Swami Vivekananda Quotes, Book Quotes, Ignorant Quotes

The sages are often ignorant of physical science, because they read the wrong book-the book within; and the scientists are too often ignorant of religion, because they too read the wrong book-the book outside.

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The most permanent lessons in morals are those which come, not of book teaching, but of experience.

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No; that doesn't interest me.' 'That's because you never read a book about it.

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Some women have a weakness for shoes... I can go barefoot if necessary. I have a weakness for books.

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Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon in books.

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Deep vers'd in books, and shallow in himself.

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It is said, no man can write but one book; and if a man have a defect, it is apt to leave its impression on all his performances.

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In the middle years of the nineteenth century there first became abundant in this strange world of ours a class of men, men tending for the most part to become elderly, who are called, and who are very properly called, but who dislike extremely to be called--"Scientists.

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Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one religious.

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I could not be happy with a man whose taste did not in every point coincide with my own. He must enter in all my feelings; the same books, the same music must charm us both.

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Be lord of a day, through wisdom and justice, and you can put up your history books.

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I loved to read, still do, and it seemed that the writing was a result of the love of books and reading and libraries.

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They were strange books. They spoke about mercury, salt, dragons, and kings, and he didn't understand any of it.

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I've thought of publishing a book of my hate mail, but I don't own the rights to the letters.

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Religion, it seems to me, has nothing whatsoever to do with any belief, with any priest, with any church or so-called sacred book. The state of the religious mind can be understood only when we begin to understand what beauty is; and the understanding of beauty must be approached through total aloneness.

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Have you tried to drive a harpoon through a body? No? Tut, tut, my dear sir, you must really pay attention to these details.

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I think being an only child created in me a degree of self-reliance, which I'm glad of. It made me perfectly happy with my own company and perhaps was good conditioning for the protracted solitude of writing books as slowly as I do.

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Most of you probably didn't know that I have a new book out. Some guy put together a collection of my wit and wisdom - or, as he calls it, my accidental wit and wisdom. But I'm kind of proud that my words are already in book form.

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The Navy is very old and very wise.

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Those who draw their sustenance from science are blessed. It is for me to only derive an occasional pleasure. This is nothing worthy of conceit, but I am indeed touched by the joys. This book is an ode to such joys, a digest of my collections from various sources.

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