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"The map is not the territory."--Alfred Korzybski
"The thought is not the thing."--Alfred Korzybski
"Identity is invariably false to facts."--Alfred Korzybski
"Whatever you say something is--it is not."--Alfred Korzybski
"What you believe you experience."--J. Krishnamurti
"The thought is not the thing."--J. Krishnamurti
"The description is not the described."--J. Krishnamurti
"The fact is one thing and the idea about the fact is another."--J. Krishnamurti
"Sentimentality and emotionalism have nothing whatsoever to do with love."--J. Krishnamurti
"Knowledge is an addiction, as drink; knowledge does not bring understanding. Knowledge can be taught, but not wisdom; there must be freedom from knowledge for the coming of wisdom."--J. Krishnamurti inCommentaries on Living, First Series, page 169
"Everything that can be said can be said clearly."--Ludwig Wittgenstein
"When one has an image about oneself one is surely insane, one lives in a world of illusion."--J. Krishnamurti, The Flight of the Eagle, page 57
"Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language."--Ludwig Wittgenstein
"Some man holdeth his tongue, because he hath not to answer: and some keepeth silence, knowing his time."--Ecclesiasticus 20:6
"Thus the negative perception is the triumph of consciousness."--Alfred North Whitehead, 1861-1947: British mathematician & philosopher
"Negative thinking is the highest form of intelligence."--Jiddu Krishnamurti, 1895-1986: Indian philosopher, Commentaries on Living, Second Series, p. 71
"Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be."--Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The most precious things in speech are pauses."--Ralph Richardson
"Don't speak unless you can improve on the silence."--Spanish proverb
"You can't judge a book by its cover."--Aphorism
"Foolishness always results when the tongue outraces the brain."--Unknown
"Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language."--Ludwig Wittgenstein
"The moment a man questions the meaning and value of life, he is sick, since objectively neither has any existence; by asking this question one is merely admitting to a store of unsatisfied libido to which something else must have happened, a kind of fermentation leading to sadness and depression."--Sigmund Freud
"Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken."--Orson Card
"Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones."--Proverbs 16:24
"Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, which speak peace to their neighbours, but mischief is in their hearts."--Psalms 28:3
"But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation;"--I Peter 1:15
"The first duty of love is to listen."--Paul Tillich, 1886-1965
"The correct way of living is not found simply by discussing the theory of it. Even without study you can experience it, but you have to live it."--The Dhammapada: A Proper Life, verse 259
QUOTATIONS KEVIN
"The blueprint is not the building."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
"Knowledge does not do."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
"Knowledge does not know."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
"Knowledge does not get it."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
"Knowledge is not it."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
"Knowledge has no intelligence."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
"Facts can't figure."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
"Facts can't feel."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
"Facts can't fix."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
"Nothing makes sense only beings make sense."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
"Nothing is either clear or unclear except your thinking."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
"The expressed is not the experienced."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice
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