No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.
- Topic: Knowledge, Self
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Between what is said and not meant, and what is meant and not said, most of love is lost.
They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.
Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.
Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.
Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself.
When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy.
And God said love your enemy and I obeyed him and loved myself.
Work is love made visible.
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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
The knowledge and skills you have achieved are meant to be forgotten so you can float comfortably in emptiness, without obstruction.
As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.
No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
Cherish that which is within you, and shut off that which is without; for much knowledge is a curse.
No one can draw more out of things, books included, than he already knows. A man has no ears for that to which experience has given him no access.
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
The world will ask you who you are, and if you don't know, the world will tell you.
The stability of the internal medium is a primary condition for the freedom and independence of certain living bodies in relation to the environment surrounding them.
He who has peace of mind disturbs neither himself nor another.
If you are ever tempted to look for outside approval, realize that you have compromised your integrity.
Being aware of a single shortcoming within yourself is far more useful than being aware of a thousand in someone else!
Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
Conquer yourself rather than the world.