Quote by Xun Zi
If knowledge and foresight are too penetrating and deep, unify the

If knowledge and foresight are too penetrating and deep, unify them with ease and sincerity. – Xun Zi

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In antiquity the sage kings recognized that mens nature is bad and that their tendencies were not being corrected and their lawlessness controlled. – Xun Zi

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Nature
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Xun Zi
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Therefore, a person should first be changed by a teachers instructions, and guided by principles of ritual. Only then can he observe the rules of courtesy and humility, obey the conventions and rules of society, and achieve order. – Xun Zi

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Society
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The coming of honor or disgrace must be a reflection of ones inner power. – Xun Zi

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power
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Knowledge
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I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge. – Igor Stravinsky

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If you first fortify yourself with the true knowledge of the Universal Self, and then live in the midst of wealth and worldliness, surely they will in no way affect you. – Ramakrishna

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Knowledge

The frontiers of knowledge in the various fields of our subject are expanding at such a rate that, work as hard as one can, one finds oneself further and further away from an understanding of the whole. – James Meade

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Knowledge

Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves. – Josh Billings

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All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination. – Carl Jung

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It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength. – Michel de Montaigne

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To some extent I liken slavery to death. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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The body of a sensualist is the coffin of a dead soul. – Christian Nevell Bovee

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