Henry David Thoreau Quotes
We are as much as we see. Faith is sight and knowledge. The hands only serve the eyes.
Quotes to Explore
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The fondest dream of the information age is to create an archive of all knowledge. You might call it the Alexandrian fantasy, after the great library founded by Ptolemy I in 286 BC.
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Well, my type is obviously creative. Creative, with burning eyes and a pretty mouth.
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Let us democratise knowledge. Let us universalise justice. Together, let us globalise compassion!
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There never yet has been a country which became powerful without knowledge. A man by his own strength alone cannot successfully combat a tiger, but by his intelligence, he can devise means to entrap him.
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For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.
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If the world is an objective reality that exists independently of us, then humans themselves, even in their own eyes, are nothing more than objects, and their life stories merely a series of disconnected historical accidents, which they may wonder at, but which they themselves have nothing to do with.
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Faith... must be enforced by reason... when faith becomes blind it dies.
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Summer is not obligatory. We can start an infernally hard jigsaw puzzle in June with the knowledge that, if there are enough rainy days, we may just finish it by Labor Day, but if not, there's no harm, no penalty. We may have better things to do.
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There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions as the knowledge that there is a meaning in one's life.
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There is no age better than another. The commitment to give of yourself and the knowledge that the time is right are what's important.
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It's also reflective of a young person's religion or faith in that it's highly charged with sacramental imagery and with country imagery, because I was in the seminary for so many years in the country.
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Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.
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'The Driver' wasn't commercially successful at the time, but when I was a teenager, I had no knowledge of that.
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The giant squid has the biggest eyes of any animal on the planet. It's a visual predator.
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If one must fight or create, it is necessary that this be preceded by the broadest possible knowledge.
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When I was in high school I got involved in the fringe theater scene in Chicago, and I met some openly gay people. I could see that it got better, that they were happy and loved and supported. I saw with my own eyes that it got better.
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I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
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Seldom ever was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.
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It is important for the poet not to be emotional because you cannot see the world clearly with tears in your eyes.
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Europe's the mayonnaise, but America supplies the good old lobster.
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Every time a meteor comes close to the earth, we all think about the end of the world - but our internal soundtrack doesn't turn off. We're also thinking about pizza or passing a slow tractor or making a turn, and for a magical instant, our lives seem to be in conversation with the stars.
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We are as much as we see. Faith is sight and knowledge. The hands only serve the eyes.
