Abraham Myerson Quotes
The more ignorant the authority, the more dogmatic it is. In the fields where no real knowledge is even possible, the authorities are the fiercest and most assured and punish non-belief with the severest of penalties.
Abraham Myerson
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The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.
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Superstition is marked not by its pretension to a body of knowledge but by its method of seeking truth.
Carl Sagan
When an unbaked pot is broken, the potter can use the mud to make a new one; but when a baked one is broken, he cannot do the same any longer. So when a person dies in a state of ignorance, he is born again; but when he becomes well baked in the fire of true knowledge and dies a perfect man, he is not born again.
Ramakrishna
In the fields with which we are concerned knowledge exists only in lightning flashes. The text is the thunder rolling long afterwards.
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Without the possibility of action, all knowledge comes to one labeled 'File and forget.'
Ralph Ellison
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Piet Mondrian
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Nalini Singh
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C. Scott Grow
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Keri Russell
The more ignorant the authority, the more dogmatic it is. In the fields where no real knowledge is even possible, the authorities are the fiercest and most assured and punish non-belief with the severest of penalties.
Abraham Myerson