knowledge

"The ability to withstand the flinch comes with the knowledge that the future will be better than the past."

"You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you have lost something."

"[I]t was with a good end in mind – that of acquiring the knowledge of good and evil – that Eve allowed herself to be carried away and eat the forbidden fruit. But Adam was not moved by this desire for knowledge, but simply by greed: he ate it because he heard Eve say it tasted good."

"No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge."

"I will not join the rat race because I'm not a rat. And I will not blindly follow a specific faith because I'm not a bat. The only race I'll take part in is for humans being humane. It's called the human race, and sadly it's got the least participants."

"Shall I teach you what knowledge?When you know a thing, say that you know it;when you do not know a thing,admit that you do not know it.That is knowledge"

"Maintaining the Distance between Wealth and Poverty [10w] The nouveau riche are far more ruthlessthan the rich."

"Certainty is the most vivid condition of ignorance and the most necessarycondition for knowledge."

"Because a doubt is not a denial. Doubt is a powerful tool, and it should be applied to history."

"Vacations for Souls [10w] When souls are bored in Heaven they vacation in Hell."

"One is seldom unchanged by the death of those one loves. It gives me a deeper knowledge of them, and so of oneself in regard to them."

"The fool who knows his folly Becomes wise by that fact.But the fool who thinks he's wise - He's called 'a fool' indeed!"

"A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak."

"The mind of God is a mystery and none can understand it."

"a problem well put is half solved."

"Rewrite☷Rewrite [10w] Happiness writes new memories;New losses rewrite over old ones."

"Working in the hotel business I have learned a lot about people. It’s amazing what you can discover about someone by watching them when they don’t know you are watching, especially if they are asleep."

"And then I felt sad because I realized that once people are broken in certain ways, they can't ever be fixed, and this is something nobody ever tells you when you are young and it never fails to surprise you as you grow older as you see the people in your life break one by one. You wonder when your turn is going to be, or if it's already happened."

"Ethical Dilemma of an Ascending Body [10w] + [10w] You can't ascend a ladderwithout rungs to push back;you can't climb a staircasewithout stairs to step on."

"Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves."