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"The more the years go by, the less I know. But if you give explanations and understand everything, then nothing can happen. What helps me go forward is that I stay receptive, I feel that anything can happen."
Anouk Aimee

"Learning is finding out what you already know."
Richard Bach

"You never know what is enough, unless you know what is more than enough."
William Blake

"Think with the whole body."
Taisen Deshimaru

"It is impossible for anyone to begin to learn what he thinks he already knows."
Epictetus

"Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms."
Kahlil Gibran

"Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain."
Kahlil Gibran -"The Voice of the Poet"

"All truly wise thoughts have been thoughts already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, until they take root in our personal experience."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Yet ah! why should they know their fate?
 Since sorrow never comes too late,
 And happiness too swiftly flies.
 Thought would destroy their paradise.
 No more; where ignorance is bliss,
 'Tis folly to be wise."
Thomas Gray

"If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered."
Stanley Kubrick

"We must openly accept all ideologies and systems as means of solving humanity's problems.  One country, one nation, one ideology, one system is not sufficient."
Dalai Lama

"Knowledge is one.  Its division into subjects is a concession to human weakness."
Sir Halford John Mackinder

"If the human mind was simple enough to understand, we'd be too simple to understand it."
Emerson Pugh