Witter Bynner Quotes
A man who knows how little he knows is well, a man who knows how much he knows is sick.
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Most people, when they hear the disease name, it's all they know about it. It sounds so mild. When I first was sick, for the first 10 years or so, I was dismissed. I was ridiculed and told I was lazy. It was a joke.
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If you first fortify yourself with the true knowledge of the Universal Self, and then live in the midst of wealth and worldliness, surely they will in no way affect you.
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How can you not love a man banging on the drums? He knows how to keep a rhythm.
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Learning from the experiences of our ancestors, let us together create knowledge for all that benefits all.
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The acquisition of knowledge - knowledge of both the world and of their own religion - will inoculate young people against extremist ideologies.
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I really don't know where my interest in death comes from. Maybe I've just got a twisted imagination. The truth is, I haven't had a hugely eventful life - maybe I'm compensating in my creative life. Or maybe I'm just a bit sick.
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I'm sick of running away from things.
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If knowledge and foresight are too penetrating and deep, unify them with ease and sincerity.
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The true knowledge or science which exists nowhere but in the mind itself, has no other entity at all besides intelligibility; and therefore whatsoever is clearly intelligible, is absolutely true.
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Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
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It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.
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I read many things. I read to fill in my knowledge of the world.
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The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.
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It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a hospital that it should do the sick no harm.
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Brahman is beyond mind and speech, beyond concentration and meditation, beyond the knower, the known and knowledge, beyond even the conception of the real and unreal. In short, It is beyond all relativity.
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18. The deeply learned ones know the mind as the directly expressed meaning of the supreme knowledge. The heart is the meaning aimed at. The Supreme is none other than the heart.
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The first thing in faith is knowledge. What we know we must also agree unto. What we agree unto we must rest upon alone for salvation. It will not save me to know that Christ is a Saviour; but it will save me to trust Him to be my Saviour.
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He had that faint sick look in his eyes, as if he wanted to give her something, charity for instance.
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The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.
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I feel, sometimes, as the renaissance man must have felt in finding new riches at every point and in the certainty that unexplored areas of knowledge and experience await at every turn.
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There is one thing one has to have either a soul that is cheerful by nature, or a soul made cheerful by work, love, art, and knowledge.
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Person erscheint, indem sie zu andern Personen in Beziehung tritt.
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The man who commits immorality does so because he thinks it will maximize pleasure if he can minimize the pain by keeping it secret.
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A man who knows how little he knows is well, a man who knows how much he knows is sick.
