knowledge

"A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge."

"Switch Hitter [10w] Aphorisms are penned in my left brain,poetry, my right."

"If your doctrine changed for the better yet your character changed for the worse, you changed for the worse."

"First Day at Harvard [10w] Smartest kid in the roomwalks into room of competitors."

"Poetry as Entertainment [10w] Poetry that's not entertaining is just a self-indulgent laundry list."

"Remember it all, every insult, every tear. Tattoo it on the inside of your mind. In life, knowledge of poisons is essential. I've told you, nobody becomes an artist unless they have to."

"Nothing is generous. New knowledge is a valuable commodity. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we are."

"The range of human knowledge today is so great that we're all specialists and the distance between specializations has become so great that anyone who seeks to wander freely between them almost has to forego closeness with the people around him."

"It is important never to separate love and knowledge, compassion and wisdom. A wisdom without compassion is closed upon itself and does not bear fruit. A compassion without wisdom is a madness and a cause of suffering."

"Why I Don't Carry a Cellphone [10w] It's a sign of servility you can be contacted anytime."

"The purpose of collecting so much information can only be power."

"Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain."

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

"Circumstances can change through worldly knowledge (ignorance of the self, the Soul) and also through (true) knowledge (realization of the self). With ignorance, circumstances will bring entanglements and with (true) knowledge, circumstances will bring solutions. (True) Knowledge itself changes circumstances. Is God likely to come down and do so?"

"I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure — that is all that agnosticism means."

"Preparation [10w] Hope for the best, but prepare for your insufferable wife."

"A library implies an act of faith which generations, still in darkness hid, sign in their night in witness of the dawn."À qui la faute? (1872)"

"You can know a thing to death and be for all purposes completely ignorant of it. A man can know his father, or his son, and there might still be nothing between them but loyalty and love and mutual incomprehension."

"Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand."

"To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others."