Research is like swimming. If you stop swimming you will never make it to the other side. If you stop researching you will never make it to discovery.
Sustained research will lead you to discovery.
We all know that birth ultimately ends with death.
We all know that birth is the start of the illness, disease and death processes.
Another extraordinary similarity concerns the presence of Seven Sages in both the Sumerian and Vedic traditions. Most ancient societies, I concede, had their sages or seers or wise men -- in India they were, and still are, called rishis. But it seems to me to be stretching coincidence too far to find a group specifically named the 'Seven Sages' prominently associated with two separate ancient cultures and to imagine that this did not come about through some sort of connection. In the case of Sumer the Seven Sages were depicted as amphibian, 'fish-garbed' beings who emerged from the sea in antediluvian times to teach wisdom to mankind. In the case of the Vedas the focus is not on the antediluvian period but on the flood itself and those antediluvians who are claimed to have survived it, namely Manu and the Seven Sages.
Question convention.
It is infinitely harder to ask questions in such a way that the audience is led not to the answers (the province of the demagogue) but to new perceptions.
Knowledge is having a wide range of past history, whereas wisdom is being able to apply history to the present and the future.
Active faith is having the wisdom to know that you can develop future knowledge to alleviate your currently incurable sickness.
Discovery comes from a lot of failures, knowledge, wisdom, faith, and a dose of craziness.
Being famous is not the same as being right.
Sometimes we have to be wrong before we can be right.
A little learning is a dangerous thing. Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian Spring; There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking largely sobers us again.
So runs my dream, but what am I? An infant crying in the night An infant crying for the light And with no language but a cry.
Poetry and art and knowledge are sacred and pure.
Show me slowly what I only know the limits of Dance me to the end of love
No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.
I am a student of life, and don't want to miss any experience. There's poetry in this sort of thing, you know--or perhaps you don't know, but it's all the same.
A lover exists only in fragments, a dozen or so if the romance is new, a thousand if we're married to him, and out of those fragments our heart constructs an entire person. What we each create, since whatever is missing is filled by our imagination, is the person we wish him to be. The less we know him, of course, the more we love him. And that's why we always remember that first rapturous night when he was a stranger, and why this rapture returns only when he's dead.
The dead know everything but they don't give a damn.
