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  • The knowledge of the realm of death makes it possible for the shaman to move freely back and forth and mediate these journeys for other people. -- Stanislav Grof
  • Our greatest hope comes from the knowledge that the Savior broke the bands of death. His victory came through His excruciating pain, suffering, and agony. He atoned for our sins if we repent. -- James E. Faust
  • A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor. -- Aldous Huxley
  • On the basis of biological, sociological, and historical knowledge, we should recognize that the individual self is subject to death or decay, but the sum total of individual achievement, for better or worse, lives on in the immortality of The Larger. -- Hu Shih
  • I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death. -- Robert Fulghum
  • Opinion is the death of knowledge. -- Jennifer Stone
  • Knowledge is the death of research. -- Walther Nernst
  • Ignorance is death, Knowledge is life. -- Swami Vivekananda
  • Life without knowledge is death in disguise. -- Talib Kweli
  • Our knowledge of life is limited to death -- Erich Maria Remarque
  • Knowledge of death is the beginning of wisdom. -- Mallory Ortberg
  • ...knowledge of material reality is the knowledge of death. -- Richard M. Weaver
  • Knowledge by suffering entereth, And life is perfected by death. -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  • Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge. -- Alfred North Whitehead
  • Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death -- Moliere
  • Knowledge of life brings confidence. Knowledge of death makes you fearless and centered. -- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
  • The only satisfactory thing about death is that our knowledge about it is unsatisfactory. -- Raheel Farooq
  • The last to be overcome is death, and the knowledge of life is the knowledge of death. -- Edgar Cayce
  • All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing. -- Maurice Maeterlinck
  • On examinations: Das Wissen ist der Tad der Forschung. Knowledge is the death of research. Nernst's motto. -- Walther Nernst
  • Knowledge is death in my experience. The more I know about film, the harder it is to create freely. -- Christopher McQuarrie
  • Human knowledge hasn't been complete enough to understand the afterlife if it hasn't been through the valley of death. -- Toba Beta
  • One man's life or death were but a small price to pay for the acquirement of the knowledge which I sought -- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
  • Training was a rite of purification; from it came speed, strength. Racing was a rite of death; from it came knowledge -- John L. Parker Jr.
  • Knowledge forbidden? Suspicious, reasonless. Why should their Lord Envy them that? Can it be a sin to know? Can it be death? -- John Milton
  • Death has no terrors for a sincere servant of Christ who is laboring to bring souls to a knowledge of the truth. -- Ramon Llull
  • Every advance in knowledge and technique is matched by a new kind of death, a new strain. Death adapts, like a viral agent. -- Don DeLillo
  • Through the years our business has been killing;-it was our first calling in life. Our knowledge of lif eis limited to death. -- Erich Maria Remarque
  • In fact, all the additional knowledge gained by an irrationally constituted society may but enlarge and enhance the powers of death and destruction. -- Paul A. Baran
  • It's like marriage. The race there is between total knowledge of each other and death. If death comes first, it's considered a successful marriage. -- Peter S. Beagle
  • I believe the moment of birth Is when we have knowledge of death I believe the season of birth Is the season of sacrifice. -- T. S. Eliot
  • Death alone gives meaning to life, and you will never fully live until you know you must die. And make your peace with that knowledge. -- Alice Borchardt
  • Ignorance is death, knowledge is life. Life is of very little value, if it is a life in the dark, groping through ignorance and misery. -- Swami Vivekananda
  • Doesn't our knowledge of death make life more precious?' What good is a preciousness based on fear and anxiety? It's an anxious quivering thing -- Don DeLillo
  • Only a creature that can think symbolically about life can conceive of its own death. Our knowledge of death is part of our knowledge of life. -- Susanne Katherina Langer
  • If a wicked man seems to have peace at death, it is not from the knowledge of his happiness, but from the ignorance of his danger. -- Thomas Watson
  • When you erode the fear of death with the knowledge that you already died [in Christ], you will find yourself moving toward a simple, bold obedience. -- Edward T. Welch
  • The death of a thousand worshipers is easier to bear than the death of a scholar who has knowledge of what Allah has permitted and forbidden. -- Umar
  • Life and death appear more certainly ours than whatsoever else; and yet hardly can that be called ours, which comes without our knowledge, and goes without it. -- Walter Savage Landor
  • Man cannot live without some knowledge of the purpose of life. If he can find no purpose in life he creates one in the inevitability of death. -- Chester Himes
  • The compensation for a death sentence is the knowledge of the exact hour when one is to die. A great luxury, but one that is well earned. -- Vladimir Nabokov
  • One is seldom unchanged by the death of those one loves. It gives me a deeper knowledge of them, and so of oneself in regard to them." -- Elizabeth Goudge
  • One is seldom unchanged by the death of those one loves. It gives me a deeper knowledge of them, and so of oneself in regard to them. -- Elizabeth Goudge
  • But death does not stand at the end of life, it is all through it. It is the fear of losing, the knowledge of losing that makes love tender. -- Benedict Freedman
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