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Of what a strange nature is knowledge! It clings to a mind when it has once seized on it like a lichen on a rock." - Frankenstein p115
If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
in my dreams you walk dripping from a sea journey on the highway across America in tears to the door of my cottage in the Western night
In life's journey, you will meet all sorts of characters. Always remember, never shed a tear for the heartless, corrupt or insensitive.
My advice to those who are about to begin, in earnest, the journey of life, is to take their heart in one hand and a club in the other.
No one likes a straight road but the man who pays for it, or who, when he travels, is brute enough to wish to get to his journey's end.
Farewell, I wish our souls may meet with comfort at the journey's end.- The Heavenly Footman: A Puritan's View of How to Get to Heaven.
It is your soul's journey to enroll the ego in the quest for the ultimate victory - the evolution of your own individual consciousness.
You must acquire the best knowledge first, and without delay; it is the height of madness to learn what you will later have to unlearn.
The pleasure and value of every walk or journey we take may be doubled to us by carefully noting down the impressions it makes upon us.
Instead of bringing back 1600 plants, we might return from our journeys with a collection of small unfêted but life-enhancing thoughts.
I was not offended, my love. An insult is like a drink; it affects one only if accepted. And pride is too heavy baggage for my journey.
And though you want to last forever, You know you never will, You know you never will, And the good-bye makes the journey harder still.
I have come to believe that the best kind of walk, or journey, is the one in which you have no particular destination when you set out.
Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.
Wherever you go, east, west, north or south, think of it as a journey into yourself! The one who travels into itself travels the world.
I'm thankful for the experience and to be able to coach other young people on their journey through college football. It's a privilege.
The journey toward your Big Dream changes you. In fact, the journey itself is what prepares you to succeed at what you were born to do.
In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.
Life is wonderful beautiful journey. Every episode of my life is like a dream, and I am at peace and happy with what life has given me.
All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
The pleasure we derive from journeys is perhaps dependent more on the mindset with which we travel than on the destination we travel to.
It's about the journey--mine and yours--and the lives we can touch, the legacy we can leave, and the world we can change for the better.
Shamanic healing is a journey. It involves stepping out of our habitual roles, our conventional scripts, and improvising a dancing path.
For me, the hero’s journey is not the voyage from weakness to strength. The true hero’s journey is the voyage from strength to weakness.
Sometimes in your life you will go on a journey. It will be the longest journey you have ever taken. It is the journey to find yourself.
Even if you set a long-term goal, that doesn't mean it's a straight-line journey. Often, there are problems and obstacles along the way.
The longest journeyIs the journey inwards.Of him who has chosen his destiny, Who has started upon his quest For the source of his being.
We do not go to the green woods and crystal waters to rough it, we go to smooth it. We get it rough enough at home, in towns and cities.
Critical to any practice of sacred psychology is training in multiple imageries to facilitate the inner realism of journeys of the soul.
The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step. So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small.
Scientific apparatus offers a window to knowledge, but as they grow more elaborate, scientists spend ever more time washing the windows.
I'm an American chef. I'm American. I live here. I love being here. But, of course, it is different. A black man's journey is different.
Every great thing starts with an idea, followed by a doubt and finally a resolve to abandon or pursue. Victory is a treacherous journey.
When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.
The point of the journey is not just healing. It's also recovering the truest, most spontaneous, joyful, and creative core of ourselves.
My own hope is that, as a human species, we are on a long journey of evolution toward increasingly more tolerant and nonviolent behavior.
No. The purpose is not the destination but the journey itself. Only those who understand this simple truth can experience true happiness.
Marrying Martin and the movement perfected my journey of discovery, soothed my yearning to pour out the values and vision within my soul.
The value of getting to your goals lives not in reaching the goal but what the talents/strengths/capabilities the journey reveals to you.
Walking is the natural recreation for a man who desires not absolutely to suppress his intellect but to turn it out to play for a season.
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
If you want to make the most of travel to Russia, it is better to leave tight plans and preconceptions behind and just enjoy the journey.
If you travel alone, you can probably go faster. But the journey will never be as rewarding, and you probably won't be able to go as far.
I don't like to give advice. I like to give people information because everyone's life is different, and everyone's journey is different.
Real knowledge never promoted either turbulence or unbelief; but its progress is the forerunner of liberality and enlightened toleration.
The luxury we have when we do a series is that we go through a long journey, and it keeps a lot of information and things to be revealed.
The joy is in the journey, not the destination. We have a better chance of seeing where we are when we stop trying to get somewhere else.
The truth is that there is no journey. You are right now what you are attempting to be. You are right now where you are attempting to go.