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The knowledge that we gain through adjustment, through trial and error, through experience and over time, in other words, through contact with the earth, is incomparably better than the knowledge gained through reasoning.

The student who says he understands but cannot explain is only deceiving himself.

Knowledge is like a battle to which one must adapt each time in different ways. And thus someday the right solutions will be found for everything.

We are carried away by some kind of passion for knowledge and understanding. It seems to us most beautiful to shine with our knowledge: we are ashamed to make mistakes, to fall into error, to be in ignorance, to be deceived.

- General Guderian wrote the book “Attention Tanks” before the war, so a lot of useful information could be gleaned from there.

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The cure for fear is knowledge.

A person avoids the opportunity to hear the truth about the past and present, although he suspects that it is - and not the same as he is told. But at the same time, he also assumes that if he finds out this truth, he will begin to live restlessly and uncomfortable, scared, or ashamed, or both. This knowledge will lead him to dangerous questions which he will ask himself or the authorities and compare what he has learned with what he has been told and withheld. And then a choice will arise before him: despite the knowledge that he has mastered, live as before, lie to himself, lose respect for himself, consider himself a trembling creature, an unscrupulous person, or decide on some statements or actions that are nothing in the country. will not change, but he and his family will bring a lot of trouble, and even misfortune.

All problems are not from ignorance, but from erroneous confidence in one's own knowledge.

I am already over forty, I learned and relearned a lot, fell under blows and rose again. I am wiser with experience and knowledge filtered through many years, I have become more hardened, more skeptical, more unflappable ... I did not want love and did not believe in it, I did not think that it would come again ... But it came, and all my experience was useless, and knowledge only hurts. And what burns on the fire of feelings better than dry cynicism - is this fuel prepared in the fateful difficult years?

Confidence turns into absolute knowledge only as the facts appear. Up to this point, there is always a chance that evidence will surface that refutes the most verified hypothesis.

And life continued to pose more and more difficult questions to the young surgeon. Recreating now in memory that time, again and again I am ready to say a commendable, grateful word to books! They have always been my first assistants and advisers, I drew strength and confidence from them in the hours of involuntary despair, when solving complicated problems, when no one else could help me. The books that I brought with me, selected with such care in Leningrad, have become an invaluable treasure. They became my advisers and consultants, friends in success and judges in failure...

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- I already know so much that even now put me in the grave.