Quote by Karl Jaspers
I began the study of medicine, impelled by a desire for knowledge

I began the study of medicine, impelled by a desire for knowledge of facts and of man. The resolution to do disciplined work tied me to both laboratory and clinic for a long time to come. – Karl Jaspers

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The history of philosophy is not, like the history of the sciences, to be studied with the intellect alone. That which is receptive in us and that which impinges upon us from history is the reality of mans being, unfolding itself in thought. – Karl Jaspers

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If philosophy is practice, a demand to know the manner in which its history is to be studied is entailed: a theoretical attitude toward it becomes real only in the living appropriation of its contents from the texts. – Karl Jaspers

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We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about. – Eric Hoffer

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Doubt is the middle position between knowledge and ignorance. It encompasses cynicism but also genuine questioning. – Vera Farmiga

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Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases. – Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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The general knowledge of time on the island depends, curiously enough, on the direction of the wind. – John Millington Synge

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True enough, nature has endowed me with a fair measure of patience and composure, yet I should be lying if I told you that, having seen the reporter off on his way to make his deadline, I fell peacefully asleep. – Leon Jouhaux

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