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The beginning of knowledge

  The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand. - Frank Herbert If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them. - Isaac Asimov The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance. - Socrates There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge. - Bertrand Russell To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge. - Benjamin Disraeli All men by nature desire knowledge. - Aristotle If a man empties his purse into his head no one can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest. - Benjamin Franklin READ MORE  

Dreams come true

  Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them. - John Updike In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted. - Bertrand Russell A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all. - Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, section 41 The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity. - Albert Einstein Keep true to the dreams of thy youth. - Friedrich von Schiller The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for. - Oscar Wilde The wisest men follo...

Men fear thought

  Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth -- more than ruin -- more even than death.... Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man. - Bertrand Russell Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune. - Walt Whitman Fortune does not change men, it unmasks them. - Suzanne Necker Every man is the architect of his own fortune. - Sallust Fortune favors the brave. - Virgil, Aeneid We should manage our fortunes as we do our health - enjoy it when good, be patient when it is bad, and never apply violent remedies except in an extreme necessity. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld It is better to know some of the quest...

Style is knowing who you are

  Gore Vidal Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say and not giving a damn. - Gore Vidal Don't rule out working with your hands. It does not preclude using your head. - Andy Rooney Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward. - Kurt Vonnegut Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple. - Dr. Seuss The body says what words cannot. - Martha Graham It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear. - Dick Cavett Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped. - Elbert Hubbard The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's. - Jane Austen, Mansfield Park Accept the pain, cherish the joys, resolve the regrets; then can come the best of benedictions - 'If I had my life to live over, I'd do it all the same.' - Joan McIntosh I would never die for my beliefs because I might be...

10 Quotes

Photo: Facts About Universal Medicine Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you. - Spanish Proverb The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. - Mahatma Gandhi Life is an adventure in forgiveness. - Norman Cousins It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend. - William Blake There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness. - Josh Billings Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much. - Oscar Wilde No one gossips about other people's secret virtues. - Bertrand Russell Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip. - Will Rogers Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead. - Benjamin Franklin A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it. - Bob Hope