Counterintuitive actions prove we can trust real knowledge and do the opposite of what we feel makes sense.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
We must trust to nothing but facts: these are presented to us by nature and cannot deceive. We ought, in every instance, to submit our reasoning to the test of experiment, and never to search for truth but by the natural road of experiment and observation.
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
Counterintuitive action makes a fellow feel smart.
When we consistently suppress and distrust our intuitive knowingness, looking instead for authority, validation, and approval from others, we give our personal power away.
Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.
The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.
We can't have full knowledge all at once. We must start by believing; then afterwards we may be led on to master the evidence for ourselves.
The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.
If knowledge and foresight are too penetrating and deep, unify them with ease and sincerity.
When we value correct principles, we have truth - a knowledge of things as they are.
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