Knowledge And Understanding

Real knowledge is to

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Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance. Confucius

A physician who fails

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A physician who fails to enter the body of a patient with the lamp of knowledge and understanding can never treat diseases. He should first study all the factors, including environment, which influence a patient’s disease, and then prescribe treatment. It is more important to prevent the occurrence of disease than to seek a cure. … Read more

Everything that irritates us

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Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. Carl Jung

Any classification according to

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Any classification according to a singular identity polarizes people in a particular way, but if we take note of the fact that we have many different identities – related not just to religion but also to language, occupation and business, politics, class and poverty, and many others – we can see that the polarization of … Read more

Knowledge comes, but wisdom

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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. Alfred Lord Tennyson

All civilization in a

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All civilization in a sense exists only in the mind. Gunpowder, textile arts, machinery, laws, telephones are not themselves transmitted from man to man or from generation to generation, at least not permanently. It is the perception, the knowledge and understanding of them, their ideas in the Platonic sense, that are passed along. Everything social … Read more