster
Objectivity is a subject's delusion that observing can be done without him.
Heinz von Foerster
Objectivity is not the absence of subjectivity, but the addition of it.
Mary Catherine Bateson
Objectivity is a way of overcoming subjectivity.
Lorraine Code
Objectivity is not neutrality; it is a commitment to seeing the world as it is.
Elliot D. Cohen
Objectivity is a way of seeing, not a way of being.
Thomas Nagel
Objectivity is not the same as truth, but it is the recognition that truth is always partial and subjective.
Richard Rorty
Objectivity is a myth, a metaphor, a delusion, a hope, a fraud, a convention, a regulative ideal, or an achievement, depending on the philosopher.
Peter Galison
Objectivity is not a matter of avoiding personal biases, but of becoming aware of them and taking them into account.
Thomas Sowell
All knowledge is subjective.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
We see the world not as it is, but as we are.
Anaïs Nin
The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.
Horace Walpole
All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
Immanuel Kant
Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
Immanuel Kant
There is no substitute for direct perception.
David Hume
The mind is furnished with ideas by experience alone.
John Locke
The function of science is to transform common sense into precision.
Bertrand Russell
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
The rational mind is the highest judge and tribunal.
Cicero
Reason is a harmonizing, controlling force rather than a creative one.
Bertrand Russell
The rational soul is the highest part of the human being.
Aristotle
Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
C.S. Lewis
Reason is the mistress and queen of all things.
Cicero
The only true source of knowledge is experience.
Albert Einstein
Reason is the foundation of all knowledge and the cement of all society.
John Locke
The greater the doubt, the greater the awakening.
Albert Einstein
Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.
Voltaire
Doubt is often the beginning of wisdom.
M. Scott Peck
Doubt is the key to knowledge.
Persian Proverb
Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.
Charles Caleb Colton
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.
Daniel J. Boorstin
The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.
Dr. Seuss
The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.
Steve Jobs
The more you know, the more you realize you don't know.
Aristotle
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
Albert Einstein
The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.
Frank Herbert
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