Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes, Knowledge Quotes, Men Quotes

Every one is least known to himself, and it is very difficult for a man to know himself.

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He who repeats what he does not understand is no better than an ass that is loaded with books.

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For the purpose of knowledge we must know how to make use of the inward current which draws us towards a thing, and also of the current which after a time draws us away from it.

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Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

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[Misquotation; not by Einstein.] If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker. [Apparently remorseful for his role in the development of the atom bomb.]

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It must be conceded that a theory has an important advantage if its basic concepts and fundamental hypotheses are 'close to experience,' and greater confidence in such a theory is certainly justified. There is less danger of going completely astray, particularly since it takes so much less time and effort to disprove such theories by experience. Yet more and more, as the depth of our knowledge increases, we must give up this advantage in our quest for logical simplicity in the foundations of physical theory.

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But the jiva [living being] is endowed with ego and his knowledge is limited, whereas Ishwar is without ego and is omniscient.

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The goal is to know how not-to-know.

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One cannot know everything.

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Crowns have their compass-length of days their date- Triumphs their tomb-felicity, her fate- Of nought but earth can earth make us partaker, But knowledge makes a king most like his Maker.

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Knowledge gropes but meets not Wisdom's face.

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They assembled together and dedicated these as the first-fruits of their love to Apollo in his Delphic temple, inscribing there those maxims which are on every tongue- 'know thyselP and 'Nothing overmuch.'

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Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little.

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The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.

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He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.

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I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.

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Knowledge comes Of learning well retain'd, unfruitful else.

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We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that the savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.

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Even more exasperating than the guy who thinks he knows it all is the one who really does.

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Not to know what happened before one was born is always to be a child.

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