Everything in nature is the result of fixed laws.
Charles DarwinRead
It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.
Interpretation
Recognizing our own ignorance is essential for personal growth and understanding.
This quote by Charles Darwin emphasizes the importance of acknowledging our limitations and knowledge gaps. By being aware of our ignorance, we open ourselves up to learning and growth, which is crucial for intellectual and personal development.
In practice
During a team meeting, I quoted Darwin to encourage team members to share what they don't know.
Everything in nature is the result of fixed laws.
The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
I am quite conscious that my speculations run beyond the bounds of true science....It is a mere rag of an hypothesis with as many flaw[s] & holes as sound parts.
We cannot fathom the marvelous complexity of an organic being; but on the hypothesis here advanced this complexity is much increased. Each living creature must be looked at as a microcosm--a little universe, formed of a host of self-propagating organisms, inconceivably minute and as numerous as the stars in heaven.
I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.
we are always slow in admitting any great change of which we do not see the intermediate steps
Solve all your problems through meditation. Exchange unprofitable religious speculations for actual God-contact. Clear your mind of dogmatic theological debris; let in the fresh, healing waters of direct perception. Attune yourself to the active inner Guidance; the Divine Voice has the answer to every dilemma of life. Through man's ingenuity for getting himself into trouble appears to be endless, the Infinite Succor is no less resourceful.
We think we have to become something else to be satisfied, not realizing that being ourselves is the only thing that can satisfy us.
Happy the hare at morning, for she cannot read The hunter's waking thoughts.
Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.
You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.
If you wish to make Pythocles rich, do not add to his store of money, but subtract from his desires.
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