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    Leonardo da Vinci
    “Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.”
    ― Leonardo da Vinci
    tags: education, schooling, university
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    Lao Tzu
    “The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth.”
    ― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
    tags: apothegm, beauty, truth
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    Leonardo da Vinci
    “The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.”
    ― Leonardo da Vinci
    tags: art
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    Leonardo da Vinci
    “I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.”
    ― Leonardo da Vinci
    tags: knowing, urgency, willing
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    Leonardo da Vinci
    “It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.”
    ― Leonardo da Vinci
    tags: procrastination, resistance
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    Leonardo da Vinci
    “One has no right to love or hate anything if one has not acquired a thorough knowledge of its nature. Great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you know it but little you will be able to love it only a little or not at all.”
    ― Leonardo DaVinci
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    Vivekananda
    “Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life; dream of it; think of it; live on that idea. Let the brain, the body, muscles, nerves, every part of your body be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success, and this is the way great spiritual giants are produced.”
    ― Swami Vivekananda, Vedanta Philosophy: Lectures by the Swami Vivekananda on Raja Yoga Also Pantanjali's Yoga Aphorisms, with Commentaries, and Glossary of Sanskrit Terms
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    Albert Einstein
    “Out of clutter, find simplicity.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: clutter, difficulty, discord, harmony, oppurtunity, work
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    Lao Tzu
    “Manifest plainness,
    Embrace simplicity,
    Reduce selfishness,
    Have few desires.”
    ― Lao Tzu
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    Lao Tzu
    “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”
    ― Lao Tzu
    tags: travel
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    Lao Tzu
    “Time is a created thing. To say 'I don't have time,' is like saying, 'I don't want to.”
    ― Lao Tzu
    tags: time
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    Lao Tzu
    “Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.”
    ― Lao Tzu
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    Lao Tzu
    “Do you have the patience to wait until your mud settles and the water is clear?”
    ― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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    Richard P. Feynman
    “Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.”
    ― Richard Feynmann
    tags: curiosity, learning, scholarship
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    Leonardo da Vinci
    “The knowledge of all things is possible”
    ― Leonardo da Vinci
    tags: creativity, curiosity, knowledge, learning
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    Lao Tzu
    “Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.”
    ― Lao Tzu
    tags: acceptance, change, life, reality, serenity
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    Lao Tzu
    “When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everyone will respect you.”
    ― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
    tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, integrity, self-reliance, self-respect
    3191 likes

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    Lao Tzu
    “Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner.”
    ― Lao Tzu
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    Lao Tzu
    “I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.”
    ― Lao Tzu
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “There are no facts, only interpretations.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
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    Isaac Asimov
    “Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.”
    ― Isaac Asimov, Foundation
    tags: humor, inspirational, philosophy, wisdom
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    Immanuel Kant
    “We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.”
    ― Immanuel Kant
    tags: contentment, poverty, riches
    1180 likes

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    Immanuel Kant
    “Rules for happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.”
    ― Immanuel Kant
    tags: happiness, happy-life, hope, inspirational, life, love
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    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: life
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    Immanuel Kant
    “I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith.”
    ― Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason
    tags: deny, faith, knowledge
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    Immanuel Kant
    “All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.”
    ― immanuel kant, Critique of Pure Reason
    tags: empiricism, knowledge, rationalism, reason, senses, understanding
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    Immanuel Kant
    “For peace to reign on Earth, humans must evolve into new beings who have learned to see the whole first.”
    ― Immanuel Kant
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    Immanuel Kant
    “Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person.”
    ― Immanuel Kant
    tags: brilliance, education, genius, independent, intellect, intelligence, self-education, taught, teaching
    229 likes



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