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  Quotations about Research If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research , would it? ~ Albert Einstein Enough research will tend to support your conclusions. ~ Arthur Bloch If politics is the art of the possible, research is surely the art of the soluble. Both are immensely practical-minded affairs. ~ Sir Peter Medawar After all, the ultimate goal of all research is not objectivity, but truth. ~ Helene Deutsch To write it, it took three months; to conceive it -- three minutes; to collect the data in it -- all my life. ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose. ~ Zora Neale Hurston Research is usually a policeman stopping a novel from progressing. ~ Brian Moore Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought. ~ Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Lost in a gloom of uninspired research . ~ William Wordsworth Research is the process of going up alleys to...

Quotations about Magic Imagination is the true magic carpet. ~ Norman Vincent Peale It is human nature to want to believe in the wizardry of the magician --but also to turn against him and to scorn him the moment that he commits the slightest error that reveals his trickery. Those in the audience are embarrassed to have been so easily astonished, and they blame the performer for their gullibility. ~ Dean Koontz Speeches are not magic and there is no great speech without great policy. ~ Peggy Noonan The magic of drama is infinitely more powerful than the magic of trickery. It is as available to the conjurer as it is to the actor. The only difference is that actors take it for granted, whereas few conjurers are even aware that it exists.~ Henning Nelms Real magic can never be made by offering someone else's liver. You must tear out your own, and not expect to get it back. ~ Peter S. Beagle Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic . ~ Arthur...

Sayings about Knowing He, who does not know one thing knows another. ~ Kenyan Proverb He, who has not tasted bitter things, knows not what sweet is. ~ German Proverb You know , you teach. You do not know, you learn. ~ Lao Proverb It is the wife who knows her husband. ~ Ghanaian Proverb Anyone who says they have only one life to live must not know how to read a book. ~ Saying He, who knows not when he has enough, is poor. ~ Japanese Proverb He, who knows little quickly tells it. ~ Italian Proverb Teach thy tongue to say, "I do not know ". ~ Hebrew Proverb He, who knows nothing, doubts nothing. ~ Brazilian Proverb Even though you know a thousand things, ask the man who knows one. ~ Turkish Proverb What I do not know will not keep me warm. ~ Austrian Proverb You don't have to know much to read, but you do to cook. ~ Turkish Proverb A fool who knows he is a fool has a little intelligence, but a fool that thinks he is intelligent is reall...

Quotations about Knowledge A society that fears knowledge is a society that fears itself. ~ Bernard Beckett Knowledge and human power are synonymous. ~ Francis Bacon The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet. ~ Philip Dormer Stanhope If you have knowledge , let others light their candles in it. ~ Charles Caleb Colton The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance. ~ Confucius Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace. ~ George Santayana Knowledge of men is the prime secret of business success. ~ Darius Ogden Mills Knowledge is twofold and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of what is false. ~ Charles Caleb Colton Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace. ~ George Santayana The function of knowledge is to transcend earthly experience, not to wallow in it....

Sayings about Knowledge God sells knowledge for labor — honor for risk. ~ Saudi Arabian Proverb Doubt is the key to knowledge . ~ Arabian Proverb Knowledge is like a garden: if it is not cultivated, it cannot be harvested. ~ Guinean Proverb Knowledge without wisdom is a load of books on the back of an ass. ~ Japanese Proverb Knowledge without wisdom is a load of books on the back of an ass. ~ Japanese Proverb The wise man who does not put his knowledg e into practice is like a bee that gives no honey. ~ Iranian Proverb Knowledge acquired as a child is more lasting than an engraving on stone. ~ Arabian Proverb The knowledge of sin is the beginning of salvation. ~ Latin Proverb Ask someone else for advice but keep your knowledge to yourself. ~ Hebrew Proverb There are three "too much" and three "too little" that can bring a fool down: too much spending and too little money; too much talking and too little knowledge ; and too much boasting...

Sayings about Discovery The pleasure of finding something is worth more than what you find. ~ Iranian Proverb Many who have gold in the house are looking for copper outside. ~ Russian Proverb Do not waste your time looking for soft ground to drive your spade in. ~ Malagasy Proverb No matter how high a bird can fly, it still has to look for food on the ground. ~ Danish Proverb Discover a well before you are thirsty. ~ Chinese Proverb A hidden fire is discovered by its smoke. ~ Spanish Proverb An hour of play discovers more than a year of conversation does. ~ Portuguese Proverb Look for a thing until you find it and you'll not lose your labor. ~ Chinese Proverb God is always where we don't look for him. ~ Russian Proverb The key to success isn't much good until one discovers the right lock to put it in. ~ Chinese Proverb Quotations about Discovery Often, in great discovery the most important thing is that a certain question is found. ~ Max Werthei...

Quotations about Curiosity A man should go on living -- if only to satisfy his curiosity . ~ Yiddish Proverb The future belongs to the curious . The ones who are not afraid to try it, explore it, poke at it, question it and turn it inside out. ~ Saying Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect. ~ Samuel Johnson There is nothing left of him but curiosity and a pair of eyes. ~ Kurt Vonnegut Curiosity is thought on its entering edge. ~ Charles Henry Parkhurst Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will. ~ James Stephens The cure for boredom is curiosity . There is no cure for curiosity. ~ Dorothy Parker Curiosity is idle only to those who fail to realize that it may be a very rare and indispensable thing. ~ James Harvey Robinson The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity . ~ Edmund Burke Curiosity in children Nature has provided to remove the ignorance they were born wit...

Quotations about Wonder Some people wonder all their lives if they've made a difference. The Marines don't have that problem. ~ Ronald Reagan No wonder is greater than any other wonder, and if once explained ceases to be a wonder. ~ James Henry Leigh Hun Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder , to the enduring fact of mystery. ~ Henry Miller He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder. ~ M. C. Escher The world will never starve for want of wonders ; but only for want of wonder. ~ Gilbert Keith Chesterton From wonder into wonder existence opens. ~ Lao Tzu That is ever the difference between the wise and the unwise: the latter wonders at what is unusual; the wise man wonders at the usual. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not. ~ George Bernard Shaw Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore. There is al...

Quotations about Mystery I am a great admirer of mystery and magic. Look at this life - all mystery and magic. ~ Harry Houdini Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is what's known as infinity. ~ Jean Cocteau Mystery is another name for our ignorance; if we were omniscient, all would be perfectly plain. ~ Tryon Edwards One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility. ~ Albert Einstein The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery . ~ Francis Bacon Until we accept the fact that life itself is founded in mystery , we shall learn nothing. ~ Henry Miller We have to stop and be humble enough to understand that there is something called mystery . ~ Paulo Coelho Mystery and innocence are not akin. ~ Hosea Ballou A religion without its mysteries is a temple without a God. ~ Robert Hall The mysteries of Nature and of humanity are not lessened, but increased, by the discover...

Sayings about Questions One who is afraid of asking questions is ashamed of learning. ~ Danish Proverb Indiscreet questions must be answered with a lie. ~ Spanish Proverb Ask no questions and hear no lies. ~ Traditional Proverb Hasty questions require slow answers. ~ Dutch Proverb An educated man is one who has finally discovered that there are some questions to which nobody has the answer. ~ Saying Every question has an answer. ~ Yiddish Proverb One idiot can ask more questions than ten wise men can answer. ~ Mongolian Proverb Don't ask questions about fairy tales. ~ Yiddish Proverb Conversation is like making love; the man is the question , the woman the answer, and the union of both will bear fruit. ~ Arabian Proverb The wise man asks questions of himself; the fool questions others. ~ Chinese Proverb He, who asks questions , cannot avoid the answers. ~ Cameroonian Proverb To a quick question give a slow answer. ~ Italian Proverb A fool can a...

Sayings about Doubt The more you listen the more you give yourself room for doubt . ~ Mongolian Proverb Jealousy is nourished by doubt . ~ French Proverb Feed your faith and doubt will starve to death. ~ Saying When in charge ponder. When in trouble delegate. When in doubt mumble. ~ Saying Doubt cannot override a certainty. ~ The Talmud To wish to know is to wish to doubt . ~ French Proverb If there is still doubt do not accuse. ~ Spanish Proverb The believer is happy; the doubter is wise. ~ Hungarian Proverb To believe with certainty, we must begin by doubting . ~ Polish Proverb Great doubts deep wisdom. Small doubts little wisdom. ~ Chinese Proverb The person who trusts is happy; the person who doubts is wise. ~ Hungarian Proverb Quotation about Doubt To doubt is worse than to have lost; And to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall on us. ~ Philip Massinger Doubt cannot override a certainty. ~ The Talmud Doubt , of whatever k...

Sayings about Certainty To believe in certainty , we must begin by doubting. ~ Polish Proverb It is precisely the uncertainty of this world that makes life worth living. ~ Japanese Proverb Only death is certain . ~ Maltese Proverb There is nothing certain except the unforeseen. ~ Saying There's no insurance against death and poverty. ~ Yiddish Proverb Mistrust is the mother of certainty . ~ French Proverb Where the law is uncertain there is no law. ~ Traditional Proverb You would do better to be someone's victim rather than someone's certainty . ~ Sri Lankan Proverb We lose the certain things, while we seek the uncertain ones. ~ Latin Proverb Quit not certainty for hope. ~ Traditional Proverb If you have a choice between certainty and hope, choose certainty every time. ~ Saying Unlaid eggs are uncertain chickens. ~ Dutch Proverb Who can say with certainty that one will live to see the morrow? ~ Tibetan Proverb There are three uncertainti...