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Is To Attempt Seeing Truth Without Knowing Falsehood.
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. . is to attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt
to see the Light without knowing Darkness. It cannot be.
-- Frank Herbert, Dune
Related:
A wish is a desire without an attempt.
I believe it is an established maxim in morals that he who makes an assertion without knowing whether it is true or false is guilty of falsehood
and the accidental truth of the assertion does not justify or excuse him. -- Abraham Lincol...
Hackers do it without you even knowing it.
It's like signing a 356-page contract without knowing what's in it. -- On getting married
Youth is a period of missed opportunities without the glory of knowing what was missed.
Life is knowing how far to go without crossing the line.
When politics and religion are intermingled, a people is suffused with a sense of invulnerability, and gathering speed in their forward charge, they fail to see the cliff ahead of them.
-- _Dune_, by Frank Herbe...
The difference between sentiment and sentimentality is easy to see.
When you avoid killing somebody's pet on the glazeway, that's sentiment....