"Since we cannot be universal and know..." - Quote by Blaise Pascal
Since we cannot be universal and know all that is to be known of everything, we ought to know a little about everything. For it is far better to know something about everything than to know all about one thing. This universality is the best. If we can have both, still better; but if we must choose, we ought to choose the former.
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“Silence is the greatest persecution; never do the saints keep themselves silent.”
“Since [man] is infinitely removed from comprehending the extremes, the end of things and their beginning are hopelessly hidden from him in an impenetrable secret; he is equally incapable of seeing the nothing from which he was made, and the infinite in which he is swallowed up.”
“All of our miseries prove our greatness. They are the miseries of a dethroned monarch.”
More on Knowledge
“Nor seek, for this is also sooth,To hunger fiercely after truth,Lest all thy toiling only breedsNew dreams, new dreams; there is no truthSaving in thine own heart.”
“If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could to-day.”
“To the Master's honor all must turn, each in its track, without a sound, forever tracing Newton's ground.”
More on Learning
“I have never met a man who was not my superior in some particular.”
“Just like I described in health care, yeah, somebody comes in, they got new ideas, maybe ideas that are completely opposite of my ideas. Maybe some of it goes, maybe some of that progress goes back. Maybe they think of some things we didn't think of, and so in some other areas - we can learn something.”
“True education is a kind of never-ending story . . .”