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Deerfield Beach High School -- I.B. Theory of Knowledge Classes

Quotes That Make You Go Hmmm...

I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well. - Alexander the Great

The following quotations are intended to get your mind thinking about a variety of viewpoints in the areas of knowledge, philosophy, morality, sciences, politics, etc. These quotes evoke the student in me. Although these views are not necessarily my own, I hope to share with you thoughtful ideas of ALL kinds. I continually add quotes as I find intriguing ones; please feel free to send me interesting quotes as you come across them as well!!!

Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it. - Andre Gide

If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things. - Rene Descartes

The more one knows, the more one will be able to control events. - Francis Bacon

When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow you do not know it-this is knowledge. - Confucius

The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand. - Frank Herbert

If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them. - Isaac Asimov

Knowledge is more than equivalent to force. - Samuel Johnson

The new source of power is not money in the hands of the few but information in the hands of the many. - John Naisbitt

We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us. - Marcel Proust

Wisdom is perishable. Unlike information or knowledge, it cannot be stored in a computer or recorded in a book. It expires with each passing generation. - Sid Taylor

Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought. - Albert Gyorgyi

You can teach a person nothing -- you can only help him discover it within himself. - Galileo Galilei

Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought. - Henry David Thoreau

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use. - Soren Kierkegaard

If mankind minus one were of one opinion, then mankind is more justified in silencing the one than the one-if he had the power-would be justified in silencing mankind. - John Stuart Mill

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. -- Abraham Lincoln

History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people. - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side. - Aristotle

The men who create power make an indispensable contribution to the nation's greatness, but the men who question power make a contribution just as indispensable, especially when that questioning is disinterested, for they determine whether we use power or power uses us. -- John F. Kennedy

The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it. - Bertrand Russell

Philosophers say a great deal about what is absolutely necessary for science, and it is always, so far as one can see, rather naive, and probably wrong. - Richard Feynman

If I have done the public any service, it is due to patient thought. - Isaac Newton

Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time. - Hebrew proverb

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. - Andre Gide

Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right. - Isaac Asimov

I may disagree with what you have to say, but I shall defend to the death your right to say it. - Voltaire (Attributed)

There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking. - Thomas A. Edison

Inherently, each one of us has the substance within to achieve whatever our goals and dreams define. What is missing from each of us is the training, education, knowledge and insight to utilize what we already have. - Mark Twain

Creativity is a natural extension of enthusiasm. - Earl Nightingale

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. - Barbara Tuchman

If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble. - Jean-Paul Sartre

Artists do not prove things. They do not need to. They know them. - George Bernard Shaw

What is Pi? To the Mathematician, it is the number expressing the relationship between the circumference of the circle and its diameter. To the Physicist, it is 3.1415927 plus or minus 0.00000005. To the engineer, pi is about 3. - Anonymous

Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has no heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains. -- Sir Winston Churchill

Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped. - Elbert Hubbard

Reality is perceived through your own body. -- Vimalakirti Sutra

If there was no God, man would create one anyway. - Voltaire

One who knows nothing can understand nothing. - Anonymous

In your thirst for knowledge, be sure not to drown in all the information. - Anthony J. D'Angelo

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

- Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams

Everything you learned in school as "obvious" becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe. For example, there are no solids in the universe; not even the suggestion of a solid. There are no absolute continuums. There are no surfaces. There are no straight lines. - R. Buckminster Fuller

The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know. - Gaston Bachelard

Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it. - J. Robert Oppenheimer

Do not accept what you hear by report, do not accept tradition, do not accept a statement because it is found in your books, nor because it is in accord with your belief, nor because it is the saying of your teacher. Be lamps unto yourselves. Those who, either now or after I am dead, shall rely upon themselves only and not look for assistance to anyone besides themselves, it is they who shall reach the topmost height. - The Buddha

The most powerful factors in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will. -- J. Arthur Thomson

Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation. -- Woodrow Wilson

A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, is stronger than any physical force in the universe. - Wayne Dyer

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart. - Nelson Mandela

Between living and dreaming there is a third thing. Guess it. - Antonio Machado

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Truth is where the truth is, and it's sometimes in the candy store. - Bob Dylan

Truth is given, not to be contemplated, but to be done. Life is an action, not a thought. -- F.W. Robertson

History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it. -- Sir Winston Churchill

An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight... The truly wise person is color-blind. -- Albert Schweitzer

Value judgments are destructive to our proper business, which is curiosity and awareness. -- John Cage

Religion is love; in no case is it logic. - Beatrice Potter Webb

You need do nothing else--no practice, no precepts, no zazen or koan study.... If the Buddha-mind is clearly realized, that is enough. - Bankei

When you try to understand everything, you will not understand anything. The best way is to understand yourself, and then you will understand everything. - Shunryu Suzuki

Each Day In Life is Training Training For Myself Though Failure is Possible Living Each Moment Equal to Anything Ready for Everything I am Alive - I am This Moment My Future Is Here and Now For if I cannot Endure Today When and Where Will I ?

Soen Ozeki Daisen-in Zen Temple, Kyoto

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