"Indeed he knows not how to know who knows not also how to un-know."

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Source : Sir Richard Francis Burton (1894). “The Kasîdah (couplets) of Hâjî Abdû Al-Yazdi: A Lay of the Higher Law”

Richard Francis Burton

#Knowledge Quotes

“Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners.”
“When you make a film you usually make a film about an idea.”
“Only the first swath cut by the scythe is difficult.”
“War is all we've been taught, but there are other ways to live. We can find them, Akiva. We can invent them. This is the beginning, here." She touched his chest and felt a rush of love for the heart that moved his blood, for his smooth skin and his scars and his unsoldierly tenderness. She took his hand and pressed it to her breast and said, "We are the beginning.”
“To the end of history, social orders will probably destroy themselves in an effort to prove they are indestructible.”
“Waiting prayer, or waiting on the Lord, is the silent surrendering of the soul to God. It is wordless worship. It is seeking God not from without but from within. It is to seek God in your heart.”

Source : Jaeson Ma (2007). “The Blueprint: A Revolutionary Plan to Plant Missional Communities on Campus”, p.77, Gospel Light Publications
“We cannot rise higher than our thought of ourselves.”
“Magic is always there. Sometimes it just takes an artist to find it and show the rest of us where to look.”

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