"If understanding followed no rule at all, there would be no good in the understanding nor in the matter understood, and to remain in ignorance would be the greatest good."

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Source : "Mind as Machine: A History of Cognitive Science". Book by Margaret Boden (Vol 1. p. 56), 2006.

Ramon Llull

#Ignorance Quotes #Understanding Quotes #Would Be Quotes

“The unknown is the governing principle of war.”
“A civilization is always judged in its decline.”
“There is no wisdom save in truth. Truth isÂ everlasting, but our ideas about truth are changeable. Only a little of theÂ first fruits of wisdom, only a few fragments of the boundless heights, breadthsÂ and depths of truth, have I been able to gather.”
“Life lived to help others is the only life that matters.”
“I thought I was fabulous and everyone else was stupid.”
“I like to experience the universe as one harmonious whole. Every cell has life. Matter, too, has life; it is energy solidified. The tree outside is life... The whole of nature is life... The basic laws of the universe are simple, but because our senses are limited, we can't grasp them. There is a pattern in creation.”
“I like to be working and moving - the worst thing you can do to me is stick me in a room all day while you're lighting a shot. That just kills me.”
“The equality of play was a surprise-it was the most competitive race in the seven-year history of MLS.”

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