"I do not like to state an..." - Quote by Albert Einstein
I do not like to state an opinion on a matter unless I know the precise facts.
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“Compassionate people are geniuses in the art of living, more necessary to the dignity, security, and joy of humanity than the discoverers of knowledge.”
“To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization.”
“Strange is our situation here upon earth.”
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“'Twas but my tongue, 'twas not my soul that swore.”
“The way is near, but men seek it afar. It is in easy things, but men seek for it in difficult things.”
“We have heard of a Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. It is said that knowledge is power, and the like. Methinks there is equal need of a Society for the Diffusion of Useful Ignorance, what we will call Beautiful Knowledge, a knowledge useful in a higher sense: for what is most of our boasted so-called knowledge but a conceit that we know something, which robs us of the advantage of our actual ignorance? What we call knowledge is often our positive ignorance; ignorance our negative knowledge.”
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“The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.”
“What can we see, read, acquire, but ourselves. Take the book, my friend, and read your eyes out, you will never find there what I find.”
“Philosophy is empty if it isn't based on science. Science discovers, philosophy interprets.”