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«Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.»
Author: Hermann Hesse
(Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Knowledge,
Teachers and teaching,
Wisdom
| Keywords:
communicate, communicated, fortified, fortifies, fortifying, wonders
«Strange as it may seem, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it.»
«Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.»
Author: Sydney Smith
(Clergyman, Essayist, Wit)
| About:
Friendship,
Life
| Keywords:
existence, fortified, fortifies, fortifying, friendships
«A true friend knows your weaknesses but shows you your strengths; feels your fears but fortifies your faith; sees your anxieties but frees your spirit; recognizes your disabilities but emphasizes your possibilities.»
Author: William Arthur Ward
| Keywords:
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«The object of preaching is to constantly remind mankind of what they keep forgetting; not to supply the intellect, but to fortify the feebleness of human resolutions.»
Author: Sydney Smith
(Clergyman, Essayist, Wit)
| Keywords:
feebleness, fortified, fortifies, fortify, fortifying, preaching, remind, resolutions, supply, The Object of
«Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.»
Author: George Santayana
(Humanist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Religion
| Keywords:
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«Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.»
«A man may by custom fortify himself against pain, shame, and suchlike accidents; but as to death, we can experience it but once, and are all apprentices when we come to it»
Author: Michel de Montaigne
(Philosopher, Writer)
| Keywords:
accidents, apprentice, apprentices, fortified, fortifies, fortify, fortifying, suchlike
«It would be a thousand pities if women wrote like men, or lived like men, or looked like men, for if two sexes are quite inadequate, considering the vastness and variety of the world, how should we manage with one only? Ought not education to bring out and fortify the differences rather than the similarities? For we have too much likeness as it is, and if an explorer should come back and bring word of other sexes looking through the branches of other trees at other skies, nothing would be of greater service to humanity; and we should have the immense pleasure into the bargain of watching Professor X rush for his measuring-rods to prove himself ''superior.''»
Author: Virginia Woolf
(Writer)
| Keywords:
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