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Followers of the occult believe in only what they already know, and in those things that confirm what they have already learned.


Umberto Eco

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ROBERT M. PIRSIG Only God, Jonathan and the baby know what happened. I think if they could find something, he'd (Fost...
KATIE ADAMS Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have.
SOURCE UNKNOWN Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have.
ANONYMOUS Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have.
Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have.
UNKNOWN They want the things Louisiana already has. What they don't want is income taxes and sales taxes as ...
ELLIOTT STONECIPHER We talked about what they already know ? that they spend a lot of time watching TV and that what the...
DAVID MOODY You have to lead people gently toward what they already know is right.
PHILIP CROSBY You have to lead people gently toward what they already know is right.
PHIL CROSBY The point of essays is the point of writing anything. It's not to tell people what they already ...
MEGHAN DAUM The solutions all are simple -- after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you kno...
ROBERT M. PIRSIG The solutions all are simple / after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know...
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- Criminal Minds
DEYTH BANGER We hear and apprehend only what we already half know.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU My Message is already out, what has left is to go and to do your part of the work.
DEYTH BANGER I don't expect those sorts of things. The change in the forest service policy is really a minor modi...
DANIEL JIRON In my opinion, people have already made a firm decision on what they want and they want the premier ...
AMMAR SIAMWALLA The mayor and council did not retract what they already have done.
TED STRICKLAND Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understand...
RICHARD BACH Eyes can only capture objects that already seen in mind.
And mind can only see things that alre...
TOBA BETA Let them repeat what they have already told the prime minister in earlier meetings but they must sho...
OMAR ABDULLAH Change is not overcoming inertia as much as it is redirecting, guiding, tweaking what already is and...
MAX MCKEOWN I do not believe in censorship, but I believe we already have censorship in what is called marketing...
SAM SHEPPARD Yes, we saw the tape of the Chargers-Colts game. I don't know if we learned anything from the tape t...
DESHEA TOWNSEND I believe what we may see is a minor pullback due to a lack of fresh catalysts now that the Fed has ...
ANDRE BAKHOS They've already proved so many things, but they always feel like they have to prove something. That'...
CARLOS ARROYO People appreciates what other has, but sometimes they don't realize how to appreciate what they alre...
BRADLEY B. DALINA What we suggest is that they look at ones already in place to see if they are necessary.
DON BRUNELL I know what they'd like, they'd like a blank they could fill in. A person already filled in disturbs...
PATRICIA HIGHSMITH People typically only buy wine in grocery stores when they already know they like it. The type they ...
DARBY WILLIAMS It's a lot of nothing. They already have the authority to do what they say they want to do.
BILL POWERS But length of days with an evil heart is only length of misery and already she begins to know it. Al...
C.S. LEWIS The only measure of what you believe is what you do. If you want to know what people believe, don’...
BOHDI SANDERS Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious. The Unconscious by definition is what you ar...
SAUL BELLOW Only those who have learned a lot are in a position to admit how little they know.
L. CARTE Only those who have learned a lot are in a position to admit how little they know.
L. CARTE You're not wasting time teaching kids things they already know.
GEORGE ZIMMER They know what they want, but aren't sure how to find it.
JAMES C. DOBSON Take The Walk is not about individuals becoming great in order to impact the world, it is abo...
HANSON Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN What they have in common is that if the reviewer did not already possess them, he would long for the...
CHRISTOPHER LEHMANN-HAUPT Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your unders...
RICHARD BACH They already know all about brands... but what 16- and 17-year-olds won't necessarily have is ex...
PHILIP GREEN Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want t...
STEVE JOBS So often, we had the tendency of saying, they're the problem. No, they're not the problem. Our heart...
LOWELL NELSON They want to know everything about you that they haven't already asked in the application. What made...
DIANE RODRIGUEZ The stories are not autobiographical, but they're personal in that way. I seem to know only the ...
ALICE MUNRO I already do what I love doing, so it's more progressing toward getting more involved in the things ...
SHANNON MILLER We have lived for too long in a world, and tragically in a Church, where the wills and affections of...
N.T. WRIGHT The people of God cannot be changed until the outcasts are restored to its body.
UMBERTO ECO TAKE ACTION Things may come to those who wait,but only the things left by those who hustle. ABRAHAM ...
JACK CANFIELD Bargaining with God is pointless. He already has a thousand followers that will do what you bargaine...
SHANNON L. ALDER Only five out of a hundred live according to what they think and believe in their minds. And four ou...
WILLIAM MITCHELL That's the good thing about it. Nothing counts except what's goin' on around you.
H.L. DAVIS What counts, in the long run, is not what you read; it is what you sift through your own mind; it is...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT IN LIFE, YOU SHOULD COUNT ONLY WHAT IS ALREADY IN YOUR BASKET.
JOB LAZARUS OKELLO. I think I have already signed some scrap of paper for every man, woman, and child in the United Stat...
VIDA BLUE In the same way many Christians--whole generations of them, sometimes entire denominations--have in ...
N.T. WRIGHT Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious. The Unconscious by definition is what you ar...
SAUL BELLOW I don't know if you can duplicate the record that we had last year, but I think we're already a bett...
MIKE THIBAULT Masters" are those who have simply started to see the difference in what they have learned and are y...
ALAN B JONES I believe we already have the tools that they need, ... If they need some other capability, then we ...
FRED BAKER Fortunately, they didn't find anything that contradicted what I had already written.
BEN BOVA This confirms what those of us who do this every day already know, that these dedicated resources do...
DR. MAURIZIO MIGLIETTA We should be wary of politicians who profess to follow history while only noticing those signposts o...
DOUGLAS HURD They told us what we already knew and charged us $10,000.
EARL SHIFFLETT But what else can that hypothetical actor-filmmaker do? How does he find meaningful human connect...
CATHERINE LACEY Bringing up these issues is only going to add heat to an already fragile situation in Iraq and they ...
LABEED ABBAWI You often love someone not for what they are, but for what you are when you are with them.
JEFFREY FRY Search for variety in between the rhythm of what we already know, and you will find wonder.
MATT MALDRE What I point out to people is that it's silly to be afraid that you're not going to get what you wan...
MARCIA MARTIN So many desire to know the complicated will of God for their lives, yet they do not do the simple th...
RIAAN VAN WYK When students come to school and they don't have the supplies they need, they start off at a disadva...
LORI COOPER I feel the presence of a higher power. I believe that what you give is what you get. It's univer...
ALICIA KEYS If the customer isn't already buying high-quality broadband that doesn't have congestion, what are t...
JEFFREY CITRON If the customer isn't already buying high-quality broadband that doesn't have congestion, what are t...
JEFFREY CITRON At the end of the polygraph, he says, 'You don't need to tell me the results. I already know what th...
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SHANNON L. ALDER Millions of people acknowledge today that they do not know the meaning of life.
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UMBERTO ECO Scratch the heresy and you will find the leper. Every battle against heresy wants only this: to keep...
UMBERTO ECO For centuries, as pope and emperor tore each other apart in their quarrels over power, the excluded ...
UMBERTO ECO The faith a movement proclaims doesn't count: what counts is the hope it offers. All heresies are th...
UMBERTO ECO I'd lost all faith in everything, except for the certainty that there's always someone behind our ba...
UMBERTO ECO And what would we be, we sinful creatures, without fear, perhaps the most foresighted, the most lovi...
UMBERTO ECO All the stories I would like to write persecute me. When I am in my chamber, it seems as if they are...
UMBERTO ECO But why do some people support [the heretics]?"
"Because it serves their purposes, which conce...
UMBERTO ECO In the Middle Ages, cathedrals and convents burned like tinder; imagining a medieval story without a...
UMBERTO ECO There, Master Niketas,’ Baudolino said, ‘when I was not prey to the temptations of this world, I...
UMBERTO ECO But it has often happened that I have found the most seductive depictions of sin in the pages of tho...
UMBERTO ECO لا أعرف شيئا ليس هناك شيئ أعلمه .و إنما بعض الأشياء يحسه...
UMBERTO ECO ...a book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements, clumsy...
UMBERTO ECO We stopped to browse in the cases, and now that William - with his new glasses on his nose - could l...
UMBERTO ECO This, in fact, is the power of the imagination, which, combining the memory of gold with that of the...
UMBERTO ECO How beautiful was the spectacle of nature not yet touched by
the often perverse wisdom of man!
UMBERTO ECO Yesterday's rose endures in its name, we hold empty names.
UMBERTO ECO A narrator should not supply interpretations of his work; otherwise he would have not written a nove...
UMBERTO ECO كان رجال العهود الغابرة وسيمي الطلعة طويلي القامة و �...
UMBERTO ECO True learning must not be content with ideas, which are, in fact, signs, but must discover things in...
UMBERTO ECO Monsters exist because they are part of the divine plan, and in the horrible features of those same ...
UMBERTO ECO We live for books. A sweet mission in this world dominated by disorder and decay.
UMBERTO ECO Love is wiser than wisdom.
UMBERTO ECO Until then I had thought each book spoke of the things, human or divine, that lie outside books. Now...
UMBERTO ECO Not that the incredulous person doesn't believe in anything. It's just that he doesn't believe in ev...
UMBERTO ECO the first quality of an honest man is contempt for religion, which would have us afraid of the most ...
UMBERTO ECO American coffee can be a pale solution served at a temperature of 100
degrees centigrade in pla...
UMBERTO ECO The fact that for tens of thousands of years humanity has used warfare as a solution for states of d...
UMBERTO ECO Priešas turi būti atpažįstamas ir baisus, jis turi būti tavo namuose arba prie durų slenksčio...
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