who said this quote: "Knowledge is like a ball of light. As it increases so does the circumference of darkness
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Maybe something like the more your know, or learn, the more questions you will have?
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"It takes a heap of sense to write good nonsense." ~Mark Twain\n\n"There is only one thing about which I am certain, and that is that there is very little which one can be certain."  ~W. Somerset Maugham\n\n"Education is the discovery of our own ignorance."  ~Wil Durant\n\n"Courage means a strong desire to live, taking the form of a readiness to die."  ~ G. K. Chesterton
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"Ignorance is a bliss"\n\n"It's alright to gaze at the forever continuing sky, but\nYou can't just look look at the blue sky forever"
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"Those who fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them."---George Santayana \n\nIt's not quite the quote you gave, but it's close.
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Plato quoted it:\n\n"Remember how in that communion only, beholding beauty with the eye of the mind, he will be enabled to bring forth, not images of beauty, but realities (for he has hold not of an image but of a reality), and bringing forth and nourishing true virtue to become the friend of God and be immortal, if mortal man may."\n\nN.B.: "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder."
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It comes from the Bible--\nFor in much wisdom is much grief, and he who increases knowledge increases sorrow."  ~Ecclesiastes 1:18
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Ah did not have **** relayshuns with that wummun, Miss Lewinsky. (sorry :-)\n\nHere's a better one:\n\n"If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace."\n\nF.D. Roosevelt.
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Thats from Harry Potter it's a quote from Prof. Severus Snape. The half blood prince ch.9, page. 169.
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The correct quote is actually:\n\n "Laughter is good for the soil"\n\n                 - Gregor Mendel
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My favorite is by Abraham Lincoln:\n\n"I guess a man is just about as happy as he makes up his mind to be."\n\nThen there's the common quoted:\n"Happiness is chocolate."\n\nB. Franklin said, "Every man is entitled to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."
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Yes it is but the concept is -\n\nthat the more you know and the more you learn ,the more you realise how litttle you know.\nAnd at the end of the day ,the very wise man who has learned all his life ,and who knows just about everything,realises that in the great scheme of things ,he still knows nothing.\n\nBecause by then he really knows how much there is to know,and how far away, he still is from knowing everything
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Famous quote: "The only difference between genius and insanity is that genius has limits" -Einstein\n\nNot so famous quote: "I hate it when carrots do ballet" -little bro
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"What is important in life is life, and not the result of life."\nJohann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The Hermit's Lamp is Wisdom, and Yod is the flame of that lamp.\n\nYod is:\n\nAn open hand\nThe Flame of Wisdom\nThe Fire of God\nThe Supreme Godhead\nThe mature male principle\nGod the Father
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"Next the statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception."...The Mysterious Stranger\n\n-Mark Twain
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Johann Wolfgang Von Goeth \nwrote that and its more than a quote.\nWe do not stop playing because we grow old\nwe grow old because we stop playing\nlive like there is no tommorow\nlove like youve never been hurt \nand dance like no one is watching\nwhat does not kill me makes me stronger.\n\nWonderful isnt it?
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"The rate at which a person can mature is directly proportional to the embarrassment he can tolerate"\n......(by --dont remember)\n\n"Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something"\n......Plato \n\n"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world;\nThe unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.\nTherefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man"\n......George Bernard Shaw\n\n"Feel like Christ and you will be a Christ; feel like Buddha and you will be a Buddha. It is feeling that is the life, the strength, the vitality, without which no amount of intellectual activity can reach God"\n......Swami Vivekananda\n\n\nhope u like them........good day