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"Let reason go before every enterprize, and counsel before every action."--Ecclesiasticus 38:33 I am not knowing the thinking. I am not doing the thinking. I am not being the thinking. I am hosting the thinking. SELF Know the place. Do the space. Be the relation of the place and space to the contents of the space and place. Ego Pages QUOTATIONS VARIOUS SOURCES "Not knowing anything is the sweetest life."--Sophocles, Ajax "Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance."-- Confucius "Energy will do anything that can be done in this world."--Johann Wolfgang van Goethe "If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing."--Anatole France "I'm not sure I want popular opinion on my side--I've noticed those with the most opinions often have the fewest facts."--Bethania McKenstry "I have the ability to be but not to know or do."--Kevin Everett FitzMaurice "Learn to say 'I don't know.' If used when appropriate, it will be often."--Donald Rumsfeld "The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool."--William Shakespeare, 1546-1616 "The novice who knows he is just that, has a small amount of wisdom. But the novice who thinks he is wise, is a fool."--Dhammapada: The Novice, verse 63 "What is the first business of one who practices philosophy? To get rid of thinking that one knows."--Epictetus, Discources "I am certainly wiser than this man. It is only too likely that neither of us has any knowledge to boast of; but he thinks that he knows something which he does not know, whereas I am quite conscious of my ignorance. At any rate it seems that I am wiser than he is to this small extent, that I do not think that I know what I do not know."--Socrates, Plato's Apology |
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Human Rights: United Nations Declaration Perfectionism Has its Perfect Place Postmodernism or Constructivism |