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Jai Ganesh

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Clearly Quotes - I

Clearly Quotes - I

1. Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake? - Leonardo da Vinci

2. The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane. - Nikola Tesla

3. It is the harmony of the diverse parts, their symmetry, their happy balance; in a word it is all that introduces order, all that gives unity, that permits us to see clearly and to comprehend at once both the ensemble and the details. - Henri Poincare

4. A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain? - Khalil Gibran

5. He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career. - George Bernard Shaw

6. Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all. - Pericles

7. It's clearly a budget. It's got a lot of numbers in it. - George W. Bush

8. The dangers of not thinking clearly are much greater now than ever before. It's not that there's something new in our way of thinking - it's that credulous and confused thinking can be much more lethal in ways it was never before. - Carl Sagan.

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It appears to me that if one wants to make progress in mathematics, one should study the masters and not the pupils. - Niels Henrik Abel.

Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge - Stephen William Hawking.