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Socrates quote: "One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing."
One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing. Socrates
I grant men the land, the government, the wealth, all the chances. I accept that you have to hold all the cards, since that's the only way you know how to play; but I refuse to swallow your disrespect. Pierre Beaumarchais
I make no other answer than the act, the Master said: "The only fit reply to a fit request is silence and the fact." [XXIV] Dante Alighieri
Jubilation knows and Longing grants — only Lament still learns; with girlish hands she counts the ancient evil through the nights. But suddenly, unpracticed and askant, she lifts one of our voice’s constellations Into the sky unclouded by her breath. Rainer Maria Rilke
I want to travel in Europe, Alyosha, I shall set off from here. And yet I know that I am only going to a graveyard, but it's a most precious graveyard, that's what it is! Precious are the dead that lie there, every stone over them speaks of such burning life in the past, of such passionate faith in their work, their truth, their struggle and their science, that I know I shall fall on the ground and kiss those stones and weep over them; though I'm convinced in my heart that it's long been... Fyodor Dostoevsky
Independence & self-reliance had no cultural purchase; indeed, they could scarcely be conceived, let alone prized...The best course was humbly to accept the identity to which destiny assigned you: the ploughman needed only to know how to plough, the weaver to weave, the monk to pray. Stephen Greenblatt
Jeanette Winterson quote: "I realised something important: whatever is on the outside can..."
I realised something important: whatever is on the outside can be taken away at any time. Only what is inside you is safe. Jeanette Winterson
And for all his life it would be kindness and love that made him cry, never pain or persecution, which on the contrary only reinforced his spirit and his resolution. Albert Camus
David Foster Wallace quote: "the only real significance she had attached to the memory was..."
...the only real significance she had attached to the memory was that it was funny what stuck with you. David Foster Wallace
Israbel smiled once more. It was difficult to take your gaze away from her mouth - unless you looked into her eyes; and then you could only look at those... ("Israbel") Tanith Lee
E. M. Forster quote: "Live in fragments no longer, only connect."
Live in fragments no longer, only connect. E. M. Forster
Happiness in reality consists only in rest, and not in being stirred up. This instinct conflicts with the drive to diversion, and we develop the confused idea that leads people to aim at rest through excitement. Dallas Willard
It appears to me impossible that I should cease to exist, or that this active, restless spirit, equally alive to joy and sorrow, should only be organised dust - ready to fly abroad the moment the spring snaps, or the spark goes out, which kept it together. Surely something resides in this heart that is not perishable - and life is more than a dream. Mary Wollstonecraft
Joseph Stalin quote: "I believe in only one thing,the power of human will."
I believe in only one thing,the power of human will. Joseph Stalin
...of eighteen kittens reared in the company of rodents, only three became rodent-killers later on. The other fifteen could not be trained to kill later by seeing other cats killing. For them the rodents had become 'family' and were no longer 'prey'. Even the three killers would not attack rodents of the same species as the one with which they were reared. Desmond Morris

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