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We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness. -- Tom Waits
Happiness exists on earth, and it is won through prudent exercise of reason, knowledge of the harmony of the universe, and constant practice of generosity. -- Jose Marti
There is nothing which can better deserve your patronage, than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness. -- George Washington
I might have some character traits that some might see as innocence or naive. That's because I discovered peace and happiness in my soul. And with this knowledge, I also see the beauty of human life. -- Tobey Maguire
Well, there are two kinds of happiness, grounded and ungrounded. Ungrounded happiness is cheesy and not based on reality. Grounded happiness is informed happiness based on the knowledge that the world sometimes sucks, but even then you have to believe in yourself. -- Andy Grammer
It is in his knowledge that man has found his greatness and his happiness, the high superiority which he holds over the other animals who inhabit the earth with him, and consequently no ignorance is probably without loss to him, no error without evil. -- James Smithson
We all agree that its fit to be as Happy as we can, and we need no Instructor to teach us this Knowledge, 'tis born with us, and is inseparable from our Being, but we very much need to be Inform'd what is the true Way to Happiness. -- Mary Astell
If you asked somebody, 'what do you wish for in life?' they wouldn't say 'happiness.' I would have answered 'excitement, knowledge,' God knows - I mean, many, many different things, but certainly not 'happiness'. It seemed like a foreign concept to wish for something that specific and that singular. -- Connie Nielsen
Christianity is sustained by the knowledge that the object of man's life on earth is his development as an eternal being. Therefore, none of his expressions of life can be an end in itself, but must serve a higher purpose than the earthly life and happiness of the individual - or even than that of the race. -- Ellen Key
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness. -- George Santayana
Happiness is what matters, feeling alive-not art or knowledge or money. -- Marty Rubin
Knowledge is power...knowled ge is safety...knowle dge is happiness. -- Thomas Jefferson
The real key to health and happiness and success is self knowledge -- Laozi
It is in knowledge that man has found his greatness and his happiness. -- James Smithson
A true knowledge of Jesus is our greatest need and our greatest happiness. -- John Eldredge
Happiness is not to be found in knowledge, but in the acquisition of knowledge -- Edgar Allan Poe
In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
It is one of my sources of happiness never to desire a knowledge of other people's business. -- Dolley Madison
A stubborn mind conduces as little to wisdom or even to knowledge, as a stubborn temper to happiness -- Robert Southey
Happiness comes from self-knowledge. Self-knowledge means that you have understood your mind. Your mind is the whole universe. -- Frederick Lenz
Self-knowledge is only from moment to moment, and therefore there is a creative happiness from moment to moment. -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
Knowledge is not happiness, and science But an exchange of ignorance for that Which is another kind of ignorance. -- Lord Byron
The idea of Disneyland is a simple one. It will be a place for people to find happiness and knowledge. -- Walt Disney
Reading is pleasure and happiness to be alive or sadness to be alive and above all it's knowledge and questions. -- Roberto Bolano
It is beautiful to acquire knowledge, but it is misleading to expect it to bring us peace, love and happiness. -- Ken Keyes Jr.
Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it. -- Simone de Beauvoir
Is it not in the struggle to obtain knowledge that happiness exists? I am very ignorant, consequently the conditions of happiness are mine. -- Fridtjof Nansen
A lump rises in our throat at the sight of beauty from an implicit knowledge that the happiness it hints at is the exception. -- Alain de Botton
Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge - broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. -- Helen Keller
The fact that knowledge endlessly recedes as the investigator is about to grasp it is what constitutes at the same time his torment and happiness. -- Claude Bernard
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
He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts. -- Samuel Johnson
I am a Teacher. I am the keeper of mysteries. You seek knowledge and power, Truth, Light, and happiness. I am happy to aid you in your search. -- Frederick Lenz
I am a Teacher. I am the keeper of mysteries. You seek knowledge and power, Truth, Light, and happiness. I am happy to aid you in your search. -- Frederick Lenz
I think self-knowledge is a key to happiness.We can build happy lives only on the foundation of our own natures, our own values, and our own interests. -- Gretchen Rubin
I believe in the 12 Jewels and try to provide my childrem with them. That is Knowledge, Wisdom, Understanding, Freedom, Justice, Equality, Food, Clothing, Shelter, Love, Peace and Happiness. -- RZA
Really Love itself is the extract of the whole Knowledge, it is written that in last synthesis the Wisdom can be reduced into Love, and the Love into Happiness. -- Samael Aun Weor
Enlightenment requires discipline, balance, knowledge, power, happiness and a sense of responsibility and sacrifice, being able to do things with your life that you would not have done otherwise. -- Frederick Lenz
No university on Earth gives master's degrees of living, of happiness. How strange! We seem to be missing the essential, the all-encompassing knowledge for which universities were originally created! -- Robert Muller

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