| Much learning does not teach understanding. -- Heraclitus |
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HeraclitusEra:
-535 |
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| I am very sure that any man of common understanding may, by culture, care, attention, and labor, make himself what- ever he pleases, except a great poet. -- Lord Chesterfield |
| Author:
Chesterfield, LordEra:
1694 |
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| Know thou the self (spirit) as riding in a chariot, The body as the chariot. Know thou the intellect as the chariot-driver, And the mind as the reins. The senses, they say, are the horses; The objects of sense, what they range over. The self combined with senses and mind Wise men call "the enjoyer." -- Upanishads |
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UpanishadsEra:
-800 |
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| One man is equivalent to all Creation. One man is a World in miniature. -- Nathan |
| Author:
NathanEra:
200 |
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| If thou wouldst preserve understanding and health to old age, avoid the allurements of Voluptuousness, and fly from her temptations...For if thou hearkenest unto the words of the Adversary, thou art deceived and betrayed. The joy which she promiseth changeth to madness, and her enjoyments lead on to diseases and death. -- Akhenaton |
| Author:
AkhenatonEra:
-1375 |
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| If it were in my power, I would be wiser; but a newly felt power carries me off in spite of myself; love leads me one way, my understanding another. -- Ovid |
| Author:
OvidEra:
-43 |
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