Of course, 1+1 makes 2 and blue to yellow gives green. But if we forget for a while the abstract knowledge or the laws of nature, and focus on the knowledge of particular situations, events, persons etc., then we can observe that it is almost never: I know; it is practically always: I believe.Humans and all the intelligent creatures of this world operate through beliefs, more or less justified, more or less true, more or less convincing. Because the biological apparatus of one hundred percent accuracy has not yet been invented in nature. And it never will. A PHILOSOPHICAL KALEIDOSCOPE: Thoughts, Contemplations, Aphorisms
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Quote:- Of course, being brave does not mean running towards danger.
Finbo
Author:- Janaki Sooriyarachchi
Category:- knowledge
Quote:- Of course, every organ in your body matters. Except your feet and your hands. You can still live without them. They are part of you, but not the real YOU.
Author:- Mwanandeke Kindembo
Category:- Life
Quote:- Of course, I couldn’t explain this vector calculus concept and so, slightly embarrassed in front of Rahul and the other Bengali students, I told Sanjit just that; he had cornered me, and honesty emerged as my only option. Simultaneous to my humiliating disclosure of the truth, Sanjit gradually inched toward where I was sitting. After hearing my reply, he slowly returned to his teacher stool and whiteboard, his back turned away from the class, the suspense building and his words impending, before turning around and breaking into speech, Don’t trust your interior monologue. If you are asked something and you know it, then express or demonstrate it. Don’t just nod or say yes because then you are lying to yourself. Any ass can say yes, but not all asses can express it. I modified my first impression: Sanjit was full of explicit aphorisms. Humbled, those words encouragingly rang between my ears for quite some time.
The Local School
Author:- Colin Phelan
Category:- poetry,philosophy
Quote:- Of course, it comes down to a little creativity and a lot of motivation. The creativity is inside all of us. The motivation is rougher.
Simple Things
Author:- Jim Brickman
Category:- motivational
Quote:- Of course, it wasn't possible to account for all the time. By the time you had written down what time it was, it was already later than it had been.
The Idiot
Author:- Elif Batuman
Category:- time
Quote:- Of course, supernatural acts are what miracles are all about. They are, after all, precisely those things that circumvent the laws of nature. A god who can create the laws of nature can presumably also circumvent them at will. Although why they would have been circumvented so liberally thousands of years ago, before the invention of modern communication instruments that could have recorded them, and not today, is still something to wonder about.
A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing
Author:- Lawrence M. Krauss
Category:- science,philosophy
Quote:- Of course, the Capital had not changed. It was Ari who had changed, who in her eleven years had already become older and wiser than many had the burden to be at any age. The brown shingles still gleamed in the sun and the cobblestones still felt smooth and pure beneath her feet, but she saw new things, she saw more. It was a movement of minds, of arms, of business that now passed before her watchful eyes. It may not have been magic, but it was still knowledge, and it was still secrets.
A Memory of Light
Author:- Allyson S. Barkley
Category:- knowledge
Quote:- Of course, there will always be those who look only at technique, who ask 'how', while others of a more curious nature will ask 'why'. Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.
Author:- Man Ray
Category:- inspiration
Quote:- Of course. You get everything from books.
Out of Oz
Author:- Gregory Maguire
Category:- knowledge
Quote:- Of Equality--as if it harm'd me, giving others the same chances and rights as myself--as if it were not indispensable to my own rights that others possess the same.
Leaves of Grass
Author:- Walt Whitman
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- Of my many misdemeanors, standing tall like a radio tower and airing love songs has been the worst.
Lover
Author:- Sakshi Narula
Category:- Love
Quote:- Of the many forms that silence takes, the most memorable is the dry husk of the cicada.
Author:- Jon Davis
Category:- poetry
Quote:- Of the two powers, the two categories that take possession of us when we enter the world, space is by far the less mysterious. . . . Space is, after all, solid, monolithic. . . . Time, on the other hand, is a hostile element, truly treacherous, I would say even against human nature.
Highcastle: A Remembrance
Author:- Stanisław Lem
Category:- time
Quote:- Of this I am sure.....if the sky goes unlighted ..as the sun goes to sleep....the stars would appear....for they are the signature of God......
Author:- Jayita Bhattacharjee
Category:- hope
Quote:- Of two sisters one is always the watcher, one the dancer.
Descending Figure
Author:- Louise Glück
Category:- poetry
Quote:- Of what a strange nature is knowledge! It clings to a mind when it has once seized on it like a lichen on a rock." - Frankenstein p115
Frankenstein
Author:- Mary Shelley
Category:- knowledge
Quote:- Of what a strange nature is knowledge! It clings to the mind, when it has once seized on it, like a lichen on the rock. I wished sometimes to shake off all thought and feeling; but I learned that there was but one means to overcome the sensation of pain, and that was death -- a state which I feared yet did not understand.
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text
Author:- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Category:- knowledge