Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge broad deep knowledge is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked mans progress is to feel the great heart-throbs of humanity through the centuries and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life.
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Cut off as I am, it is inevitable that I should sometimes feel like a shadow walking in a shadowy world. When this happens I ask to be taken to New York City. Always I return home weary but I have the comforting certainty that mankind is real and I myself am not a dream.Helen Adams Keller
My darkness had been filled with the light of intelligence, and behold, the day-lit world was stumbling and groping in social blindness.
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Life is either a daring adventure or it is nothing.
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Four things to learn in life To think clearly without hurry or confusion To love everybody sincerely To act in everything with the highest motives To trust God unhesitatingly.
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Now I feel as if I should succeed in doing something in mathematics, although I cannot see why it is so very important.... The knowledge doesn't make life any sweeter or happier, does it.
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Not the senses I have but what I do with them is my kingdom.
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