knowledge

"There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught."

"The dead know everything but they don't give a damn."

"Out-of-the-Box [10w] I march to my own drummerin a drum circle."

"Rationalize [10w] Man needs an apt aphorism to rationalize his ruthless actions."

"To force oneself to believe and to accept a thing without understanding is political, and not spiritual or intellectual."

"It is important to view knowledge as sort of a semantic tree -- make sure you understand the fundamental principles, ie the trunk and big branches, before you get into the leaves/details or there is nothing for them to hang on to."

"Love in the Afterlife [10w] Maybe I'll love you in the afterlife.This life, fuhgeddaboudit."

"Time after time have nations, ay, and rich and strong nations, learned in the arts, been, and passed away to be forgotten, so that no memory of them remains. This is but one of several; for Time eats up the works of man."

"As our circle of knowledge expands, so does the circumference of darkness surrounding it."

"A visitor is a friend, he brings news, good or bad, which is bread to the hungry minds in lonely places. A real friend who comes to the house is a heavenly messenger, who brings the panis angelorum."

"Humble Wishes [10w] "God, all I simply ask is that I become perfect."

"Judgement can do without knowledge: but not knowledge without judgement."

"Misfortune Misfortune is but a stepping stone to great fortune ~especially if your slip and fall was possibly caused by negligenceand you get yourself a good Jew lawyer to sue the parties responsible."

"Alle Wege führen zur Erkenntnis der Nichtigkeit aller Dinge, aber keiner führt zurück."

"Scientifically Proven [10w] Mariah Carey has a brain the size of a walnut."

"To light a candle is to cast a shadow..."

"Don't wish...DO! Don't try...BE! Don't think...KNOW! And above all: Bless a stranger with a small, yet powerful, random act of kindness. You feel me?"

"Only the subject's individual consciousness can testify for the unwitnessed acts, and there is no act more deprived of external testimony than the act of knowing."

"A man who denies his past is a man who truly denies himself a future, for he refuses to know himself, and to deny knowledge of oneself is to stumble through life as handicapped as the blind mute."

"All things are strange which are worth knowing."