#knowledge

"Narcissist, Assholes and Immunization Narcissists and assholes are immunized by their egos and sense of entitlement against the criticisms, grievances and resentments of others."

"You don’t know her like I do, because you don’t know her like I don’t. It’s true, I don’t know her at all. What’s she like?"

"Las Vegas Magic! I was the greatest magician in the world.Things were going great. My agent booked me to play the Mirage Hotel in Las Vegas for $100,000 per performance!When I got onstage everything suddenly disappeared.I'm not sure if it was allan illusion or a delusion,but I cashed the check anyway just to be safe."

"Pond(er) This [10w] Nobody wants to be:'Big fish in a little pond."

"I am a man who knows nothing, guesses sometimes, finds frequently and who's always amazed."

"...to her all books were the same and, as with her subjects, she felt a duty to approach them without prejudice...Lauren Bacall, Winifred Holtby, Sylvia Plath - who were they? Only be reading could she find out."

"Ipsa scientia potestas est.Knowledge itself is power."

"To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: this skill is most needful in times of stress and darkness."

"Want vs. What's Coming to You As the Rolling Stones say,You can't always get what you want ~but God will always give you what's coming to you."

"Double-Dipping [10w] Double-dip in righteousness and delight in the here and herafter."

"Poetry as Conspiracy [10w] A poem is unspoken conspiracy between the reader and poet."

"All I know is I don’t know if I know, and this everlasting oscillation shakes my belief system."

"Death is Opening Night Everything's that happened yesterday is a rehearsal for everything that will happen..."

"For you see, when us people who know run into each other that's an event. It almost never happens. Sometimes we meet each other and neither guesses that the other is one who knows. That's a bad thing. It's happened to me a lot of times. But you see there are so few of us."

"To sustain the belief that there is no God, atheism has to demonstrate infinite knowledge, which is tantamount to saying, “I have infinite knowledge that there is no being in existence with infinite knowledge"

"When you optimize your talents very well, you can pick money from people's pockets and nobody will ever get the guts to call you a thief."

"Your children will smash your understanding, knowledge and reality. You will be better off. Then they will leave. You'll miss them forever."

"Immortality [10w] True immortality means you've created something that will outlive you."

"No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.The teacher who walks in the shadow of the temple, among his followers, gives not of his wisdom but rather of his faith and his lovingness.If he is indeed wise he does not bid you enter the house of his wisdom, but rather leads you to the threshold of your own mind."

"Show Up [10w] I've waited for you all my life ~show up already!"