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The true value of man is not determined by his possession, supposed or real, of Truth, but rather by his sincere exertion to get to the Truth. It is not possession of Truth by which he extends his powers and in which his ever-growing perfectability is to be found. Possession makes one passive, indolent and proud. If God were to hold all Truth concealed in his right hand, and in his left only the steady and diligent drive for Truth, albeit with the proviso that I would always and forever err in the process, and to offer me the choice, I would with all humility take the left hand. ↗

— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

#knowledge #searching #truth #inspirational

You know, the media and politicians are always gonna be in a bit of tension with one another and probably most of the time that's healthy and indeed even creative. But it's where - it's really when news organisations are used as kind of instruments of politics that it gets tricky. ↗

— Tony Blair

#another #bit #creative #even #gets

Very interesting for an old duffer like me to try his hand at something new. If I don't do that once in a while, I might just turn into a fossil, you know! ↗

— Norman Rockwell

#hand #his #i #interesting #into

For he or she that harbours no fear has never truly loved anything. You can only measure true love by the thought and fear of its loss. ↗

— Chris Jirika

#feelings-of-weakness #motivational-inspirational #inspirational

The thirst for knowledge is like a piece of ass you know you shouldn't chase; in the end, you chase it just the same. ↗

— George Pelecanos

#truth #men

Thus we have on stage two men, each of whom knows nothing of what he believes the other knows, and to deceive each other reciprocally both speak in allusions, each of the two hoping (in vain) that the other holds the key to his puzzle. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#games #knowledge #truth #men

Knowledge can be acquired by a suitable and complete study, no matter what the starting point is. Only one must know how to 'learn.' What is nearest to us is man; and you are the nearest of all men to yourself. Begin with the study of yourself; remember the saying 'Know thyself. ↗

— G.I. Gurdjieff

#self-knowledge #men

Men command the world that they know . Everything that men know they make their own. Everything that they learn, they claim for themselves. They are like the alchemists who took for the laws that govern the world, and then want to own them and keep them secret. Everything they discover,they hug to themselves: they shape knowledge into their own selfish image. What is left to us women but the realms of the unknown? ↗

— Philippa Gregory

#men #occult-and-women #men

I know certain truths about life. ↗

— Dana Reinhardt

#knowledge #life #truth #inspirational

Most of us who turn to any subject with love remember some morning or evening hour when we got on a high stool to reach down an untried volume, or sat with parted lips listening to a new talker, or for very lack of books began to listen to the voices within, as the first traceable beginning of our love. ↗

— George Eliot

#inspiration #knowledge #passion #inspirational