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We do not need more intellectual power; we need more moral power. We do not need more knowledge; we need more character. We do not need more government; we need more culture. We do not need more law; we need more religion. We do not need more of the things that are seen; we need more of the things that are unseen
— Calvin Coolidge
I do not forget that my voice is but one voice, my experience a mere drop in the sea, my knowledge no greater than the visual field in a microscope.
— Carl Jung
It is with you all the time and demands fulfillment. If you pretend to be blind and dumb to this demand, you feign being blind and deaf to yourself This way you will never reach the knowledge of the heart. The knowledge ofyour heart is how your heart is. From a cunning heart you will know cunning. From a good heart you will know goodness. So that your understanding becomes perfect, consider that your heart is both good and evil. You ask, "What? Should I also live evil?
— Carl Jung
The forlorn state of consciousness in our world is due primarily to loss of instinct, and the reason for this lies in the development of the human mind over the past aeon. The more power man had over nature, the more his knowledge and skill went to his head, and the deeper became his contempt for the merely natural and accidental, for all irrational data—including the objective psyche, which is everything that consciousness is not.
— Carl Jung
We have wandered so far from fundamental spiritual knowledge in our culture that literally tens of millions of people—many of whom have long-term ties with the Christian church—have no clue how to even describe a true spiritual experience.
— George Barna
This problem is pervasive within the community of believers: Christians don't know the content of their faith and show little concern about their ignorance. This
— George Barna
He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.
— George Bernard Shaw
As a teacher of Greek I gave the intellectual man weapons against the common man. I now want to give the common man weapons against the intellectual man
— George Bernard Shaw
No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot.
— George Bernard Shaw
Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character.
— George Bernard Shaw
There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
— George Eliot
It is common knowledge that no man that women flock to boasts of his conquests. Those who do, lie.
— Isabel Allende