To know, to esteem, to love,-and then to part,_x000D_ _x000D_ Makes up life's tale to many a feeling heart.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeRead
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To know, to esteem, to love,-and then to part,_x000D_ _x000D_ Makes up life's tale to many a feeling heart.
Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary, and which are completely unnecessary to know.
In order to help another effectively, I must understand what he understands. If I do not know that, my greater understanding will be of no help to him... instruction begins when you put yourself in his place so that you may understand what he understands and in the way he understands it.
If I had an hour to solve a problem and my life depended on the solution, I would spend the first 55 minutes determining the proper question to ask, for once I know the proper question, I could solve the problem in less than five minutes.
People don't mind being challenged to do better if they _x000D_ _x000D_ know the request is coming from a caring heart
Wouldst thou know thyself, observe the actions of others._x000D_ _x000D_ Wouldst thou other men know, look thou within thine own heart.
Too much to know is to know naught but fame.
Knowledge comes through likeness. And so because the soul may know everything, it is never at rest until it comes to the original idea, in which all things are one. And there it comes to rest in God.
If you know anything better than this candidly impart it; if not, use this with me.
It is well for one to know more than he says.
The origin of all science is the desire to know causes, and the origin of all false science is the desire to accept false causes rather than none; or, which is the same thing, in the unwillingness to acknowledge our own ignorance.
The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown.
Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.
It is better to have useless knowledge than to know nothing.
Man is fed with fables through life, and leaves it in the belief he knows something of what has been passing, when in truth he knows nothing but what has passed under his own eyes.
It's kind of a rule of thumb for me to self-doubt going into any kind of project. I always think that I shouldn't be doing it and I don't know how to do it and I'm going to fail and that I fooled them. I always try to find a way out.
A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets, unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing.
That's part of our policy, is not to be taken seriously because I think our opposition, whoever they may be in all their manifest forms, don't know how to handle humour.
Let me assure you that the humourless as a bunch don't just not know what's funny, they don't know what's serious. They have no common sense, either, and shouldn't be trusted with anything.
We know that enduring peace cannot be bought at the cost of other people's freedom.
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