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It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows. ↗

— Epictetus

#begin #impossible #knows #learn #thinks

Whoever knows that the mind is a fiction and devoid of anything real knows that his own mind neither exists nor doesn't exist. ↗

— Bodhidharma

#devoid #exist #exists #fiction #his

Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#daily life #deep #exists #knows #life

Earmarks have become a symbol of a Congress that has broken faith with the people. This earmark ban shows the American people we are listening and we are dead serious about ending business as usual in Washington. ↗

— John Boehner

#american #american people #ban #become #broken

God knows how many things a man misses by becoming smug and assuming that matters will take their own course. ↗

— Loren Eiseley

#becoming #course #god #how #knows

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#intellectual #knows #man #more #necessary

When my daughter asks, 'What do you do?', every movie I have a different answer. As she grows, she wants more explanations. ↗

— Michelle Williams

#asks #daughter #different #every #explanations

Now why should the cinema follow the forms of theater and painting rather than the methodology of language, which allows wholly new concepts of ideas to arise from the combination of two concrete denotations of two concrete objects? ↗

— Sergei Eisenstein

#arise #cinema #combination #concepts #concrete

My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious. ↗

— Karl Kraus

#consciousness #his #knows #more #psychologist

For a long time, my shows were about people walking out or about getting my gigs canceled or having the presenter not wanting to pay me. ↗

— Eric Bogosian

#canceled #getting #gigs #having #long