Share your favorite quotes. Quotes can be from any source; including, but not limited to movies, books, television shows and from famous people.
I will start first. “I never let my schooling interfere with my education” ~Mark Twain
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“My brain is only a receiver, in the Universe there is a core from which we obtain knowledge, strength and inspiration. I have not penetrated into the secrets of this core, but I know that it exists.” - Nikola Tesla.
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This is more like a though… That gave a direction, a meaning to me.
'The more I try to define who I am, more intense is the feeling of getting far away from that answer.
(Idk where this is from)
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“When you base your expectations only on what you see, you blind yourself to the possibility of a new reality” - Zaheer (Legend of Korra).
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" Stop trying to change the world since it is only the mirror. Man’s attempt to change the world by force is as fruitless as breaking a mirror in the hope of changing his face. Leave the mirror and change your face. Leave the world alone and change your conceptions of yourself. "
“Man moves in a world that is nothing more or less than his consciousness objectified.”
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"Without going outside, you may know the whole world.
Without looking through the window, you may see the ways of heaven.
The farther you go, the less you know.
Thus the sage knows without travelling;
He sees without looking;
He works without doing."
-Lao Tzu
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The world you are able to see, is far smaller than what you imagine, while the limits of the profound way, are more so something the current you cannot imagine. Never be so naïve to think the so-called ‘fundamental knowledge’ is the truth!
If you want to become wise, you will first have to listen to the wild dogs that bark in your basement. Lao-Tse and Nietzsche
Imagination is a weapon, those who lack it are first to die
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“A mind is like a parachute. It doesn’t work If it isn’t open.“
On the Wall of an School in Vancouver, Canada.
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“The passion for truth is silenced
by words that have the weight
of undisputed authority”
- Paul Tillich
I also used this quote in my H.S. yearbook in the mid 1970’s
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