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#1

“To say that straight men are heterosexual is only to say that they engage in sex (fucking exclusively with the other sex, i.e., women). All or almost all of that which pertains to love, most straight men reserve exclusively for other men. The people whom they admire, respect, adore, revere, honor, whom they imitate, idolize, and form profound attachments to, whom they are willing to teach and from whom they are willing to learn, and whose respect, admiration, recognition, honor, reverence and love they desire… those are, overwhelmingly, other men. In their relations with women, what passes for respect is kindness, generosity or paternalism; what passes for honor is removal to the pedestal. From women they want devotion, service and sex.

Heterosexual male culture is homoerotic; it is man-loving.”
― Marilyn Frye, The Politics of Reality: Essays in Feminist Theory

tags: feminism, politics, society

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#2

“I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.”
― Maya Angelou

tags: attributed, attributed-no-source, education, intelligence, knowledge, unsourced

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#3

“For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson

tags: inspirational, values

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#4

“The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

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#5

“No thief, however skillful, can rob one of knowledge, and that is why knowledge is the best and safest treasure to acquire.”
― L. Frank Baum, The Lost Princess of Oz

tags: knowledge, thievery, treasure

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#6

“The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.”
― Daniel J. Boorstin

tags: misattributed-stephen-hawking

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#7

“It is the absence of facts that frightens people: the gap you open, into which they pour their fears, fantasies, desires.”
― Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall

tags: facts, knowledge

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#8

“I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.”
― Hermann Hesse, Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend

tags: inspiration, instinct, knowledge, search, seekers, self-awareness, self-discovery, understanding

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#9

“Knowledge, like air, is vital to life. Like air, no one should be denied it.”
― Alan Moore, V for Vendetta

tags: knowledge, life

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#10

“The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.”
― Robertson Davies, Tempest-Tost

tags: belief, bias, knowledge, perception, philosophy, reality

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#11

“Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

tags: knowledge, philosophy

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#12

“What is now proved was once only imagined.”
― William Blake

tags: english-poet, inspirational, knowledge, willpower

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#13

“Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.”
― Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man

tags: certainty, ignorance, knowledge, open-mindedness, science, willful-ignorance

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#14

“Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social enviroment. Most people are incapable of forming such opinions."

(Essay to Leo Baeck, 1953)”
― Albert Einstein

tags: disagreement, dissent, equanimity, expressing, knowledge, opinions, prejudices, social, society, thought

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#15

“Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.”
― Ronald E. Osborn

tags: knowledge, misattributed-to-emerson

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#16

“Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.”
― Johann wolfgang von Goethe

tags: knowledge

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#17

“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
― Socrates

tags: knowledge, wisdom

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#18

“The Seven Social Sins are:

Wealth without work.
Pleasure without conscience.
Knowledge without character.
Commerce without morality.
Science without humanity.
Worship without sacrifice.
Politics without principle.

From a sermon given by Frederick Lewis Donaldson in Westminster Abbey, London, on March 20, 1925.”
― Frederick Lewis Donaldson

tags: character, commerce, conscience, happiness, humanity, knowledge, misattributed-to-gandhi, money, morality, pleasure, politics, principle, sacrifice, science, sin, sins, wealth, work, worship

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#19

“Confidence is ignorance. If you're feeling cocky, it's because there's something you don't know.”
― Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl

tags: confidence, humor, ignorance, knowledge

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#20

“Great minds are always feared by lesser minds.”
― Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol

tags: knowledge

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#21

“People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care”
― Theodore Roosevelt

tags: customer-service, knowledge

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#22

“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
― William Shakespeare, As You Like It

tags: wisdom

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#23

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
― Mark Twain

tags: individuality, majority, minority, pause, reflect, wisdom

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#24

“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”
― Aristotle

tags: introspection, self-discovery, wisdom

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#25

“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
― Isaac Asimov

tags: life, science, wisdom

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#26

“In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.”
― Mark Twain

tags: bookroom, books, libraries, wisdom

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#27

“May you live every day of your life.”
― Jonathan Swift

tags: inspirational, life, philosophy, wisdom

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#28

“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
― Socrates

tags: inspiration, truth, wisdom

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#29

“There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

tags: fear, name-of-the-wind, patrick-rothfuss, wisdom

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#30

“By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.”
― Confucious

tags: wisdom

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