"Knowledge is power." Rather, knowledge is happiness,..." - Quote by Helen Keller
Knowledge is power." Rather, knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge - broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man's progress is to feel the great heart-throbs of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life.
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“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.”
“The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next. Mere tolerance has given place to a sentiment of brotherhood between sincere men of all denominations.”
“What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.”
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“When you learn, teach, when you get, give.”
“People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.”
“One of the things that distinguishes man from the other animals is that he wants to know things, wants to find out what reality is like, simply for the sake of knowing. When that desire is completely quenched in anyone, I think he has become something less than human.”
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“But what are years, what are months!" he would exclaim. "Why count the days, when even one day is enough for man to know all happiness.”
“Character gives us qualities, but it is in our actions — what we do — that we are happy or the reverse.”
“The civilization of a state should be measured by the amount of suffering it prevents and the degree of happiness it makes possible for its citizens.”