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#1

“Last night I lost the world, and gained the universe.”
― C. JoyBell C.

tags: enlightenment, forgiveness, inspirational-quotes, knowledge, letting-go

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#2

“The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.”
― Anais Nin

tags: knowledge, mystery, sense-of-wonder, spirituality

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#3

“Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else ... Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.”
― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

tags: communication, foolishness, knowledge, sharing, teaching, wisdom

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#4

“All knowledge hurts.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

tags: city-of-bones, disillusionment, experience, knowledge, wisdom

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#5

“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

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

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#6

“For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.”
― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

tags: cosmology, delusion, knowledge, religion, science, truth, understanding

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#7

“If you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to happen next—if you knew in advance the consequences of your own actions—you'd be doomed. You'd be ruined as God. You'd be a stone. You'd never eat or drink or laugh or get out of bed in the morning. You'd never love anyone, ever again. You'd never dare to.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

tags: foresight, knowledge, women

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#8

“Knowledge is power. Power to do evil...or power to do good. Power itself is not evil. So knowledge itself is not evil.”
― Veronica Roth, Allegiant

tags: evil, good, knowledge, power

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#9

“It occurs to me that the peculiarity of most things we think of as fragile is how tough they truly are. There were tricks we did with eggs, as children, to show how they were, in reality, tiny load-bearing marble halls; while the beat of the wings of a butterfly in the right place, we are told, can create a hurricane across an ocean. Hearts may break, but hearts are the toughest of muscles, able to pump for a lifetime, seventy times a minute, and scarcely falter along the way. Even dreams, the most delicate and intangible of things, can prove remarkable difficult to kill.”
― Neil Gaiman, Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders

tags: dreams, fragility

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#10

“The view changes from where you are standing.
Words can wound, and wounds can heal.
All of these things are true.”
― Neil Gaiman, Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders

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#11

“There are so many fragile things, after all. People break so easily, and so do dreams and hearts.”
― Neil Gaiman, Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders

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#12

“There are some as are what they are. And there are some as aren't what they seem to be. And there are some as only seem to be what they seem to be.”
― Neil Gaiman, Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders

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#13

“Recounting the strange is like telling one's dreams: one can communicate the events of a dream, but not the emotional content, the way that a dream can colour one's entire day.”
― Neil Gaiman, Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders

tags: dreams

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#14

“Nothing, like something, happens anywhere.”
― Neil Gaiman, Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders

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#15

“On the whole, stories don't write themselves.”
― Neil Gaiman, Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders

tags: writing

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#16

“Nobody gets through life without losing a few things on the way.”
― Neil Gaiman, Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders

tags: life

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#17

“Everything he had ever done that had been better left undone. Every lie he had told — told to himself, or told to others. Every little hurt, and all the great hurts. Each one was pulled out of him, detail by detail, inch by inch. The demon stripped away the cover of forgetfulness, stripped everything down to truth, and it hurt more than anything.”
― Neil Gaiman, Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders

tags: demon, forgetfulness, hurt, lie, truth

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#18

“For the record, I don't expect you to believe any of this. Not really. I'm a liar by trade, after all; albeit, I like to think, an honest liar.”
― Neil Gaiman, Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders

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#19

“He had read books, newspapers and magazines. He knew that if you ran away you sometimes met bad people who did bad things to you; but he had also read fairy tales, so he knew that there were kind people out there, side by side with the monsters.”
― Neil Gaiman, Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders

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#20

“Remember your name. Do not lose hope —- what you seek will be found. Trust ghosts. Trust those that you have helped to help you in their turn. Trust dreams. Trust your heart, and trust your story.”
― Neil Gaiman, Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders

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#21

“What do I do now?”
“I don’t know. Fade away, perhaps. Or find another role.”
― Neil Gaiman, Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders

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#22

“I watch with envious eyes and mind, the single-souled who dare not feel
The wind that blows beyond the moon, who do not hear the fairy reel”
― Neil Gaiman, Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders

tags: fantasy, poetry, poignant

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#23

“To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: this skill is most needful in times of stress and darkness.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness

tags: ambiguity, certainty, humility, knowledge, policy

936 likes

#24

“I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.”
― Isaac Newton

tags: human-nature, ignorance, knowledge, wisdom

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#25

“Conquer the angry one by not getting angry; conquer the wicked by goodness; conquer the stingy by generosity, and the liar by speaking the truth.

[Verse 223]”
― Siddhārtha Gautama, The Dhammapada

tags: anger, generosity, goodness, inspirational, kindness, knowledge, love, truth, wisdom

584 likes

#26

“Opinion is really the lowest form of human knowledge. It requires no accountability, no understanding. The highest form of knowledge… is empathy, for it requires us to suspend our egos and live in another’s world. It requires profound purpose larger than the self kind of understanding.”
― Bill Bullard

tags: accountability, ego, empathy, inspirational, knowledge, opinion

587 likes

#27

“What transforms this world is — knowledge. Do you see what I mean? Nothing else can change anything in this world. Knowledge alone is capable of transforming the world, while at the same time leaving it exactly as it is. When you look at the world with knowledge, you realize that things are unchangeable and at the same time are constantly being transformed.”
― Yukio Mishima, The Temple of the Golden Pavilion

tags: knowledge, stillness, transformation

565 likes

#28

“Always forgive, but never forget, else you will be a prisoner of your own hatred, and doomed to repeat your mistakes forever.”
― Wil Zeus, Sun Beyond the Clouds

tags: forgiveness, happiness, inspirational, knowledge, life, philosophy, truth, wisdom

429 likes

#29

“Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.”
― Frank Herbert

tags: belief, kindlehighlight, knowledge, manipulation, propoganda, truth

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#30

“Real magic can never be made by offering someone else's liver. You must tear out your own, and not expect to get it back.”
― Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn

tags: inspirational, magic, reminding, sacrifice

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