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Sequitorian Quotations
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I hate intellectuals. They are from the top down. I am from the bottom up. - Frank Lloyd Wright
"The only source of knowledge is experience" - Albert Einstein
"Reason is nothing without experience"
- David Hume
Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living. - Soren Kierkegaard
It is the experience of living that is important, not searching for meaning. - Bernie S. Siegel
The rules which
experience suggest are better than those which theorists elaborate in their libraries. - R. S. Storrs
Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are. - Vernon
Howard
Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced - even a proverb is no proverb to you till your life has
illustrated it. - John Keats
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by
reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are. - Johnsoniana. Piozzi, 154.
"A
human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet,
balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations,
analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization
is for insects." - Robert Heinlein
Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in
a closet. - Lord Chesterfield
The true division of humanity is between those who live in light and those who live
in darkness. Our aim must be to diminish the number of the latter and increase the number of the former. That is why we demand
education and knowledge. - Victor Hugo
Knowledge is power. Nam
et ipsa scientia potestas est. - Francis Bacon (1561-1626) - (Meditationes Sacræ. De Hæresibus)
"During
the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an irreconcilable conflict between knowledge
and belief. The opinion prevailed among advanced minds that it was time that belief should be replaced increasingly by knowledge;
belief that did not itself rest on knowledge was superstition, and as such had to be opposed. According to this conception,
the sole function of education was to open the way to thinking and knowing, and the school, as the outstanding organ for the
people's education, must serve that end exclusively." - Albert Einstein (Quoting Newton) ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Subjunctivist Quotations
Imagination is more important than knowledge. - Albert Einstein
To imagine is everything, to know is nothing
at all. - Anatole France
Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality. - Jules de Gaultier
I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see. - Duane Michals
Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real. - Jules Verne
Everything you can imagine is real. - Pablo
Picasso
I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- that myth is more potent than history. I believe
that dreams are more powerful than facts -- That hope always triumphs over experience. - Robert Fulghum
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2004 - The Sequitorian Society
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