Carl Sagan Quotes, Knowledge Quotes, Acceptance Quotes

Too much openness and you accept every notion, idea, and hypothesis-which is tantamount to knowing nothing. Too much skepticism-especially rejection of new ideas before they are adequately tested-and you're not only unpleasantly grumpy, but also closed to the advance of science. A judicious mix is what we need.

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How little we know of what there is to know.

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Today a man of knowledge might well feel as though he were God transformed into an animal.

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If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.

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Conversation with a friend will only bear good fruit of knowledge when both think only of the matter under consideration and forget that they are friends.

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There is no doctrine of the Reason which will bear to be taught by the Understanding.

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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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In ancient times, people said that imperfect moves to becoming perfect. Are these words vain? No! Truly, by gaining Unity you come to Perfection!

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It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.

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Most people affirm pleasure to be the good, but the finer sort of wits say it is knowledge.

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The ancestor of every action is a thought.

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You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as the plant has root, bud, and fruit.

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Without execution, thinking is mere idleness.

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A king that would not feel his crown too heavy for him, must wear it every day; but if he think it too light, he knoweth not of what metal it is made.

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Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

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God never jests with us, and will not compromise the end of nature, by permitting any inconsequence in its procession.

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To know how little one knows is to have genuine knowledge. Not to know how little one knows is to be deluded. Only those who know when they are deluded can free themselves from such delusion. The intelligent people are not deluded, because they know and accept their ignorance as ignorance, and thereby have genuine knowledge.

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Where there is the tree of knowledge, there is always Paradise: so say the most ancient and most modern serpents.

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We are impressed and even daunted by the immense Universe to be explored. "What we know is a point to what we do not know."

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You must treat the days respectfully, you must be a day yourself, and not interrogate it like a college professor.

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