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Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Stichwörter: philosophy children the-little-prince antoine-de-saint-exupery adults

Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy.

Alexandre Dumas

Stichwörter: knowledge philosophy

Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life.

Aristotle

Stichwörter: art philosophy literature

Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.

Democritus

Stichwörter: science philosophy

All men by nature desire to know.

Aristotle

Stichwörter: knowledge philosophy

Maybe sometimes we don't do the right thing because the wrong thing looks more dangerous, and we don't want to look scared, so we go and do the wrong thing just because it's dangerous. We're more concerned with not looking scared than with judging right.

Philip Pullman

Stichwörter: fear philosophy

All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge.

Leonardo da Vinci

Stichwörter: science knowledge philosophy maxims

...only in the surrender of the light could the darkness prevail.

David Eddings

Stichwörter: philosophy fantasy

Ain't no sense worryin' about the things you got control over, 'cause if you got control over 'em, ain't no sense worryin'. And ain't no sense worryin' about the things you don't got control over, 'cause if you don't got control over 'em, ain't no sense worryin'.

Mickey Rivers

Stichwörter: philosophy