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The more I learn, the more I realize I don't know.
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The time comes in life when we have read enough. It's time to stop reading. It's time to lay down the books and write.
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When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity.
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Indeed, it is not intellect, but intuition which advances humanity. Intuition tells man his purpose in this life.
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The restriction of knowledge to an elite group destroys the spirit of the society and leads to its intellectual impoverishment.
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The state of mind which enables a man to do work of this kind is akin to that of the religious worshiper or the lover; the daily effort comes from no deliberate intention or program, but straight from the heart.
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Man usually avoids attributing cleverness to somebody else-unless it is an enemy.
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The pursuit of knowledge is more valuable than its possession.
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Art is standing with one hand extended into the universe and one hand extended into the world, and letting ourselves be a conduit for passing energy.
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All men are ignorant, just in different fields.
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The great moral teachers of humanity were, in a way, artistic geniuses in the art of living.
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What I see in Nature is a grand design that we can understand only imperfectly, one with which a responsible person must look at with humility.
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I think 99 times and find nothing. I stop thinking, swim in the silence, and the truth comes to me.
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As a human being, one has been endowed with just enough intelligence to be able to see clearly how utterly inadequate that intelligence is when confronted with what exists.
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The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.
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Science has brought forth this danger, but the real problem is in the minds and hearts of men.
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I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking.
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Had I known that the Germans would not succeed in producing an atomic bomb, I would not have lifted a finger.
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The illusion that we are separate from one another is an optical delusion of our consciousness.
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We cannot get to where we dream of being tomorrow unless we change our thinking today.
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No one can read the Gospels without feeling the actual presence of Jesus. His personality pulsates in every word. No myth is filled with such life.
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The leaves and the light are one.
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We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life. All that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
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You can move through life seeing nothing as a miracle, or seeing everything as a miracle.