"Knowledge and understanding are life's faithful companions..." - Quote by Khalil Gibran
Knowledge and understanding are life's faithful companions who will never prove untrue to you. For knowledge is your crown, and understanding your staff; and when they are with you, you can possess no greater treasures.
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“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.”
“I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.”
“Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.”
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“How empty is theory in the presence of fact!”
“In order to arrive at knowledge of the motions of birds in the air, it is first necessary to acquire knowledge of the winds, which we will prove by the motions of water in itself, and this knowledge will be a step enabling us to arrive at the knowledge of beings that fly between the air and the wind.”
“It is a gratification to me to know that I am ignorant of art... Because people who understand art find nothing in pictures but blemishes.”
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“I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person.”
“One can enjoy a rainbow without necessarily forgetting the forces that made it.”
“When you really understand that you are what you see and know, you do not run around the countryside thinking, "I am all this!" There is simply all this.”