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Once your soul has been enlarged by a truth, it can never return to its original size.
— Blaise Pascal, 1623-1662, French thinker
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Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
— Wolfgang Goethe, 1749-1832, German poet & philosopher
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What gets us into trouble is not what we don't know. It's what we know for sure that just ain't so.
— Mark Twain, 1835-1910, American writer
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True education is the ability to discern the difference between what you do know and what you don't.
— Anatole France, 1844-1924, French writer, Nobel 1921
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Faith is the Knowledge of the Heart, Logic the Knowledge of the Mind.
— Erica Jong, 1942-, American writer
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Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Cleverness is mere opinion. Bewilderment brings intuitive knowledge.
— Rumi, 1207-1273, Persian mystic & poet
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Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.
— Eleanor Roosevelt, 1884-1962, Wife of the 32nd USA president
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To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.
— Confucius, 551-479 BC, Chinese teacher & philosopher
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I know more than I can express in words, and the little I can express would not have been expressed, had I not known more.
— Vladimir Nabokov, 1899-1977, Russian-American writer
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People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.
— Theodore Roosevelt, 1858-1919, American President [1901-1909]
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You cannot become highly educated if you only read what you like.
— Joseph Joubert, 1754-1824, French author of maxims
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The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
— Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900, Irish writer
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Hello everyone ,
I'm going to take a break.
I'm leaving for Cancun today.
I invite you to continue if your heart tells you.
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The true method of knowledge is experiment.
— William Blake, 1757-1827, English poet & painter
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If we do not plant knowledge when young, it will give us no shade when we are old.
— Lord Chesterfield, 1694-1773, English statesman & writer
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Eternal vigilance is the price of knowledge.
— George Santayana, 1863-1952, Spanish-American philosopher
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messier 111 wrote: Fri Feb 10, 2023 2:05 pm Hello everyone ,
I'm going to take a break.
I'm leaving for Cancun today.
I invite you to continue if your heart tells you.
Have a nice trip!
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No one is dumb who is curious. The people who don't ask questions remain clueless throughout their lives.

-Neil deGrasse Tyson

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