"It is paradoxical, yet true, to say, that the more we know, the more ignorant we become in the absolute sense, for it is only through enlightenment that we become conscious of our limitations. Precisely one of the most gratifying results of intellectual evolution is the continuous opening up of new and greater prospects."

-- Nikola Tesla

#Opening Up Quotes #Ignorant Quotes #Intellectual Quotes

“Solutions must be based on compromises.”
“Friendship doubles your joys, and divides your sorrows.”
“I am pro-life. I believe human life begins at conception. I also believe that embryonic stem cell research should be encouraged and supported.”
“Strong and rare natures are thus created; misery, almost always a stepmother, is sometimes a mother; privation gives birth to power of soul and mind; distress is the nurse of self-respect; misfortune is a good breast for great souls.”
“Never to talk about oneself is a very refined form of hypocrisy.”
“The biggest tab the public picks up for fossil fuels has to do with what economists call 'external costs,' like the health effects of air and water pollution.”
“It is terribly important to realize that the leap of faith is not so much a leap of thought as of action. For while in many matters it is first we must see then we will act; in matters of faith it is first we must do then we will know, first we will be and then we will see. One must, in short, dare to act wholeheartedly without absolute certainty.”

Source : William Sloane Coffin (2004). “Credo”, p.7, Westminster John Knox Press
“Our ability to know about ourselves and the world is what makes us human”

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