We all

“We all not only could know everything. We do. We just tell ourselves we don't to make it all bearable.”

~Neil Gaiman

Imagination

"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."

~Albert Einstein

Whoever undertakes

"Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods."

~Albert Einstein

I want

“I want to know one thing”

~Pablo Picasso

Only as a warrior

“Only as a warrior can one survive the path of knowledge,” don Juan said. “Because the art of a warrior is to balance the terror of being a man with the wonder of being a man.”

- Carlos Castaneda, Journey to Ixtlan

Willing is not enough

Willing is not enough;
we must do.
Knowing is not enough;
we must apply.

~Bruce Lee

It is better

It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing.

~Seneca

Knowing others

"Knowing others is intelligence;
knowing yourself is true wisdom.
Mastering others is strength;
mastering yourself is true power.
If you realize that you have enough,
you are truly rich.
If you stay in the centre and embrace death with your whole heart,
you will endure forever."

~Lao-tzu

Without knowing

Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible.

~Leo Tolstoy

The mind's first step

The mind's first step to self-awareness must be through the body.

~George Sheehan

Knowledge

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

~Carl Jung

Who

Who in the world am I?
Ah, that's the great puzzle.

~Lewis Carroll

If you don't

If you don't know where you are going,
any road will get you there.

~Lewis Carroll

At the center

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At the center of your being you have the answer;

you know who you are and you know what you want.

~Lao Tzu

Miracles happen

"Miracles happen, not in opposition to Nature,
but in opposition to what we know of Nature."

- St. Augustine

Trying

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

~Alan Watts

It seems that

It seems that I know that I know. What I would like to see is the 'I' that knows me when I know that I know that I know.

~Alan Watts

I erect myself

I erect myself at the exact point where knowledge meets madness, and I can erect no safety rail.

—BALZAC

Fear is a question

"Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, our fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if we explore them."

-- Marilyn Ferguson

Know the enemy

“Know the enemy and know yourself; in a hundred battles you will never be in peril. When you are ignorant of the enemy, but know yourself, your chances of winning or losing are equal. If ignorant both of your enemy and yourself, you are certain in every battle to be in peril.”

– Sun Tzu