Scientia is knowledge. It is only in the popular mind that it is equated with facts.

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It is what it is, it is what you make it.
JAMES DURBIN I am Happy and satisfied with what I am. 10000 will take me wrong, 1000 will go against me, 100 will...
NEHA KOTHARI If our mind was an ocean then every now and then we would have the perfect storm happening in it.Gar...
GARY F EVANS...

I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is.
TED TURNER To stand on the
brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli...
ASK AND IT IS GIVEN

Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters.
JEFFREY FRY Life is weird and wonderful like that, is it not.
SONYA.E.WILLIAMS

It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER

Unpredictability means what it means. I don't know how you define it. It is what it is.
MICHAEL KEATON It is what it is, and it ain't nothin' else... Everything is clearly, openly, plainly delive...
DAN FLAVIN

With '10,000,' our aim was to make a film that was entertaining and a roller-coaster ride; i...
STEVEN STRAIT Life is not all about sticking or stopping your thoughts to old memories but LIFE STARTS when you st...
NEHA KOTHARI

I never like it when a celebrity goes on Twitter and says, 'This isn't true!' It is what...
HARRY STYLES I saw that there is no Nature,
That Nature doesn’t exist,
That there are hills, valleys,...
ALBERTO CAEIRO

You know, I don't think my music is important, I don't think it's changing the world, I ...
SUFJAN STEVENS

See the world for what it is.
BEAUTIFUL!
ANTHONY T. HINCKS

There was no Jace Wayland more real than the one he saw in her eyes when she looked at him.
CASSANDRA CLARE

You get to the point where you're like, 'I'm just doing me, and if people don't like...
BEBE REXHA I’m glad I see with my eyes and not the pages I’ve read.
ALBERTO CAEIRO

Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with.
ROBERT STAUGHTON LYND

When I die it will be game over,... but I know one life is short, to be selfish is not the best deci...
DEYTH BANGER I take the good with the bad. I always wanted to be a comic, and part of that, for me, was that I wa...
ERIK GRIFFIN The king may rule the kingdom, but it's the queen who moves the board.
D.M. TIMNEY it's always important to do what you want, Life is too short to live with Regrets.
SHELLI THOMPSON

I'm not an Emontional, but how???
I live with the thought that "Nothing can be returned, it has...
DEYTH BANGER

The river of knowledge has no depth.
CHINONYE J. CHIDOLUE Our life is a series of moments. Let them all go. Moments. All gathering towards this one.
NOW IS GOOD

When you're recording to analog tape, it captures performance and you can't necessarily mani...
DAVE GROHL Knowledge is not vast collection of academic degrees but right empowerment of open mind with an enli...
ANUJ SOMANY I'm one of my sensations.
ALBERTO CAEIRO I speak the truth. Not everyone who says they are ready to hear it really are.
MONIKA ZANDS He had a harder time helping her out though. He was asleep while she was doing stars. Without wings,...
LAURIE FRANKEL If I knew I was going to die tomorrow,
And Spring came the day after tomorrow,
I would die...
ALBERTO CAEIRO The Madden Curse has really taken on a life of its own. People just love talking about it, and it is...
DREW BREES Between what i see in a field and what I see in another field
There passes for a moment the fig...
ALBERTO CAEIRO It’s an already inside outside,
The philosophers say it’s the soul
But it’s not the ...
ALBERTO CAEIRO Do I believe a thing has limits!? Of course! Nothing exists that doesn’t have limits. Existence me...
ÁLVARO DE CAMPOS Things don’t have significance: they only have existence.
Things are the only hidden meaning ...
ALBERTO CAEIRO I'm probably the least harsh on myself, and I try not to scrutinize everything about my body. As...
KOURTNEY KARDASHIAN

Not everybody wants be texting their 15-year-old asking how his math tutor was. They would rather be...
RENEE JAMES A lot of people say there's a fine line between genius and insanity. I don't think there's a fine li...
BILL BAILEY

I love you; I love you and I don’t care that you’re my sister; don’t be with him, don’t want...
CASSANDRA CLARE

The Queen gave him a look: special and secretive and shared between the two of them.You warned he...
CASSANDRA CLARE Knowledge is power.
(Ipsa Scientia Potestas Est)
SIR FRANCIS BACON What comes, when it comes, will be what it is.
ALBERTO CAEIRO Night doesn’t fall for my eyes
But my idea of the night is that it falls for my eyes.
Be...
ALBERTO CAEIRO I’m in no hurry: the sun and the moon aren’t, either.
Nobody goes faster than the legs they...
ALBERTO CAEIRO I never had a problem with my face on screen. I thought it is what it is, and I was turned off by ac...
ROBERT REDFORD It is what it is. I balled out, had some good years, man, had fun and did it with some guys and made...
CALVIN JOHNSON But what you’re calling poetry is what everything is. It’s not even poetry — it’s seeing. Th...
ÁLVARO DE CAMPOS Even so, I’m somebody.
I’m the Discoverer of Nature.
I’m the Argonaut of true sensat...
ALBERTO CAEIRO Godliness with contentment is rare.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Knowledge is power.
FRANCIS BACON Scientia potentia est.

Knowledge is power.
THOMAS HOBBES I was born subject like others to errors and defects,
But never to the error of wanting to unde...
ALBERTO CAEIRO Accept the universe
As the gods gave it to you.
If the gods wanted to give you something e...
ALBERTO CAEIRO I'm living with every step. I can't live with regret. The past is the past. I'm not worr...
RYAN SHECKLER The man stopped talking and was looking at the sunset.
But what does someone who hates and love...
ALBERTO CAEIRO The man held himself still and turned his milk-flooded eyes on her. Fin felt something like vertigo ...
A.S. PETERSON She buys "mixed salad greens" for seven dollars a bag, triple-washed with who knows what. And to get...
RUDOLPH DELSON Today A woman is one who tries to bring a man down. A man is one who has to keep that woman in check...
APURVA GAGLANI It is so fascinating that when after a hard stressful day we calm our mind and release the stress fr...
GARY F EVANS... Boxing's a poor man's sport. We can't afford to play golf or tennis. It is what it is. I...
SUGAR RAY LEONARD Life is a magical game so play it with love.
DEBASISH MRIDHA Ipsa scientia potestas est.

Knowledge itself is power.
FRANCIS BACON The things i know now, i never knew then. I wish i knew.
SOTONYE ANGA The battle is not physical, it is spiritual and your mind is the battleground. Keep your mind pure a...
JEANETTE CORON I consider a dream like I consider a shadow,” answered Caeiro, with his usual divine, unexpected p...
ÁLVARO DE CAMPOS knowledge is protection from ignorance flood
ARYABOD SIHARYVANI To search the sands of a lost desert for truth and justice in this world today you might as well be ...
GARY F EVANS... Your mind is a Microcosm of strength and power. There’s all the magic you need in it. When all els...
CHINONYE J. CHIDOLUE More important, it's because God is our only true source of life.
CRAIG GROESCHEL You yawn to equalize the pressure on your eardrums. This pressure change outside your eardrums unb...
WHY YAWNING IS CONTAGIOUS Be original, be yourself, be you.
ELISE R MAUDE IS Let your actions speak LOVE. No matter what it is.
NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO The possible is just the impossible that we've come to accept,
STEWART STAFFORD Reading furnishes the mind only with material for knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ...
JOHN LOCKE Reading furnishes the mind only with materials for knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read...
JOHN LOCKE Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ...
JOHN LOCKE Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ...
JOHN LOCKE I have Tourettes and Aspergers, but Tourrets and Aspergers don't have me. You know, I'm doin...
JAMES DURBIN For knowledge, too, is itself a power. [Lat., Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est.]
FRANCIS BACON When I was in college, I remember fearing that the dreary grind of adulthood would feature infinitel...
, VLOGBROTHERS, IS COLLEGE WORTH IT?, 08-21-12 It has been my experience that maximizing income is a helluva lot less important than maximizing pas...
, VLOGBROTHERS, IS COLLEGE WORTH IT?, 08-21-12 What is it that makes you so angry, bothers you so deeply, that you're compelled to act?
CRAIG GROESCHEL I'm not sure what the future holds but I do know that I'm going to be positive and not wake ...
NICOLE KIDMAN The artistic element of Manhattan has kind of moved to Brooklyn. Has it changed it? Yeah. Has it rui...
JULIAN CASABLANCAS Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with.
ROBERT LYND It must kill George Bush that John McCain is the most popular and Beloved Republican in America.
PAUL BEGALA Only knowledge that is used sticks in your mind.
DALE CARNEGIE Being present is being connected to All Things.
S. KELLEY HARRELL, M. DIV. It definitely helps us. Prince Charles is not popular at all. There's definitely a problem with him,...
GRAHAM SMITH Artes, scientia, veritas [Arts, knowledge, truth]
MOTTO The world that we live in is a weakness. To continuously live in an environment that weakens you, on...
APURVA GAGLANI It is not time that changes man nor knowledge the only thing that can change someone's mind is love.
PAULO COELHO Love is the only gold.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON At the very moment when people underestimate you is when you can make a breakthrough.
GERMANY KENT 37. It is better to be single and unhappy than unhappily married.
JAMES C. DOBSON Wrong?
So you are saying, I'm wrong okay then... It's not possible every time to be right, one ...
DEYTH BANGER When living is too sweet and swanky, it may be very hard to appreciate the simplest things in life. ...
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CHARLES DARWIN Without speculation there is no good and original observation.
CHARLES DARWIN The presence of a body of well-instructed men, who have not to labor for their daily bread, is impor...
CHARLES DARWIN It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most resp...
CHARLES DARWIN It has been a bitter mortification for me to digest the conclusion that the 'race is for the strong'...
CHARLES DARWIN ...it is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.
CHARLES DARWIN I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find o...
CHARLES LAMB The rigid saint, by whom no mercy's shown To saints whose lives are better than his own.
CHARLES CHURCHILL Do not expect the world to look bright, if you habitually wear gray-brown glasses.
CHARLES ELIOT You will never "find" time for anything. If you want time you must make it.
CHARLES BUXTON Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, wor...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each ot...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE You will never exaggerate when you speak good things of God. It is not possible to do so. Try, dear ...
CHARLES SPURGEON Discord occasions a momentary distress to the ear, which remains unsatisfied, and even uneasy, u...
CHARLES BURNEY She unbent her mind afterwards - over a book.
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Scientia is knowledge. It is only in the popular mind that it is equated with facts.

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