You cannot subsidize irresponsibility and expect people to become more responsible.
It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.
- Topic: Knowledge, Perception
- Location: Zion National Park
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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Reality doesn't go away when it is ignored.
There has never been a shortage of people eager to draw up blueprints for running other people’s lives.
Nobody is equal to anybody. Even the same man is not equal to himself on different days.
When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.
What exactly is your 'fair share' of what 'someone else' has worked for?
One of the most pathetic—and dangerous—signs of our times is the growing number of individuals and groups who believe that no one can possibly disagree with them for any honest reason.
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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.
The opinion of 10,000 men is of no value if none of them know anything about the subject.
The knowledge and skills you have achieved are meant to be forgotten so you can float comfortably in emptiness, without obstruction.
The most crucial use of knowledge and education is to understand the importance of developing a good heart.
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
Amid the seeming confusion of our mysterious world, individuals are so nicely adjusted to a system, and systems to one another and to a whole, that, by stepping aside for a moment, a man exposes himself to a fearful risk of losing his place forever.
To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.
The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.
Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.
The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases. Each of us carries his own life-form—an indeterminable form which cannot be superseded by any other.