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The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.
Horace Walpole
The map is not the territory.
Alfred Korzybski
The universe is not only stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
J.B.S. Haldane
The more complex the system, the greater the room for error.
Murphy's Law
The more we learn, the more we discover how much we don't know.
Yahia Lababidi
The more we know, the more we realize how much we don't know.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
The more we know, the more we realize how little we know.
Anonymous
We know what we know, but not what we don't know.
Stuart Firestein
The more specific we get, the more general we become.
Marcel Proust
We don't know all the answers. If we knew all the answers we'd be bored, wouldn't we? We keep looking, searching, trying to get more knowledge.
Jack LaLanne
The only thing that I know is that I know nothing.
Plato
The more you know, the more you realize how much you don't know.
Anonymous
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.
William James
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
The only source of knowledge is experience.
Albert Einstein
The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.
Ralph W. Sockman
The human mind is not capable of grasping the Universe. We are like a little child entering a huge library. The walls are covered to the ceilings with books in many different tongues. The child knows that someone must have written these books. It does not know who or how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. But the child notes a definite plan in the arrangement of the books - a mysterious order which it does not comprehend, but only dimly suspects.
Albert Einstein
The more specific we are, the more universal something can become.
K.D. Lang
The context of a dream is the entire dream.
John C. Maxwell
The context of any problem is always more important than the problem itself.
T. Boone Pickens
The context in which a man lives shapes his life.
Louis L'Amour
The context of a conversation is almost always more important than the words that are actually spoken.
Margaret Wheatley
The context in which we live is a product of our own thinking.
David Bohm
Language is not a tool for communication, but rather a tool for domination.
Michel Foucault
The limits of language are the limits of one's world. All I know is what I have words for.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Language is the source of misunderstandings.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied.
Noam Chomsky
Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Language is the dress of thought.
Samuel Johnson
Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going.
Rita Mae Brown
Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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 only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
Socrates
The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
Eden Phillpotts
The unknown is what it is. And to be frightened of it is what sends everybody scurrying around chasing dreams, illusions, wars, peace, love, hate, all that. Unknown is what it is. Accept that it's unknown and it's plain sailing.
John Lennon
The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.
Ursula K. Le Guin
The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
The unknown is not a barrier. Instead, it's a beginning.
Christian Sands
We see the world not as it is, but as we are.
Anaïs Nin
The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me.
Meister Eckhart
The limits of my knowledge means the limits of my perception.
David Lewis
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
All knowledge is subjective.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The limits of my knowledge means the limits of my world.
Immanuel Kant
The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
Eden Phillpotts
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.
Daniel J. Boorstin
We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.
Benjamin Franklin
The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion draws all things else to support and agree with it.
Francis Bacon
Intuition is the supra-logic that cuts out all the routine processes of thought and leaps straight from the problem to the answer.
Robert Graves
Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the way.
Florence Scovel Shinn
Intuition is a suspension of logic due to impatience.
Rita Mae Brown
Intuition is the clear conception of the whole at once.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
Intuition is the key to everything, in painting, filmmaking, business - everything.
David Lynch
Intuition is a combination of historical (empirical) data, deep and heightened observation, and an ability to cut through the thickness of surface reality.
Victoria Principal
Intuition is the whisper of the soul.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
Intuition is a very powerful thing, more powerful than intellect.
Steve Jobs
Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one.
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
The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.
Erich Fromm
Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.
Thomas Wolfe
Culture is the sum of all the forms of art, of love, and of thought, which, in the course of centuries, have enabled man to be less enslaved.
Andre Malraux
Culture is not a biologically transmitted complex.
Ruth Benedict
Culture is the name for what people are interested in, their thoughts, their models, the books they read and the speeches they hear.
Walter Lippmann
Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why.
Henry Van Dyke
Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.
Thomas Carlyle
Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.
Jawaharlal Nehru
Culture is the intersection of people and life itself. It's how we deal with life, love, death, birth, disappointment... all of that is expressed in culture.
Wendell Pierce
Culture is the sum total of all the things that make a people unique.
Bonnie Blair
Time is a created thing. To say 'I don't have time,' is like saying, 'I don't want to.
Lao Tzu
Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Lost time is never found again.
Benjamin Franklin
Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.
William Penn
Time is a game played beautifully by children.
Heraclitus
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
Hector Berlioz
Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
Theophrastus
Time is a thief of beauty and opportunities.
Proverb
Time is a created thing. It's not like some undiscovered element in physics or a new invention that we can tinker with. It's something we've created, something we've invented, and it's something we can change.
Alan Lightman
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