"Does the pursuit of truth give you as much pleasure as before? Surely it is not the knowing but the learning, not the possessing but the acquiring, not the being-there but the getting there that afford the greatest satisfaction. If I have exhausted something, I leave it in order to go again into the dark. Thus is that insatiable man so strange: when he has completed a structure it is not in order to dwell in it comfortably, but to start another."

-- Carl Friedrich Gauss

#Dark Quotes #Men Quotes #Knowing Quotes

“The foundations of any subject may be taught to anybody at any age in some form.”

Source : Jerome S. BRUNER (2009). “The Process of Education, Revised Edition”, p.12, Harvard University Press
“Words must surely be counted among the most powerful drugs man ever invented.”
“We believe we are entitled to the gift of the Holy Ghost in extent according to the discretion and wisdom of God and our faithfulness; which gift brings all things to our remembrance, past, present, and to come, that are necessary for us to know, and as far as our minds are prepared to receive the knowledge of God revealed by that all-wise Agent. The Holy Ghost is God's minister, and is delegated to visit the sons and daughters of men. All intelligent beings pertaining to this earth are instructed from the same source.”
“I think it's the person's conviction that really carries a person.”
“Jews don't camp...The last time the Jews went camping, they spent forty years wandering in the desert.”
“These two entitiesâ€”Fannie Mae and Freddie Macâ€”are not facing any kind of financial crisis,”
“I get so much energy and I learn so much through collaborating with other people. Ultimately, I think the best music will always be created through collaborations - pooling together skills to create something bigger than any individual. I like to use my own SOPHIE material to present ideas in their most extreme, un-compromised form. I really use those opportunities to express exactly where I'm at in terms of production and writing ideas, as a document of my thoughts and feelings, as well.”
“Man mind yoursel is the first commandment.”

Source : James Hogg (2016). “Collected Works of James Hogg: Novels, Scottish Mystery Tales & Fantasy Stories: Scottish Classics: The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, The Three Perils of Man, The Brownie of Bodsbeck, The Shepherd’s Calendar and Other Tales”, p.151, e-artnow

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