"Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning."
-Anais Nin
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"The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.“
-Anais Nin
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"There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic."
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"We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls."
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"I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern."
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"I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman."
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"When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow."
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"Belief and knowledge are considered to be two different things. But they are not."
-Stanley Fish
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"Here, class attendance is expected and students are required to take notes, which they are tested on. What is missing, it seems to me, is the use of knowledge, the practical training."
-Harrison Salisbury
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"Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity."
-Abraham Cowley
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"My father was a lawyer and to my best knowledge nobody in my family before had interest in science."
-George Andrew Olah
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"Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the literature of the subject, and, above all, an imagination which worked with great power upon the facts of his own experience."
-Carl Clinton Van Doren
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"What is research but a blind date with knowledge?"
-Will Harvey
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