Knowledge Quotes
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“To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.”
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“A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.”
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“To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.”
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“Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.”
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“All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.”
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“To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.”
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“Without knowledge action is useless and knowledge without action is futile.”
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“To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.”
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“We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge.”
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“Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.”
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“Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility.”
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“Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.”
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“Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.”
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“If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.”
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“Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.”
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“Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.”
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“No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.”
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“Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.”
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“We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.”
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“Those who have knowledge, don't predict. Those who predict, don't have knowledge.”
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“Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?”
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“Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.”
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“The true method of knowledge is experiment.”
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“The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.”
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“The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance.”
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“We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.”
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“The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people.”
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“Knowledge is like money: to be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in quantity and, hopefully, in value.”
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“Knowledge is love and light and vision.”
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“Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.”
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“Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.”
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“Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.”
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“We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.”
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“They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.”
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“If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.”
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“Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.”
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“He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.”
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“Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.”
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“The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.”
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“I'm hungry for knowledge. The whole thing is to learn every day, to get brighter and brighter. That's what this world is about. You look at someone like Gandhi, and he glowed. Martin Luther King glowed. Muhammad Ali glows. I think that's from being bright all the time, and trying to be brighter.”
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“It is one of my sources of happiness never to desire a knowledge of other people's business.”
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“There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge… observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination.”
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“All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.”
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“I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.”
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“I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about.”
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“The apple cannot be stuck back on the Tree of Knowledge; once we begin to see, we are doomed and challenged to seek the strength to see more, not less.”
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“The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes.”
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“Cherish that which is within you, and shut off that which is without; for much knowledge is a curse.”
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“The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.”
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“It is harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge.”
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“Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.”
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“The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.”
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“Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.”
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“The knowledge I have now is not the knowledge I had then.”
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“Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.”
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“Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.”
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“The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge.”
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“Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.”
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“Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.”
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“A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.”
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“The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading.”
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“Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.”
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“Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.”
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“Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.”
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“One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises.”
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“Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with.”
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“I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance.”
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“This life that has been given to us as a gift, as such a precious gift. To really try to understand it, really try to recognize it, is the greatest meditation. Through the media of this Knowledge we can tap into our inner sources that are so beautiful.”
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“A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.”
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“If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind?”
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“Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.”
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“There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.”
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“Never stop learning; knowledge doubles every fourteen months.”
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“Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.”
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“The ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained.”
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“The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.”
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“All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.”
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“Knowledge is soon changed, then lost in the mist, an echo half-heard.”
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“Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.”
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“I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions.”
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“'Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.' - e. e. cummings”
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“If you first fortify yourself with the true knowledge of the Universal Self, and then live in the midst of wealth and worldliness, surely they will in no way affect you.”
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“I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.”
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“Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.”
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“The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity.”
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“Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?”
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“We don't know all the answers. If we knew all the answers we'd be bored, wouldn't we? We keep looking, searching, trying to get more knowledge.”
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“Doubt grows with knowledge.”
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“Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.”
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“The natural desire of good men is knowledge.”
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“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.”
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“Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.”
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“Information is not knowledge.”
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“Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.”
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“I'll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth.”
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“When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.”
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“We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us, and the more we gain, the more is our desire; the more we see, the more we are capable of seeing.”
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“It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.”
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“Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.”
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“Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.”
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“Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.”
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“If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.”
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“Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.”
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“Knowledge of the past and of the places of the earth is the ornament and food of the mind of man.”
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“I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.”
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“Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.”
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“The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.”
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“Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give lustre, and many more people see than weigh.”
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“Ignorance is never better than knowledge.”
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“Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.”
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“The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts.”
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“The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.”
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“As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.”
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“Knowledge is the life of the mind.”
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“It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.”
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“Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.”
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“Looking up and out, how can we not respect this ever-vigilant cognizance that distinguishes us: the capability to envision, to dream, and to invent? the ability to ponder ourselves? and be aware of our existence on the outer arm of a spiral galaxy in an immeasurable ocean of stars? Cognizance is our crest.”
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“All men by nature desire knowledge.”
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“There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.”
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“Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.”
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“Knowledge is true opinion.”
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“We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.”
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“No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.”
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“Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.”
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“And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.”
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“When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.”
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“That knowledge which is popular is not scientific.”
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“Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance.”
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“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.”
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“Some people drink from the fountain of knowledge, others just gargle.”
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“The only source of knowledge is experience.”
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“For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.”
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“Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.”
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“It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.”
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“We cannot stop natural disasters but we can arm ourselves with knowledge: so many lives wouldn't have to be lost if there was enough disaster preparedness.”
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“Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.”
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“Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place - that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realise the great life.”
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“The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.”
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“Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause nor invention without necessity.”
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“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”
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“Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad.”
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“Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.”
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“Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.”
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“A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.”
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“Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom.”
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“It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill.”
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“Research is creating new knowledge.”
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“All we have is the knowledge passed on to us by our elders, experiences we inculcate and hardly negate. But to bridge the generation gap, one needs to adapt to the new while retaining the goodness of the old.”
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“The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.”
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“Knowledge is power, and it can help you overcome any fear of the unexpected. When you learn, you gain more awareness through the process, and you know what pitfalls to look for as you get ready to transition to the next level.”
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“Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.”
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“Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.”
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“The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.”
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“If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.”
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“It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.”
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“The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.”
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“The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.”
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“I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.”
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“To attain any assured knowledge about the soul is one of the most difficult things in the world.”
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“Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.”
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“Love is a really scary thing, and you never know what's going to happen. It's one of the most beautiful things in life, but it's one of the most terrifying. It's worth the fear because you have more knowledge, experience, you learn from people, and you have memories.”
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“The goal of education is not to increase the amount of knowledge but to create the possibilities for a child to invent and discover, to create men who are capable of doing new things.”
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“Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.”
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“Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.”
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“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.”
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“The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.”
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“Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.”
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“Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.”
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“Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.”
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“Education is not just about going to school and getting a degree. It's about widening your knowledge and absorbing the truth about life.”
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“Knowledge is power.”
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“The good life consists in deriving happiness by using your signature strengths every day in the main realms of living. The meaningful life adds one more component: using these same strengths to forward knowledge, power or goodness.”
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“Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; an argument an exchange of ignorance.”
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“Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.”
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“Inner city education must change. Our responsibility is not merely to provide access to knowledge; we must produce educated people.”
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“The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.”
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“Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.”
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“In complete darkness we are all the same, it is only our knowledge and wisdom that separates us, don't let your eyes deceive you.”
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“A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.”
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“The end of all knowledge should be service to others.”
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“My advice to women in general: Even if you're doing a nine-to-five job, treat yourself like a boss. Not arrogant, but be sure of what you want - and don't allow people to run anything for you without your knowledge.”
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“An empowered organisation is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organisational success.”
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“Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.”
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“I always was very interested in intellect and the massive world of knowledge out there, but in terms of being a kid who wanted to be treated as an equal, school is not the place.”
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“Life is a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter.”
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“Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.”
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“What is research but a blind date with knowledge?”
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“We want our legacy to stand upon the youth. We want to give knowledge to the younger generation and be a part of changing the game.”
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“All knowledge is precious whether or not it serves the slightest human use.”
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“If you know you are on the right track, if you have this inner knowledge, then nobody can turn you off… no matter what they say.”
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“New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.”
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“I believe that through knowledge and discipline, financial peace is possible for all of us.”
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“Knowledge of God's Word is a bulwark against deception, temptation, accusation, even persecution.”
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“There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words.”
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“You are the master of your own ship, pal. There are lots of people who fall into troubled waters and don't have the guts or the knowledge or the ability to make it to shore. They have nobody to blame but themselves.”
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“Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.”
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“We can't have full knowledge all at once. We must start by believing; then afterwards we may be led on to master the evidence for ourselves.”
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“The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.”
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“Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.”
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“Your competition is not other people but the time you kill, the ill will you create, the knowledge you neglect to learn, the connections you fail to build, the health you sacrifice along the path, your inability to generate ideas, the people around you who don't support and love your efforts, and whatever god you curse for your bad luck.”
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“The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism.”
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“Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.”
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“When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge.”
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“Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.”
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“Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.”
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“For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics.”
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“There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.”
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“The most valuable wealth of a man is his knowledge, which cannot be destroyed; all other riches that he has gained are not considered to be wealth at all.”
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“Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.”
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“There's no such thing is aging, but maturing and knowledge. It's beautiful, I call that beauty.”
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“The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.”
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“A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.”
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“There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul.”
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“Hackers are breaking the systems for profit. Before, it was about intellectual curiosity and pursuit of knowledge and thrill, and now hacking is big business.”
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“I don't know what's the matter with people: they don't learn by understanding; they learn by some other way - by rote, or something. Their knowledge is so fragile!”
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“Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.”
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“Critical thinking is not something you do once with an issue and then drop it. It requires that we update our knowledge as new information comes in. Time spent evaluating claims is not just time well spent. It should be considered part of an implicit bargain we've all made.”
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“The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.”
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“I've been a cook all my life, but I am still learning to be a good chef. I'm always learning new techniques and improving beyond my own knowledge because there is always something new to learn and new horizons to discover.”
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“Knowledge is not skill. Knowledge plus ten thousand times is skill.”
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“There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions as the knowledge that there is a meaning in one's life.”
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“But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.”
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“Wisdom is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.”
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“Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; but knowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, unlimited in space and indefinite in duration.”
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“The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.”
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“We are approaching a new age of synthesis. Knowledge cannot be merely a degree or a skill… it demands a broader vision, capabilities in critical thinking and logical deduction without which we cannot have constructive progress.”
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“Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.”
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“True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.”
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“Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.”
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“Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.”
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“Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.”
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“Knowledge is not a guarantee of good political behavior, but ignorance is a virtual guarantee of bad behavior.”
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“The mark of higher education isn't the knowledge you accumulate in your head. It's the skills you gain about how to learn.”
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“The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.”
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“Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.”
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“The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.”
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“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.”
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“Studying whether there's life on Mars or studying how the universe began, there's something magical about pushing back the frontiers of knowledge. That's something that is almost part of being human, and I'm certain that will continue.”
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“At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes abridged.”
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“Devotion complete culminates in knowledge supreme.”
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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.”
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“I believe that when an elder dies, a library is burned: vast sums of wisdom and knowledge are lost. Throughout the world libraries are ablaze with scant attention.”
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“The uncertainty principle refers to the degree of indeterminateness in the possible present knowledge of the simultaneous values of various quantities with which the quantum theory deals; it does not restrict, for example, the exactness of a position measurement alone or a velocity measurement alone.”
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“Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true knowledge.”
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“Love, work, and knowledge are the wellsprings of our lives, they should also govern it.”
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“Courage is… the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.”
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“Art itself is knowledge of the spiritual world. Art is information from higher forces, by those who are talented. I'm not jiving.”
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“As educators, we are only as effective as what we know. If we have no working knowledge of what students studied in previous years, how can we build on their learning? If we have no insight into the curriculum in later grades, how can we prepare learners for future classes?”
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“We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.”
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“It is the knowledge that all men have weaknesses and that many have vices that makes government necessary.”
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“I do not want medical men to discuss whether or not my work is valuable, because I know what it will do. I want them to tell me how best this new knowledge of rapidly restoring paralysed people to health and strength can be applied where it is needed.”
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“Being part of social movements like Black Lives Matter or organizations like NAACP, or any group representing a cause, gives you more resources, knowledge, and power. They can help you use your voice.”
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“The library, with its Daedalian labyrinth, mysterious hush, and faintly ominous aroma of knowledge, has been replaced by the computer's cheap glow, pesky chirp, and data spillage.”
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“What religion a man holds, to what race he belongs, these things are not important; the really important thing is this knowledge: the knowledge of God's plan for men. For God has a plan, and that plan is evolution.”
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“Allah says in the Qur'an not to despise one another. So the criterion in Islam is not color or social status. It's who is most righteous. If I go to a mosque - and I'm a basketball player with money and prestige - if I go to a mosque and see an imam, I feel inferior. He's better than me. It's about knowledge.”
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“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.”
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“Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.”
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“It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.”
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“Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.”
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“I would encourage you: be informed - knowledge is power.”
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“God had brought me to my knees and made me acknowledge my own nothingness, and out of that knowledge I had been reborn. I was no longer the centre of my life and therefore I could see God in everything.”
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“The more knowledge you've got, the more understanding you have, the better you are able to implement and pass it on to others.”
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“Our knowledge and all of our ideas are mutually connected; the more complicated they are, the more numerous must be the roads that lead to them and depart from them.”
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“The government that governs from afar absolutely requires that the truth and the facts reach its knowledge by every possible channel, so that it may weigh and estimate them better, and this need increases when a country like the Philippines is concerned, where the inhabitants speak and complain in a language unknown to the authorities.”
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“The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.”
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“We did it Disneyland, in the knowledge that most of the people I talked to thought it would be a financial disaster - closed and forgotten within the first year.”
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“The business of biomedical research is mostly about failure. Few projects we commission will ultimately result in success. But every study we do contributes to the body of knowledge that brings science and society closer to a solution.”
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“When people rely on surface appearances and false racial stereotypes, rather than in-depth knowledge of others at the level of the heart, mind and spirit, their ability to assess and understand people accurately is compromised.”
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“Collecting facts is important. Knowledge is important. But if you don't have an imagination to use the knowledge, civilization is nowhere.”
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“Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.”
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“The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.”
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“Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too.”
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“I listened more than I studied… therefore little by little my knowledge and ability were developed.”
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“Over time, naturally, you lose your innocence from gaining knowledge. You can't be innocent forever, but there's something in innocence you need to regain to be creative.”
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“Poetic knowledge is born in the great silence of scientific knowledge.”
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“It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.”
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“Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.”
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“It is like a voyage of discovery into unknown lands, seeking not for new territory but for new knowledge. It should appeal to those with a good sense of adventure.”
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“Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.”
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“Someone who has experienced trauma also has gifts to offer all of us - in their depth, their knowledge of our universal vulnerability, and their experience of the power of compassion.”
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“There's an awful lot of future out there, and what you got to do, is you go to out and grab it, wrestle it to the ground, accept the challenges, and then decide. You've got the skills. You've got the knowledge. You've got the love, and you're capable of moving forward and making a great life yourself.”
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“All knowledge of cultural reality, as may be seen, is always knowledge from particular points of view.”
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“I don't have any particular recipe. It is the reason why doing research is challenging as well as attractive. It is like being lost in a jungle and trying to use all the knowledge that you can gather to come up with some new tricks, and with some luck, you might find a way out.”
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“Universities exist to transmit knowledge and understanding of ideas and values to students not to provide entertainment for spectators or employment for athletes.”
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“To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.”
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“There's no question that as science, knowledge and technology advance, that we will attempt to do more significant things. And there's no question that we will always have to temper those things with ethics.”
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“Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.”
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“Is it right to probe so deeply into Nature's secrets? The question must here be raised whether it will benefit mankind, or whether the knowledge will be harmful.”
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“I am afraid of aeroplanes. I've been able to avoid flying for some time, but I suppose, if I had to, I would. Perhaps it's a case of a little knowledge being a dangerous thing. At one time, I had a pilot's licence and 160 hours of solo time on single-engine light aircraft. Unfortunately, all that seemed to do was make me mistrust large aeroplanes.”
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“I have recently been able to see the new world - the quiet, the tranquility and the freedom it will bring with it. This is very comforting knowledge for me because I already know that what I envision eventually becomes a reality.”
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“I think that probably the most important thing about our education was that it taught us to question even those things we thought we knew. To say you've got to inquire, you've got to be testing your knowledge all the time in order to be more effective in what you're doing.”
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“If knowledge and foresight are too penetrating and deep, unify them with ease and sincerity.”
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“The SAT is not perfect. We all know smart, knowledgeable people who do badly on standardized tests. But neither is it useless. SAT scores do measure both specific knowledge and valuable thinking skills.”
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“I felt deep within me that the highest point a man can attain is not Knowledge or Virtue or Goodness or Victory but something even greater, more heroic and more despairing: Sacred Awe!”
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“Whoever claims that economic competition represents 'survival of the fittest' in the sense of the law of the jungle, provides the clearest possible evidence of his lack of knowledge of economics.”
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“Do not share the knowledge with which you have been blessed with everyone in general, as you do with some people in particular; and know that there are some men in whom Allah, may He be glorified, has placed hidden secrets, which they are forbidden to reveal.”
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“For some students, especially in the sciences, the knowledge gained in college may be directly relevant to graduate study. For almost all students, a liberal arts education works in subtle ways to create a web of knowledge that will illumine problems and enlighten judgment on innumerable occasions in later life.”
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“I've a great family, two children to take care of. Then, of course, I do commentary for TV. I do speak about various women's issues around the world - like LGBT, motivational speeches. I have a lot on my plate right now. But eventually, yes, I would like to pass on the knowledge and something that I would like to do.”
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“With the observable fact that scientific knowledge makes our lives better when applied with concern for human welfare and environmental protection, there is no question that science and technology can produce abundance so that no one has to go without.”
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“My music is the spiritual expression of what I am - my faith, my knowledge, my being.”
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“The outlines of the needed psychology of becoming can be discovered by looking within ourselves; for it is knowledge of our own uniqueness that supplies the first, and probably the best, hints for acquiring orderly knowledge of others.”
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“I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge.”
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“In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.”
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“A writer of fiction is really… a congenital liar who invents from his own knowledge or that of other men.”
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“Inability to make decisions is one of the principal reasons executives fail. Deficiency in decision-making ranks much higher than lack of specific knowledge or technical know-how as an indicator of leadership failure.”
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“The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and take nobody's word about them.”
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“With all the knowledge and skill acquired in thousands of flights in the last ten years, I would hardly think today of making my first flight on a strange machine in a twenty-seven mile wind, even if I knew that the machine had already been flown and was safe.”
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“It is only requisite, for me to say to you, that the President places great reliance upon your skill, judgment and intimate knowledge.”
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“You move forward through knowledge. You prevail through knowledge. I love the word 'prevail.' Prevail!”
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“It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.”
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“In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory.”
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“My practicality consists in this, in the knowledge that if you beat your head against the wall it is your head which breaks and not the wall - that is my strength, my only strength.”
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“Widespread public access to knowledge, like public education, is one of the pillars of our democracy, a guarantee that we can maintain a well-informed citizenry.”
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“Anything that gives us new knowledge gives us an opportunity to be more rational.”
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“Probability is expectation founded upon partial knowledge. A perfect acquaintance with all the circumstances affecting the occurrence of an event would change expectation into certainty, and leave nether room nor demand for a theory of probabilities.”
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“All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.”
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“When our systematic knowledge of human expressive behavior is more advanced, it will be possible to study the literary and historical documents of the past and to determine the expressed and implied views of personality that determined the behavior of our ancestors.”
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“Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.”
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“Lack of knowledge… that is the problem.”
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“Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.”
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“The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.”
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“A high-quality public education can build much-needed skills and knowledge. It can help children reach their God-given potential. It can stabilize communities and democracies. It can strengthen economies. It can combat the kind of fear and despair that evolves into hatred.”
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“All men are born with a nose and five fingers, but no one is born with a knowledge of God.”
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“People usually compare the computer to the head of the human being. I would say that hardware is the bone of the head, the skull. The semiconductor is the brain within the head. The software is the wisdom. And data is the knowledge.”
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“It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.”
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“Self-management and self-control are the keys to advanced knowledge, and both are difficult to learn without a sense of your own cultural identity.”
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“As a coach, you're like a teacher. You don't give the players their talent. God gives them talent, but you can give them knowledge, and you can give them information.”
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“The greatest enemy of progress is the illusion of knowledge.”
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“Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.”
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“I have thought about it a great deal, and the more I think, the more certain I am that obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the child.”
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“As knowledge increases, wonder deepens.”
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“If men possessed wisdom, which stands in the same relation to the form of man as the sight to the eye, they would not cause any injury to themselves or to others; for the knowledge of truth removes hatred and quarrels, and prevents mutual injuries.”
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“To know how to dissimulate is the knowledge of kings.”
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“Fine art is knowledge made visible.”
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“I live in a country where music has very little success, though, exclusive of those who have forsaken us, we have still admirable professors and, more particularly, composers of great solidity, knowledge, and taste.”
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“O king! I was but a man like others, asleep upon my couch, when lo, the breezes of the All-Glorious were wafted over me, and taught me the knowledge of all that hath been. This thing is not from me, but from One Who is Almighty and All-Knowing.”
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“There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.”
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“In the workplace, we're taught to worry about what happens if we don't have full, complete knowledge of every detail. But if you create a culture and an environment that rewards people for taking risks, even if they don't succeed, you can start changing behavior.”
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“The best theology is rather a divine life than a divine knowledge.”
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“The most powerful love songs always turn on the discrepancy between the act of declaring love and the knowledge that the ostensible addressee is no longer there, was never there, and could never be there.”
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“Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.”
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“Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.”
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“Hackers rarely have full knowledge of the technology stack of a target.”
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“Cultures have long heard wisdom in non-human voices: Apollo, god of music, medicine and knowledge, came to Delphi in the form of a dolphin. But dolphins, which fill the oceans with blipping and chirping, and whales, which mew and caw in ultramarine jazz - a true rhapsody in blue - are hunted to the edge of silence.”
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“If four things are followed - having a great aim, acquiring knowledge, hard work, and perseverance - then anything can be achieved.”
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“In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.”
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“Liberated from the error of pagan tradition through the benevolence and loving kindness of the good God with the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by the operation of the Holy Spirit, I was reared from the very beginning by Christian parents. From them I learned even in babyhood the Holy Scriptures which led me to a knowledge of the truth.”
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“I am a thief of knowledge, and in a survival way, I had to solve all the problems around me.”
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“The pursuit of natural knowledge, the investigation of the world - mental and material - in which we live, is not a dull and spiritless affair: rather is it a voyage of adventure of the human mind, a holiday for reckless and imaginative souls.”
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“What I count as real prosperity… is the growth in a knowledge of God, and in a testimony, and in the power to live the gospel and to inspire our families to do the same. That is prosperity of the truest kind.”
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“Knowledge is never too dear.”
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“In the life of our organism, we are continually dealing with a development of force followed by a state of equilibrium. Of course, the human being has no conscious knowledge of what is really going on within him, but what takes place is so infinitely wise that the cleverness of the human ego is nothing by comparison.”
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“We have to continue to learn. We have to be open. And we have to be ready to release our knowledge in order to come to a higher understanding of reality.”
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“To act on the belief that we possess the knowledge and the power which enable us to shape the processes of society entirely to our liking, knowledge which in fact we do not possess, is likely to make us do much harm.”
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“Knowledge is a weapon. I intend to be formidably armed.”
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“I seriously feel like the best days are ahead, and I like the idea of getting to do everything I did before but with more knowledge, experience, and street smarts. There's a certain love, appreciation, and gratitude that you have at 40 that you don't have when you're younger, and it makes every accomplishment feel so much better.”
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“It's a horrible idea that God, this paragon of wisdom and knowledge, power, couldn't think of a better way to forgive us our sins than to come down to Earth in his alter ego as his son and have himself hideously tortured and executed so that he could forgive himself.”
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“Fullness of knowledge always means some understanding of the depths of our ignorance; and that is always conducive to humility and reverence.”
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“Henceforth the leaves of the tree of knowledge were for women, and for the healing of the nations.”
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“All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.”
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“The knowledge from an enlightened person breaks on the hard rocks of ignorance.”
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“Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and how much happier is that man who believes his native town to be the world than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow.”
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“I'm a strict, strict agnostic. It's very different from a casual, 'I don't know.' It's that you cannot present as knowledge something that is not knowledge. You can present it as faith, you can present it as belief, but you can't present it as fact.”
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“I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss.”
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“I came to accept during my freshman year that many of the gaps in my knowledge and understanding were simply limits of class and cultural background, not lack of aptitude or application as I'd feared.”
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“Western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but rather, it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent.”
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“I like the idea of isolation. I like the reality of it. You realize what you are… not that the knowledge is inevitably rewarding.”
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“Discovery is for forward lookers. So, no one is born with great knowledge.”
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“Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.”
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“Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge.”
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“What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.”
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“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
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“His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even… knowledge, was foolproof.”
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“The health of the people is of supreme importance. All measures looking to their protection against the spread of contagious diseases and to the increase of our sanitary knowledge for such purposes deserve attention of Congress.”
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“Most people in AI, particularly the younger ones, now believe that if you want a system that has a lot of knowledge in, like an amount of knowledge that would take millions of bits to quantify, the only way to get a good system with all that knowledge in it is to make it learn it. You are not going to be able to put it in by hand.”
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“I believe that we must maintain pride in the knowledge that the actions we take, based on our own decisions and choices as individuals, link directly to the magnificent challenge of transforming human history.”
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“Children are our future and every child deserves to have an environment where they can learn and flourish and gain knowledge.”
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“Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them.”
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“Knowledge is going to make you stronger. Knowledge is going to let you control your life. Knowledge is going to give you the wisdom to teach their children. Knowledge is the thing that makes you smile in the face of disaster.”
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“Knowledge once gained casts a light beyond its own immediate boundaries.”
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“The first step in a person's salvation is knowledge of their sin.”
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“Reason is an action of the mind; knowledge is a possession of the mind; but faith is an attitude of the person. It means you are prepared to stake yourself on something being so.”
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“Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.”
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“The main force pushing toward reduction in inequality has always been the diffusion of knowledge and the diffusion of education.”
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“In this coming year, I will seek knowledge from those wiser than me and try to teach those who wish to learn from me. I love being alive, and I will be the best man I possibly can.”
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“To help, to continually help and share, that is the sum of all knowledge; that is the meaning of art.”
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“The search for knowledge is a long and difficult task.”
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“Since knowledge is but sorrow's spy, It is not safe to know.”
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“Your workforce is your most valuable asset. The knowledge and skills they have represent the fuel that drives the engine of business - and you can leverage that knowledge.”
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“Scientific knowledge is in perpetual evolution; it finds itself changed from one day to the next.”
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“The research I have been doing - studying how foodstuffs yield energy in living cells - does not lead to the kind of knowledge that can be expected to give immediate practical benefits to mankind. If I have chosen this field of study, it was because I believed in its importance in spite of its theoretical character.”
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“When we go to the Bible we should keep in mind that the basic principles of the Bible are taught by God, but written down by human beings deprived of modern day knowledge. So there is some fallibility in the writings of the Bible. But the basic principles are applicable to my life and I don't find any conflict among them.”
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“Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person.”
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“I've always thought that when they say ignorance is bliss, the converse to that is that knowledge is hell. The more you know, the bleaker things can get.”
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“It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.”
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“There is a universal, intelligent, life force that exists within everyone and everything. It resides within each one of us as a deep wisdom, an inner knowing. We can access this wonderful source of knowledge and wisdom through our intuition, an inner sense that tells us what feels right and true for us at any given moment.”
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“The perfect knowledge of events cannot be acquired without divine inspiration, since all prophetic inspiration receives its prime motivating force from God the creator, then from good fortune and nature.”
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“I'm very lucky; I have a lot of knowledge. My favorite band is The Beatles, so a lot of inspiration for my music comes from them, too.”
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“If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it except at a considerable cost.”
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“If we don't empower ourselves with knowledge, then we're gonna be led down a garden path.”
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“Imparting knowledge is only lighting other men's candles at our lamp without depriving ourselves of any flame.”
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“Thanks to postmodernism, we tend to see all facts as meaningless trivia, no one more vital than any other. Yet this disregard for facts qua facts is intellectually crippling. Facts are the raw material of thought, and the knowledge of significant facts makes sophisticated thought possible.”
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“Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.”
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“The key to coaching is love. It's not knowledge; it's not discipline. If you love 'em, you can discipline them. If you love 'em, you can yell at them and laugh about it later.”
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“I'm on a mission. And I know the older I get, I may lose a step or two, but it's all up in the medulla oblongata. I've got a lot up there. I've got a lot of knowledge… in this medulla oblongata.”
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“The death of my husband, coming immediately after the general knowledge of the discoveries with which his name is associated, was felt by the public, and especially by the scientific circles, to be a national misfortune.”
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“How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room. There is no such thing as observation of the inner world, as there is of the outer world.”
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“The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.”
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“People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding.”
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“The knowledge of languages was very useful. I have a university degree in foreign languages and literature.”
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“If we would have new knowledge, we must get a whole world of new questions.”
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“We must always remember with gratitude and admiration the first sailors who steered their vessels through storms and mists, and increased our knowledge of the lands of ice in the South.”
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“All knowledge or form conception is evoked through the medium of the eye, either in response to disturbances directly received on the retina or to their fainter secondary effects and reverberations. Other sense organs can only call forth feelings which have no reality of existence and of which no conception can be formed.”
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“I think the future of this planet depends on humans, not technology, and we already have the knowledge - we're kind of at the endgame with knowledge. But we're nowhere near the endgame when it comes to our perception. We still have one foot in the dark ages.”
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“Before speaking without knowledge, saying lies, you have to present evidence.”
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“The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.”
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“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.”
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“Design is a way of life, a point of view. It involves the whole complex of visual communications: talent, creative ability, manual skill, and technical knowledge. Aesthetics and economics, technology and psychology are intrinsically related to the process.”
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“Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values.”
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“I would go from one city to the next, inspired by the monks in the Middle Ages, who would carry knowledge from one monastery to the next monastery.”
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“You can do anything you think you can. This knowledge is literally the gift of the gods, for through it you can solve every human problem. It should make of you an incurable optimist. It is the open door.”
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“The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.”
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“There is no philosophy which is not founded upon knowledge of the phenomena, but to get any profit from this knowledge it is absolutely necessary to be a mathematician.”
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“We do not need to be shoemakers to know if our shoes fit, and just as little have we any need to be professionals to acquire knowledge of matters of universal interest.”
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“Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.”
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“All true happiness, pure joy, sweet bounties, and untroubled pleasure lie in knowledge of God and love of God; they cannot exist without them.”
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“The greatest sin is judgment without knowledge.”
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“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.”
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“Knowledge is not just the preserve of the educated elite. Just because someone has not had a formal education, that does not mean he does not have wisdom and common sense.”
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“There's a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.”
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“We must develop knowledge optimization initiatives to leverage our key learnings.”
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“It is good to be well connected with English language, literature and history, but the knowledge of our culture and roots is equally important.”
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“In England only uneducated people show off their knowledge; nobody quotes Latin or Greek authors in the course of conversation, unless he has never read them.”
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“We really want our kids, and our youth, to understand that one, knowledge is power, and two, you don't have to be shy about being educated, and being ahead of the learning curve.”
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“When time and space and change converge, we find place. We arrive in Place when we resolve things. Place is peace of mind and understanding. Place is knowledge of self. Place is resolution.”
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“America is a knowledge-based society, where information counts as much as material resources. Therefore those with the power to define what qualifies as knowledge - to determine what are the accepted facts - wield the greatest social and political power.”
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“The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.”
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“It is my belief that no matter how advanced man may become in science, technology, systems, and knowledge, he can never improve on the foundational precepts of marriage as the bedrock of social development.”
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“There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.”
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“The courage of a soldier is heightened by his knowledge of his profession.”
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“It's fairly common knowledge that a startup can't execute on two products simultaneously.”
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“A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.”
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“The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, skepticism is the highest of duties; blind faith the one unpardonable sin.”
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“Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.”
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“Hunting for malware requires highly specialized knowledge of the intricacies of the domain name system - the protocol that allows us to type email addresses and website names to initiate communication. DNS enables our words to set in motion a chain of connections between servers, which in turn delivers the results we desire.”
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“Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing.”
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“There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.”
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“Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.”
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“The more knowledge you have, the greater will be your fear of Allah.”
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“Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge.”
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“Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.”
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“Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.”
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“Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.”
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“The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love.”
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“Surgical Anatomy is, to the student of medicine and surgery, the most essential branch of anatomical science, having reference more especially to an accurate knowledge of the more important regions, and consisting in the application of anatomy generally to the practice of surgery.”
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“Without a knowledge of mythology much of the elegant literature of our own language cannot be understood and appreciated.”
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“Information is not knowledge, and knowledge is not wisdom. Reading - even browsing - an old book can yield sustenance denied by a database search. Patience is a virtue, gluttony a sin.”
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“Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college.”
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“Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge.”
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“I think we often live at a surface level, and that ends up with us in a lot of difficulty because we just function on assumptions and secondhand knowledge.”
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“You cannot blame the mismanagement of the economy or the fact that we have not invested adequately in education in order to give our people the knowledge, the skills and the technology that they need in order to be able to use the resources that Africa has to gain wealth.”
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“We are shallow because we are 'mayabang,' ego driven, and do not have the humility to understand that we are only human, much too human to mistake knowledge for wisdom.”
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“Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.”
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“The substitute for knowledge is money.”
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“It's disappointing to see how football, the world's No. 1 sport, is not No. 1 when it comes to development. It seems to me that a wealth of practical football knowledge is being squandered.”
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“The Holy Ghost bears witness to us of the truth and impresses upon our souls the reality of God the Father and His Son, Jesus Christ, so surely that no earthly power or authority can separate us from that knowledge.”
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“This celebration here tells me that this work is not hopeless. I thank you for this teaching with all my heart and lift my glass to human solidarity, to the ultimate victory of knowledge, peace, good-will and understanding.”
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“If you can't read, the only thing you can do is enjoy the pictures, not the whole story. Reading is the key to knowledge. Knowledge is the key to understanding. So read on, young man! Read on, young lady!”
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“All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.”
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“Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.”
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“There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride, they have yielded to the perennial temptation.”
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“The foreigners come out here always to teach, whereas they had much better learn, for, in everything but wits and knowledge, the Arab is generally the better man of the two.”
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“The age we live in is a busy age; in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection.”
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“Concentration of the mind is in a way common to both Knowledge and Yoga. Yoga aims at union of the individual with the universal, the Reality. This Reality cannot be new. It must exist even now, and it does exist.”
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“G is Grace, the Flaming Star is the Torch of Reason. Those who possess this knowledge are indeed Illuminati.”
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“One of the things we often miss in succession planning is that it should be gradual and thoughtful, with lots of sharing of information and knowledge and perspective, so that it's almost a non-event when it happens.”
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“It is with children that we have the best chance of studying the development of logical knowledge, mathematical knowledge, physical knowledge, and so forth.”
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“You have to assume that everything you do is public knowledge. Everything. Because now everyone is a reporter. Everyone is a photographer.”
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“Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing.”
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“Another hero was Tom Swift, in the books. What he stood for, the freedom, the scientific knowledge and being and engineer gave him the ability to invent solutions to problems. He's always been a hero to me. I buy old Tom Swift books now and read them to my own children.”
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“I want to learn about a different religion. I grew up Catholic, but my grandfather was Jewish. Knowledge about other religions can help you understand your own better. I think it's kind of hypocritical to believe one thing and don't know about any others.”
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“Grace is not part of consciousness; it is the amount of light in our souls, not knowledge nor reason.”
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“My knowledge of video games ends with Nintendo 'Mario Bros.'”
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“Knowledge is the prime need of the hour.”
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“Science is organized knowledge.”
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“An accurate knowledge of the past of a country is necessary for everyone who would understand its present, and who desires to judge of its future.”
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“Music is at once the product of feeling and knowledge, for it requires from its disciples, composers and performers alike, not only talent and enthusiasm, but also that knowledge and perception which are the result of protracted study and reflection.”
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“God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: 'This is my country.'”
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“The big value of the founder running the company is really two things: the knowledge and the commitment.”
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“The most wonderful study of mankind is man. Relieving human suffering and diffusing universal knowledge is humanitarian.”
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“I am a strong believer that knowledge is power, and when it comes to personal finance in particular, there simply aren't enough financial tools and education available to teens.”
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“The accumulation of cultural capital - the acquisition of knowledge - is the key to social mobility.”
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“There is this tremendous body of knowledge in the world of academia where extraordinary numbers of incredibly thoughtful people have taken the time to examine on a really profound level the way we live our lives and who we are and where we've been. That brilliant learning sometimes gets trapped in academia and never sees the light of day.”
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“The will to do springs from the knowledge that we can do.”
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“I had a full college experience. I kind of learned how to be a good student at Bard. I had never really cared about academics, but in college I learned the power of - I don't want to say the power of knowledge, but the power of curiosity.”
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“Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.”
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“Faulkner is a writer who has had much to do with my soul, but Hemingway is the one who had the most to do with my craft - not simply for his books, but for his astounding knowledge of the aspect of craftsmanship in the science of writing.”
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“Elon Musk wins you over with his elegant mastery of engineering, be it for the rocket or the car. But what blew my socks off was when our conversation veered way off topic. We started musing about whether it was possible we all lived in the matrix, and Musk still had deep knowledge.”
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“Humans believe so many lies because we aren't aware. We ignore the truth or we just don't see the truth. When we are educated, we accumulate a lot of knowledge, and all that knowledge is just like a wall of fog that doesn't allow us to perceive the truth, what really is.”
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“Always, through my whole life, I've had a thirst for knowledge.”
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“The great end of life is not knowledge but action.”
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“In the present state of our knowledge, it would be useless to attempt to speculate on the remote cause of the electrical energy… its relation to chemical affinity is, however, sufficiently evident. May it not be identical with it, and an essential property of matter?”
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“The knowledge that we have brother scouts working in the same uniform, to the same ends, in the same way, in all corners of the Empire, cannot but make scouts proud of their brotherhood, and cannot fail to bring them into closer sympathy.”
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“I had a traditional interview based on a phone call from an agent. He says there's a show and they would like to see you and its called Dallas. With very little knowledge I go over to this meeting at Warner Brothers.”
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“Pleasures take to themselves wings and fly away; true knowledge remains forever.”
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“Testimony is personal knowledge, based upon the witness of the Holy Ghost, that certain facts of eternal significance are true.”
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“Even if you're improvising, the fact that beforehand you know certain things will work helps you make those improvisations successful. It really helps to have a certain amount of knowledge about musical structure.”
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“But because many endeavor to get knowledge rather than to live well, they are often deceived and reap little or no benefit from their labor.”
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“More students have a better knowledge of pop culture than of the Constitution.”
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“Knowledge born of the finest discrimination takes us to the farthest shore. It is intuitive, omniscient, and beyond all divisions of time and space.”
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“I would call myself a Gnostic. Which means, I'm interested in pursuing and understanding the spiritual nature of things. A Gnostic is somebody seeking knowledge of that aspect of reality.”
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“After the knowledge of, and obedience to, the will of God, the next aim must be to know something of His attributes of wisdom, power, and goodness as evidenced by His handiwork.”
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“Give, give, give - what is the point of having experience, knowledge or talent if I don't give it away? Of having stories if I don't tell them to others? Of having wealth if I don't share it? I don't intend to be cremated with any of it! It is in giving that I connect with others, with the world and with the divine.”
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“From a child, I had an inordinate desire for knowledge and especially music, painting, flowers, and the sciences, Algebra being one of my favorite studies.”
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“I used to do a lot of ouija boards, and I asked if there was life after death. Some spirit replied, 'He who seeketh knowledge seeketh sorrow!'”
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“Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day.”
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“Open-source encyclopedias such as Wikipedia and search engines such as Google and Bing, which people can tap into anytime and anywhere via computers and smart phones, put a world of knowledge at our fingertips at a lower cost than ever before.”
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“The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn when teachers themselves are taught to learn.”
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“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.”
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“Religious speech is extreme, emotional, and motivational. It is anti-literal, relying on metaphor, allusion, and other rhetorical devices, and it assumes knowledge within a community of believers.”
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“Of our relation to all creation we can never know anything whatsoever. All is immensity and chaos. But, since all this knowledge of our limitations cannot possibly be of any value to us, it is better to ignore it in our daily conduct of life.”
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“For 500 years after Gutenberg, the dominant form of information was the printed page: knowledge was primarily delivered in a fixed format, one that encouraged readers to believe in stable and settled truths.”
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“The world isn't one way or another. Things can be changed very, very rapidly by someone with sufficient confidence, sufficient knowledge and sufficient authority.”
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“I entreat masters to live a good life and faithfully to instruct their scholars, especially that they may love God and learn to give themselves to knowledge, in order to promote His honour, the welfare of the state, and their own salvation, but not for the sake of avarice or the praise of man.”
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“I am a straight, non-alcoholic, non-partying guy who speaks straight. I have no knowledge of literature. This is my language of communication, and what I see, what I observe, I reflect.”
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“I thank God that I'm a product of my parents. That they infected me with their intelligence and energy for life, with their thirst for knowledge and their love. I'm grateful that I know where I come from.”
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“What separates developing countries from developed countries is as much a gap in knowledge as a gap in resources.”
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“The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river; and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future.”
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“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.”
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“A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he is being photographed, and what he does with this knowledge is as much a part of the photograph as what he's wearing or how he looks.”
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“You always get things that teach you and steps to grow, but there is a confidence that is gained and a deep understanding of what it means to be supported by your knowledge - not by some team that is there to create confidence; it is there within you. That takes time. That takes teachers. That takes taking risks.”
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“Although simulators are great for building step-by-step knowledge of a procedure, the worst thing that can happen in a sim is that you get a bad grade on your performance.”
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“Like all science, psychology is knowledge; and like science again, it is knowledge of a definite thing, the mind.”
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“Chess is not only knowledge and logic.”
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“Even though I'm a hype man myself, I like the practicality of it all. People who understand how to turn a profit. At the end of the day, this is still business so I'm looking for real practical knowledge of how to actually make money, not necessarily raise it.”
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“I believe patriotism comes from the heart. Patriotism is voluntary. It is a feeling of loyalty and allegiance that is the result of knowledge and belief.”
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“True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.”
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“I have discovered in 20 years of moving around a ballpark, that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price of the seats.”
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“I would like to have the superpower of being able to touch a book and then gain all the knowledge out of that book without spending hours and days reading it.”
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“The prevailing - and foolish - attitude is that a good manager can be a good manager anywhere, with no special knowledge of the production process he's managing. A man with a financial background may know nothing about manufacturing shoes or cars, but he's put in charge anyway.”
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“Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since.”
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“Most North Americans know that human-caused global warming is real, even if political leaders don't always reflect or act on that knowledge.”
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“The medicines of today are based upon thousands of years of knowledge accumulated from folklore, serendipity and scientific discovery. The new medicines of tomorrow will be based on the discoveries that are being made now, arising from basic research in laboratories around the world.”
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“The consequences of a lack of new knowledge is decades of stagnation: the next generation will be poorer than this one.”
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“The first responsibility of the Muslim is as teacher. That is his job, to teach. His first school, his first classroom is within the household. His first student is himself. He masters himself and then he begins to convey the knowledge that he has acquired to the family. The people who are closest to him.”
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“I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.”
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“It's very strange that most people don't care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations.”
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“This means that no single logic is strong enough to support the total construction of human knowledge.”
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“Not only does neoliberalism undermine both civic education and public values and confuse education with training, it also treats knowledge as a product, promoting a neoliberal logic that views schools as malls, students as consumers, and faculty as entrepreneurs.”
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“A commitment to human rights cannot be fostered simply through the transmission of knowledge. Action and experience play a crucial role in the learning process.”
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“My husband Farhan Azmi is a restaurateur and owns three restaurants in Mumbai. After we got married, we started planning a cafe, Chai Cofi, and got busy in executing it. It is not easy to open a restaurant. I always wanted to get into the business of restaurants and was fortunate enough that Farhan's knowledge taught me a lot of things.”
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“Knowing is the most profound kind of love, giving someone the gift of knowledge about yourself.”
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“I went to Albuquerque, I went to Denver, to Arizona, to California, a lot of different places to learn. I'm always trying to get new knowledge.”
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“Tanpinar presciently feared that to embrace the western conception of progress was to be mentally enslaved by a whole new epistemology, one that compartmentalised knowledge and concealed an instrumental view of human beings as no more than things to be manipulated.”
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“For my own part, I would rather excel in knowledge of the highest secrets of philosophy than in arms.”
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“I had a non-existent knowledge of Queen Victoria's early years. Like everyone else, I thought of her as an old lady dressed in black. My mom had told me about her, though, that she had a very loving relationship with Albert, that they had lots of kids, and that he died young.”
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“The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.”
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“If you want to be truly successful invest in yourself to get the knowledge you need to find your unique factor. When you find it and focus on it and persevere your success will blossom.”
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“Generally, social networking sites can be hugely promising and beneficial in opening new friendships and vistas and knowledge of the world, but they are also fraught with peril, when young people are reckless or headless.”
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“Children need to have both time to think and the motivation to think for themselves, to develop an expert reading brain, before the digital mode dominates their reading. The immediacy and volume of information should not be confused with true knowledge.”
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“What I hope is that those with the knowledge of the humanities break into the closed society where code gets written: invade it.”
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“All the world's combined knowledge is at our fingertips. But the same technology that makes this possible is robbing us of deeper insight.”
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“Indeed, the most important product of knowledge is ignorance.”
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“Sometimes I feel like I must be hinting at this deep well of knowledge when, really, I just skim off the surface.”
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“This knowledge that you might have to really reorganize and redefine yourself and build new skills is really important.”
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“Scientific research involves going beyond the well-trodden and well-tested ideas and theories that form the core of scientific knowledge. During the time scientists are working things out, some results will be right, and others will be wrong. Over time, the right results will emerge.”
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“The secret to being successful from a trading perspective is to have an indefatigable and an undying and unquenchable thirst for information and knowledge.”
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“Where knowledge ends, religion begins.”
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“The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.”
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“Radical constructivism, thus, is radical because it breaks with convention and develops a theory of knowledge in which knowledge does not reflect an 'objective' ontological reality.”
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“The more knowledge you get, the more questions you ask. The smarter you get, the more you realize that everything can be possible.”
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“'For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge' took a year to record; that's why the playing on it might sound somewhat labored. 'Balance,' on the other hand, was written and recorded in only four months, so the whole process was quicker and more immediate.”
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“The future of Norway isn't about competing on being the cheapest but the most innovative. We have an expensive welfare state, and the only answer to continue that way is to become more competitive, especially on knowledge.”
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“I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.”
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“We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about.”
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“Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.”
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“The history of thought, of knowledge, of philosophy, of literature seems to be seeking, and discovering, more and more discontinuities, whereas history itself appears to be abandoning the irruption of events in favor of stable structures.”
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“While the finish given to our picture of the world by the theory of relativity has already been absorbed into the general scientific consciousness, this has scarcely occurred to the same extent with those aspects of the general problem of knowledge which have been elucidated by the quantum theory.”
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“Technology is changing so fast that knowledge about specifics can quickly become obsolete. That's why so much of what technicians learn is on the job.”
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“Intelligence, knowledge or experience are important and might get you a job, but strong communication skills are what will get you promoted.”
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“I think people should be able to have at their behest, like, four hours of music, entertainment, visual knowledge, different pathways. That's what I'm trying to do with modern technology, not just another song and another song.”
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“Great teachers emanate out of knowledge, passion and compassion.”
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“All science requires mathematics. The knowledge of mathematical things is almost innate in us. This is the easiest of sciences, a fact which is obvious in that no one's brain rejects it; for laymen and people who are utterly illiterate know how to count and reckon.”
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“I'm a very passionate believer in the unity of knowledge. There is one world of reality - one world of our experience that we're seeking to describe.”
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“Even scientific knowledge, if there is anything to it, is not a random observation of random objects; for the critical objectivity of significant knowledge is attained as a practice only philosophically in inner action.”
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“The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners.”
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“Being adequately informed is a democratic duty, just as the vote is a democratic right. A misinformed electorate, voting without knowledge, is not a true democracy.”
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“The profession of film director can and should be such a high and precious one; that no man aspiring to it can disregard any knowledge that will make him a better film director or human being.”
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“Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.”
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“I could heartily wish that every commission officer was to be previously examined; for, to my certain knowledge, there are persons who have already crept into commission without abilities or fit qualification: I am myself far from desiring to be excused.”
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“The new industries are brainy industries and so-called knowledge workers tend to like to be near other people who are the same. Think of the City of Hollywood. People cluster. This means you have winning regions, such as London and Cambridge, and losing regions. The people who want to be top lawyers in Sunderland are hoovered up by London.”
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“A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.”
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“You can acquire a lot of knowledge without ever going to school.”
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“Wonder is the desire for knowledge.”
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“How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in the truth.”
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“Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world.”
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“The laity ought to understand the faith, and since the doctrines of our faith are in the Scriptures, believers should have the Scriptures in a language familiar to the people, and to this end the Holy Ghost endued them with knowledge of all tongues.”
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“In complete darkness, it is only knowledge and wisdom that separates us.”
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“Imagination is more important than knowledge.”
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“What does mysticism really mean? It means the way to attain knowledge. It's close to philosophy, except in philosophy you go horizontally while in mysticism you go vertically.”
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“If in preaching the gospel you substitute your knowledge of the way of salvation for confidence in the power of the gospel, you hinder people from getting to reality.”
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“Although born in a prosperous realm, we did not believe that its boundaries should limit our knowledge, and that the lore of the East should alone enlighten us.”
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“A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance.”
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“With our knowledge of modern-day genetics, we realize that it was possible for God to place the potential for all people throughout history into the genes of Adam and Eve when He created them.”
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“Besides the practical knowledge which defeat offers, there are important personality profits to be taken.”
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“Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.”
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“If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.”
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“You don't need an explanation for everything, Recognize that there are such things as miracles - events for which there are no ready explanations. Later knowledge may explain those events quite easily.”
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“They don't hand out Ph.D.s in test piloting, but you pick up a tremendous amount of scientific and engineering knowledge along the way. After all, when you take up a brand new plane and put it through its paces to see if it will hang together, you are really flying somebody's theory.”
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“You cannot simply put something new into a place. You have to absorb what you see around you, what exists on the land, and then use that knowledge along with contemporary thinking to interpret what you see.”
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“The extent of our progress in the cultivation of knowledge is unlimited.”
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“In a spiral galaxy, the ratio of dark-to-light matter is about a factor of ten. That's probably a good number for the ratio of our ignorance to knowledge. We're out of kindergarten, but only in about third grade.”
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“Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.”
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“It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body.”
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“If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?”
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“The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.”
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“Borrowing knowledge of reality from all sources, taking the best from every study, Science of Mind brings together the highest enlightenment of the ages.”
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“If the Chinese will not learn the true principles of government, all else will be useless. Knowledge is power, and although a country may be weak, still, if it possess but a modicum of knowledge, the enemy will not be able to completely overthrow it; although that country may be in danger, the race will not be extirpated.”
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“There's a lot of information that has been in peoples' heads and hasn't gotten onto the Internet. Even as the Web has gotten really big, there's just been this gap. So we made Quora as a general place for people to share knowledge of all kinds.”
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“Knowledge and human power are synonymous.”
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“I felt completely ready to become prime minister. I came to office better equipped, in terms of knowledge of economics and of the Australian economy, than anyone before me, or since, I would say.”
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“I feel fortunate to be a part of a football community that includes leaders who recognize the power of sport to make a difference and who, like so many of my coaches, are defined not only by their knowledge but by their ability to bring out the best in every member of their teams.”
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“One may have broad or narrow talents, but only education renders them useful. Schools set up to train people will develop the intelligence of those who have it and end the stupidity of those who do not, providing a specialty to those who have narrow talent and broad knowledge to those with all-around ability.”
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“A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very beginning. One must learn from him who knows.”
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“After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.”
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“What patients seek is not scientific knowledge that doctors hide, but existential authenticity each person must find on her own… the angst of facing mortality has no remedy in probability.”
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“Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.”
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“The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.”
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“A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but a little want of knowledge is also a dangerous thing.”
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“Precision, speed, unambiguity, knowledge of files, continuity, discretion, unity, strict subordination, reduction of friction and of material and personal costs - these are raised to the optimum point in the strictly bureaucratic administration.”
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“At death, you're going to be needing some spiritual guidance and some kind of inner knowledge that extends beyond the boundaries of the physical world… it's what's inside that counts.”
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“Scientific discovery and scientific knowledge have been achieved only by those who have gone in pursuit of it without any practical purpose whatsoever in view.”
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“Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.”
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“Men we shall have only as we make manhood the object of the work of the schools - intelligence, broad sympathy, knowledge of the world that was and is, and of the relation of men to it - this is the curriculum of that Higher Education which must underlie true life.”
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“One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge.”
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“Democracy is a daring concept - a hope that we'll be best governed if all of us participate in the act of government. It is meant to be a conversation, a place where the intelligence and local knowledge of the electorate sums together to arrive at actions that reflect the participation of the largest possible number of people.”
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“And I pray thee, loving Jesus, that as Thou hast graciously given me to drink in with delight the words of Thy knowledge, so Thou wouldst mercifully grant me to attain one day to Thee, the fountain of all wisdom and to appear forever before Thy face.”
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“Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.”
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“Lean into your curiosity about any issue, and there will likely be people to share a little bit more of their knowledge and insight and give you ideas on how to make change.”
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“I shall suggest, on the contrary, that all communication relies, to a noticeable extent on evoking knowledge that we cannot tell, and that all our knowledge of mental processes, like feelings or conscious intellectual activities, is based on a knowledge which we cannot tell.”
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“In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.”
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“Considered now as a possession, one may define culture as the residuum of a large body of useless knowledge that has been well and truly forgotten.”
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“The things I will gain from Modric and Kroos will be unbelievable. Their knowledge of the game, the way they play it. The experience will be so great for me.”
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“Exclusively oral cultures are unencumbered by dead knowledge, dead facts. Libraries, on the other hand, are full of them.”
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“The thing I have discovered about working with personal finance is that the good news is that it is not rocket science. Personal finance is about 80 percent behavior. It is only about 20 percent head knowledge.”
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“The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.”
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“Ardor, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.”
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“Toward his critics, the artist harbors a defensive ace: knowledge that the future will erase the present.”
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“Scientific knowledge belongs to humanity.”
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“A true scientist doesn't perform prescribed experiments; she develops her own and thus generates wholly new knowledge.”
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“If a little knowledge was a dangerous thing, a lot was lethal.”
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“Giftedness gives you this amazing tool kit for handling self-discipline and gives you an area of knowledge, but then it also gives you this weird set of aspirations.”
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“Knowledge goes hand-in-hand with truth - something I learned with a bit of tough love from my Jesuit education first at Regis High School in New York City and then at Holy Cross College in Worcester, Mass.”
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“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.”
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“When I became an entrepreneur, I had the knowledge to develop and manage budgets, market products and review legal contracts.”
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“Not many venture firms have people whose job is to read academic research - on startups, ventures, and entrepreneurs - and gather knowledge from that.”
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“I study orbital dynamics as a hobby. My idea of a good time is sitting down and drawing on that knowledge to imagine a space mission from beginning to end, getting as many details right as I can.”
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“I needed more knowledge in rigging and knotting. I started collecting books on knots and really learning more and more. That's how it started. And also in magic, of course. With a piece of rope, you can do magic.”
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“Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.”
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“I am conscious of my inability to grasp, in all its details and positive developments, any very large portion of human knowledge.”
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“You will always have partial points of view, and you'll always have the story behind the story that hasn't come out yet. And any form of journalism you're involved with is going to be up against a biased viewpoint and partial knowledge.”
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“I argue that experiments have no special ability to produce more credible knowledge than other methods, and that actual experiments are frequently subject to practical problems that undermine any claims to statistical or epistemic superiority.”
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“He will therefore have to use what knowledge he can achieve, not to shape the results as the craftsman shapes his handiwork, but rather to cultivate a growth by providing the appropriate environment, in the manner in which the gardener does this for his plants.”
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“To deal with these problems - of world population and hunger, of peace, of energy and mineral resources, of environmental pollution, of poverty - we must broaden and deepen our knowledge of nature's laws, and we must broaden and deepen our understanding of the laws of human behavior.”
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“The primary goal of management education was, as originally conceived, to impart knowledge that could be applied to a variety of real-world business situations.”
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“Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous.”
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“Knowledge comes from the past, so it's safe. It is also out of date. It's the opposite of originality… Experience is the opposite of being creative.”
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“So I think it is common knowledge that Hitchcock had fantasies or whatever you want to call them about his leading ladies.”
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“I must confess that, at that time, I had absolutely no knowledge of the slowness of the relaxation processes in the ground state, processes which take place in collisions with the wall or with the molecules of a foreign gas.”
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“When I was 17 I decided to go to makeup school to learn some of the technical, basic knowledge that sometimes you step over. Then, when I was 18, someone at YouTube reached out to me and asked if I wanted to monetize my videos.”
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“I feel, sometimes, as the renaissance man must have felt in finding new riches at every point and in the certainty that unexplored areas of knowledge and experience await at every turn.”
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“It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance, for it requires knowledge to perceive it; and, therefore, he that can perceive it hath it not.”
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“'Class is more than money. Class is also about knowledge.' - bell hooks”
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“The secret to my 5 o'clock shadow is a little device called the George Michael 3000 Custom Beard Trimmer and Personal Massager. Just kidding. I actually shave every morning, and thanks to my vast knowledge of Eastern philosophy and mysticism, I will my facial hair to grow to the exact same length each day. Dave Grohl taught me that one.”
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“It's hard for me to imagine that some people in the CIA who had firsthand knowledge would be unable to recognize that this would be helpful information for a soldier's death.”
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“Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.”
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“I think it's important to remember that music supervision is not just about a fantastic record collection or knowledge of music, although that certainly helps for aspiring music supervisors.”
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“Pain is the root of knowledge.”
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“Our great power does not mean we can do whatever we want whenever we want, nor should we assume we have all the wisdom and knowledge necessary to succeed.”
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“The truth is that intelligence, knowledge, and domain expertise are vastly overrated as the driving forces behind competitive advantage and sustainable success.”
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“I don't get too political in my music, because some people tend to get bored with the message: I say what's necessary and leave it at that. The books of Malcolm X go deeper than any song. But entertainers can be educators. Music touches the soul. Knowledge touches the mind. When you combine the two, you capture the whole.”
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“Knowledge is sometimes superfluous: when we need it, we have it not.”
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“Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.”
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“The knowledge that there is a part of the psychic functions that are out of conscious reach, we did not need to wait for Freud to know this!”
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“I have been a teacher myself all my life. I have an intense passion to share with people. Our only salvation is in knowledge, in learning.”
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“For, verily, great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you little know it, you will be able to love it only little or not at all.”
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“I think the knowledge of where you come from gives you more of an affinity for understanding different cultures and learning.”
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“There are two languages: one as things seem to us and the other of knowledge.”
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“I think, in picking a doctor, you should focus less on the degree and more on their knowledge, bedside manner, communication, and patients' experiences.”
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“Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.”
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“Surely, if knowledge is valuable, it can never be good policy in a country far wealthier than Tuscany, to allow a genius like Mr. Dalton's, to be employed in the drudgery of elementary instruction.”
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“You think aerobics is not a cool sport? I think you are wrong. It requires amazing discipline - flexibility, fitness, knowledge. And you have to do it with a big smile on your face. Also, I once performed in front of 10,000 screaming women. I tell you something, I'd rather do that than kick a ball around in front of a few men.”
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“The current state of knowledge is a moment in history, changing just as rapidly as the state of knowledge in the past has ever changed and, in many instances, more rapidly.”
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“After the Berlin Wall came down I visited that city and I will never forget it. The abandoned checkpoints. The sense of excitement about the future. The knowledge that a great continent was coming together. Healing those wounds of our history is the central story of the European Union.”
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“But, in the name of the experimental method and out of our poor knowledge, are we really entitled to claim that everything happens by chance, to the exclusion of all other possibilities?”
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“These will vary in every human being; but knowledge is the same for every mind, and every mind may and ought to be trained to receive it.”
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“A healthy vision of the future is not possible without an accurate knowledge of the past.”
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“Sane judgment abhors nothing so much as a picture perpetrated with no technical knowledge, although with plenty of care and diligence.”
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“I have a pretty good knowledge of the Indian world by virtue of living on several different reservations and being exposed to several different cultures and languages.”
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“If you want to publish data, you should do it to share knowledge.”
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“There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.”
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“Knowledge is the parent of knowledge. He who possesses most of the information of his age will not quietly submit to neglect its current acquisitions, but will go on improving as long as means and opportunities offer; while he who finds himself ignorant of most things, is only too apt to shrink from a labour which becomes Herculean.”
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“I believe indeterminate sentencing can be extremely useful, but I also believe that any such system should always take into consideration the special knowledge as to the facts in a case which only the trial judge possesses.”
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“A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.”
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“The mathematical facts worthy of being studied are those which, by their analogy with other facts, are capable of leading us to the knowledge of a physical law.”
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“We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. The state in which we are is sinful, irrespective of guilt.”
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“I don't have much knowledge about Indian culture, but I try to keep a tab of what's happening down here.”
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“Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.”
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“But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.”
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“More and more jobs are applying cutting-edge technologies and now demand deeper knowledge of math and science in positions that most people don't think of as STEM-related, including machinists, electricians, auto techs, medical technicians, plumbers and pipefitters.”
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“Anyone who thinks that the vice-president can take a position independent of the president of his administration simply has no knowledge of politics or government. You are his choice in a political marriage, and he expects your absolute loyalty.”
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“I feel like I've reached an age where I can relax a little bit with the knowledge of what I've been through, take all that experience and use it. I love the challenge of trying to get back to where I've been, and beyond it.”
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“Without television and mass communication, that knowledge wouldn't exist. So I think it actually has the possibility of turning people into more understanding and more empathetic people.”
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“International relationships are preordained to be clumsy gestures based on imperfect knowledge.”
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“I've got the knowledge and experience to know what's going on in the cage or the ring. And I know how to entertain an audience and how to use the microphone. I know my market.”
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“Nothing has ever moulded our conscience so strongly as our knowledge of what is good and what is evil.”
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“A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy.”
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“So no one should rely on television either for their knowledge of music or for news. There's just more going on. It's an adjunct to the written word, which I think is still the most important thing.”
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“The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.”
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“I founded an educational software company called Knowledge Revolution. We had the first fully animated physics lab on the computer. You could take ropes, pulleys, balls and anything else you'd use in your physics textbook and the program would allow you to build anything you can think of in a physics lab.”
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“To unfold the secret laws and relations of those high faculties of thought by which all beyond the merely perceptive knowledge of the world and of ourselves is attained or matured, is a object which does not stand in need of commendation to a rational mind.”
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“Education in the light of present-day knowledge and need calls for some spirited and creative innovations both in the substance and the purpose of current pedagogy.”
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“Inductive reason, which alone makes man master of his environment, is an achievement; and when once born it must be reinforced by inhibiting the growth of other modes of knowledge.”
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“Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated.”
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“My father was a doctor, but he was what I would call an intellectual - very well-read and very interested in knowledge. He insisted that I get as much education as my brothers.”
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“There are those who have a knowledge and passion for the theatre, and those who don't.”
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“Golf… is the infallible test. The man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge that only God is watching him, and play his ball where it lies, is the man who will serve you faithfully and well.”
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“There is a general knowledge that I am multi-dimensional, that when you are creative you do a lot of things.”
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“I realized that I still had a lot to offer the game. My knowledge could maybe help younger guys. I enjoyed being around the clubhouse, on the field.”
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“When obedience to the Divine precepts keeps pace with knowledge, in the mind of any man, that man is a Christian; and when the fruits of Christianity are produced, that man is a disciple of our blessed Lord, let his profession of religion be what it may.”
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“Wild Bill was anything but a quarrelsome man yet I have personal knowledge of at least half a dozen men whom he had at various times killed.”
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“Wisdom comes from within. Knowledge is acquired and can sometimes put a screen on your wisdom.”
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“In your thirst for knowledge, be sure not to drown in all the information.”
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“My life will not be defined by a single political campaign. Those will come and go. But what has driven me to run for elected office in the past still drives me today: the knowledge that heroes do walk among us with tremendous strength and power.”
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“Education gives girls the knowledge, experience, and confidence to play their rightful role in society.”
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“I'm open to reading almost anything - fiction, nonfiction - as long as I know from the first sentence or two that this is a voice I want to listen to for a good long while. It has much to do with imagery and language, a particular perspective, the assured knowledge of the particular universe the writer has created.”
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“Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ.”
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“Perhaps as good a classification as any of the main types is that of the three lusts distinguished by traditional Christianity - the lust of knowledge, the lust of sensation, and the lust of power.”
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“I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House - with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.”
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“Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in your seeds.”
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“When it comes to power, God Himself is the power. God often uses foolish things to confound the wise. That is why people like me will ever be grateful to God. In terms of knowledge, education and name, I am nowhere - a neglected stone.”
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“Knowledge is and will be produced in order to be sold, it is and will be consumed in order to be valorised in a new production: in both cases, the goal is exchange.”
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“Electrical science has revealed to us the true nature of light, has provided us with innumerable appliances and instruments of precision, and has thereby vastly added to the exactness of our knowledge.”
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“He that hath knowledge spareth his words.”
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“They that are intoxicated by self-conceit have interposed themselves between it and the Divine and infallible Physician. Witness how they have entangled all men, themselves included, in the mesh of their devices. They can neither discover the cause of the disease, nor have they any knowledge of the remedy.”
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“I think what's perhaps lacking in Indian body builders is advanced knowledge of the sport. You'd be surprised to know that even the average European isn't really that aware about it either.”
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“Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.”
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“The general knowledge of time on the island depends, curiously enough, on the direction of the wind.”
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“Women have full equality with men before the Lord. By nature, the roles of women differ from those of men. This knowledge has come to us with the Restoration of the gospel in the fullness of times, with an acknowledgment that women are endowed with the great responsibilities of motherhood and nurturing.”
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“Learned men are the cisterns of knowledge, not the fountainheads.”
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“Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.”
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“Knowledge is power. Most of us agree that something has to be done to strengthen Social Security, and I believe it's irresponsible to arbitrarily dismiss any idea, Republican nor Democrat, without giving it a hard look.”
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“Patriotism is voluntary. It is a feeling of loyalty and allegiance that is the result of knowledge and belief. A patriot shows their their patriotism through their actions, by their choice.”
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“Just as we might take Darwin as an example of the normal extraverted thinking type, the normal introverted thinking type could be represented by Kant. The one speaks with facts, the other relies on the subjective factor. Darwin ranges over the wide field of objective reality, Kant restricts himself to a critique of knowledge.”
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“The accumulation of knowledge is a powerful thing.”
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“What the Kinseyites and I had in common so long ago was the knowledge that homosexual and heterosexual behavior are natural to all mammals, and that what differs from individual to individual is the balance between these two complementary but not necessarily conflicted drives.”
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“You should not ask questions without knowledge.”
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“Of the five most important things in life, health is first, education or knowledge is second, and wealth is third. I forget the other two.”
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“When David Marr at MIT moved into computer vision, he generated a lot of excitement, but he hit up against the problem of knowledge representation; he had no good representations for knowledge in his vision systems.”
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“In the brain, you have connections between the neurons called synapses, and they can change. All your knowledge is stored in those synapses.”
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“There is, however, another purpose to which academies contribute. When they consist of a limited number of persons, eminent for their knowledge, it becomes an object of ambition to be admitted on their list.”
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“The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.”
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“And my first film was Carnal Knowledge, another amazing experience, largely because of Mike Nichols, who would tell me you can't do anything wrong because you're doing everything right.”
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“My finances have been decimated by a group of people, such as my ex-attorney, my ex-business manager, and an estate planner, specifically. And they have conspired together to - to co-op my corporations, put in trustees without my knowledge.”
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“The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.”
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“I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge; I am one who is fond of antiquity, and earnest in seeking it there.”
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“In order to arrive at knowledge of the motions of birds in the air, it is first necessary to acquire knowledge of the winds, which we will prove by the motions of water in itself, and this knowledge will be a step enabling us to arrive at the knowledge of beings that fly between the air and the wind.”
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“It's vital to understand where you may have gaps in your knowledge or experience and to surround yourself with a team that complements that.”
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“If the knowledge of the cost of the carbon tax in itself would cause injury to the Canadian economy, then that cost must be even worse than we have imagined.”
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“It takes a couple of years just to get the background and knowledge that you need before you can go into detailed training for your mission.”
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“It always seems to me so odd that when a man dies, he takes out with him all the knowledge that he has got in his lifetime whilst sowing his wild oats or winning successes. And he leaves his sons or younger brothers to go through all the work of learning it over again from their own experience.”
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“I was brought up in a family which valued natural history. Both my parents knew the names of all the British wildflowers, so as we went walking the country, I was constantly being exposed to a natural history sort of knowledge.”
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“Failure is knowledge, and knowledge is success.”
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“The university's business is the conservation of useless knowledge; and what the university itself apparently fails to see is that this enterprise is not only noble but indispensable as well, that society can not exist unless it goes on.”
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“Therefore when the mind knows itself and loves itself, there remains a trinity, that is the mind, love and knowledge.”
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“Is there anything science should not try to explain? Science is knowledge and knowledge is power - power to do good or evil. Sometimes ignorance is bliss.”
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“Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment.”
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“Design is a powerful factor in communication between disciplines and stakeholders and can transform knowledge into creative, human-oriented solutions that can promote companies' and countries' competitive ability and foster innovation and growth.”
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“We believe… that by encouraging critical thinking and processing of knowledge we are creating full, well-rounded human beings… that will enable Qatar to build up its society. You cannot build a healthy society without giving your citizens a sense of ownership. Otherwise, they will not share with you the responsibilities.”
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“Every couple of years when your book comes out then you have to go into these fights with the publisher and the publicist and then maybe I bring sort of my knowledge of power into play.”
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“When you ask people questions about what they've done, not only do you get knowledge, but they like you because people like to be asked questions about what they've done and talk to someone who's interested in them.”
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“Science, in the broadest sense, includes all reasonable claims to knowledge about ourselves and the world.”
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“There's a wealth of information and knowledge you can gain from sitting down with people who are successful.”
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“Only an intervention by women around the world, with their innate knowledge of interdependency, deep listening, empathy and self-sacrifice, could possibly alter our species' desperate course.”
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“We will ensure that associates continue to possess unsurpassed product knowledge and maintain their dedication to customer service and respect for their colleagues and for the communities in which they work and live.”
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“It is essential to the pure and peaceful administration of justice that all its officers keep carefully within the boundaries of their constitutional powers. Auxiliary to this, but not secondary in importance, is a due knowledge of the leading subjects for their inquiry and decision.”
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“I couldn't really experience being an author when I was still working in publishing - I was trying to negotiate being both. Sometimes the knowledge doesn't translate between the two roles.”
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“Human relations are built on feeling, not on reason or knowledge. And feeling is not an exact science; like all spiritual qualities, it has the vagueness of greatness about it.”
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“Argument is conclusive, but it does not remove doubt, so that the mind may rest in the sure knowledge of the truth, unless it finds it by the method of experiment.”
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“When knowledge is cut off from traditional values, it becomes disastrous.”
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“The fondest dream of the information age is to create an archive of all knowledge. You might call it the Alexandrian fantasy, after the great library founded by Ptolemy I in 286 BC.”
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“The silencing of the rainforests is a double deforestation, not only of trees but a deforestation of the mind's music, medicine and knowledge.”
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“Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.”
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“Our problem, from the point of view of psychology and from the point of view of genetic epistemology, is to explain how the transition is made from a lower level of knowledge to a level that is judged to be higher.”
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“Checking the results of a decision against its expectations shows executives what their strengths are, where they need to improve, and where they lack knowledge or information.”
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“The fact that television and tourism have made the whole world accessible has created the illusion that we enjoy intimate knowledge of other places, when we barely scratch their surface. For the vast majority, the knowledge of Thailand or Sri Lanka acquired through tourism consists of little more than the whereabouts of the beach.”
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“The family teaches us about the importance of knowledge, education, hard work and effort. It teaches us about enjoying ourselves, having fun, keeping fit and healthy.”
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“To my mind, most people go through life recoiling from its best parts. They miss the enrichment that just a basic knowledge of the physical world can bring to the most ordinary experiences.”
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“All around me insisted that my doubts proved only my own ignorance and sinfulness; that they knew by experience they would soon give place to true knowledge, and an advance in religion; and I felt something like indecision.”
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“Call a man 'ignorant,' and you have license to show the world your vast fund of knowledge and wise him up.”
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“The liberal professions, and in a wider sense the well-to-do classes, are certainly those with the liveliest taste for knowledge and the most active intellectual life.”
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“We became Homo sapiens not that long ago, from the scientific perspective, and we've retained a lot of our beast nature. We've done all these amazing things in terms of our knowledge base and technology, and now we're flying around and using the Internet. But we're still very animalistic.”
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“The deductive method is the mode of using knowledge, and the inductive method the mode of acquiring it.”
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“No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent.”
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“Going into my second Summer League, I felt like I had more knowledge. Just being around the game and learning your routines, and just learning from other guys that you're around, you feel like you pick up on a lot of stuff.”
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“To the best of my knowledge and of my effort, every lineage statement within 'Roots' is from either my African or American families' carefully preserved oral history, much of which I have been able conventionally to corroborate with documents.”
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“My personal growth stems from the humility with which I navigate the world, namely with a reverence for all of the knowledge that I've yet to learn but that is out there available to me.”
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“I have a vision for what I want wrestling to be, and I was fortunate not just to have the opportunity to show my talents at the right time, and not just to have the right opponents, and not just to have the knowledge that the front office has faith in me, but also the good fortune not to get hurt in the middle of all this.”
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“I think that the failure of newspaper competition in a community is a very serious handicap to the dissemination of the knowledge that the citizens need to participate in a democracy.”
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“The earliest maps were 'story' maps. Cartographers were artists who mingled knowledge with supposition, memory and fears. Their maps described both landscape and the events, which had taken place within it, enabling travellers to plot a route as well as to experience a story.”
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“To the best of my knowledge, none of the Beatles can read music.”
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“General Biassou is a simple, vulnerable man without much knowledge, and he is easily led astray by the scoundrels surrounding him. He has sworn eternal hatred for me, and for some time now, he has been trying to destroy me using whatever means he can.”
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“As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the greatest possible ease.”
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“Men need knowledge in order to overpower their passions and master their prejudices.”
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“Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.”
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“I think a lot of people have grown up with the idea that they can't learn things themselves. They think they need an institution to provide them with knowledge and teach them how to do things. I couldn't disagree more.”
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“Listen to my advice; I have some experience. In a way, it is me being a teacher, which is what I wanted to be. I still feel I could go into teaching. What is teaching but passing on your knowledge to those who are at the beginning? Some people are born with that gift.”
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“We don't focus as much in schools on educational knowledge which requires thinking and application, as we do on acquiring facts.”
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“In these days when science is clearly in the saddle and when our knowledge of disease is advancing at a breathless pace, we are apt to forget that not all can ride and that he also serves who waits and who applies what the horseman discovers.”
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“Data is the fabric of the modern world: just like we walk down pavements, so we trace routes through data, and build knowledge and products out of it.”
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“The future of the world, dependent as it is upon atomic energy, requires more understanding and knowledge about the atom.”
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“I want to be safe in the knowledge that I can tour and play festivals for a long time. The main thing is that I want a good reputation as a live performer. If I have that, I'd be so happy.”
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“Aging is an inevitable process. I surely wouldn't want to grow younger. The older you become, the more you know; your bank account of knowledge is much richer.”
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“His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge.”
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“I don't claim to be knowledgeable about theology. Most of my knowledge comes out of my experience and the lessons in the Bible. Every Sunday I'm home I teach 45 minutes and we boiled them down to one page for the new book, 'Through the Year with Jimmy Carter.'”
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“The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.”
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“Knowledge is not simply another commodity. On the contrary. Knowledge is never used up. It increases by diffusion and grows by dispersion.”
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“Knowledge doesn't really form part of human nature. Conflict, combat, the outcome of the combat, and, consequently, risk and chance are what gives rise to knowledge. Knowledge is not instinctive; it is counter instinctive, just as it is not natural but counter natural.”
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“We have to realize only in communication, in real knowledge, in real reaching out, can there be an understanding that there's humanity everywhere, and that's what I'm trying to do.”
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“My objective was never to make money. I wanted to contribute to human knowledge and betterment.”
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“Zeal will do more than knowledge.”
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“Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance.”
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“Time is only an idea. There is only the Reality. Whatever you think it is, it looks like that. If you call it time, it is time. If you call it existence, it is existence, and so on. After calling it time, you divide it into days and nights, months, years, hours, minutes, etc. Time is immaterial for the Path of Knowledge.”
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“Moreover, all our knowledge of organic remains teaches us, that species have a definite existence, and a centralization in geological time as well as in geographical space, and that no species is repeated in time.”
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“Almost all the knowledge required to produce more food than eroding soil is available today - we just need to use that knowledge within a holistic paradigm - managing agriculture holistically, forming the policies that undergird it holistically.”
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“I'm a student of world religion, so to me, it's hugely important to have knowledge and to understand what people are doing.”
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“A man acquainted with history may, in some respect, be said to have lived from the beginning of the world, and to have been making continual additions to his stock of knowledge in every century.”
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“The knowledge of God is the cause of things. For the knowledge of God is to all creatures what the knowledge of the artificer is to things made by his art.”
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“Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.”
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“Poverty and lack of knowledge must be challenged.”
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“We give you the facts. I told you information is power - knowledge is power. We can't be in an ideological battle to redeem the soul of this country if we don't have the facts.”
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“All along we find that social life - religion, politics, art - reflects the stages reached in the development of the knowledge of self; it shows the social uses made of this knowledge.”
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“Nobody must judge me based on my decisions, and only my knowledge and education must be the criteria to judge me.”
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“We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profoundly enough; that we need to know ourselves better; that we require knowledge, not just of self and others, but of the way things are.”
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“The idea would be in my mind - and I know it sounds strange - is that the most important advances in medicine would be made not by new knowledge in molecular biology, because that's exceeding what we can even use. It'll be made by mathematicians, physicists, computer scientists, figuring out a way to get all that information together.”
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“I don't know anything about antiques. I do buy them now, but I have a little knowledge, and great enthusiasm.”
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“I love playing instruments that I don't know how to play or am not familiar with. I like the idea of danger and innocence that comes from it. As an artist, I feel I should be able to do something with anything I get my hands on. The music becomes minimalist because of my limited knowledge.”
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“Intuition and concepts constitute… the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.”
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“Since ancient times, people from throughout Asia have brought to Japan their talents, knowledge and energy, helping to lay the basis for Japan's existence as a country.”
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“While we cannot predict the future, we will most surely live it. Every action and decision we take - or don't - ripples into the future. For the first time, we have the capability, the technology, and the knowledge to direct those ripples.”
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“Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination.”
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“In order to the existence of such a ministry in the Church, there is requisite an authority received from God, and consequently power and knowledge imparted from God for the exercise of such ministry; and where a man possesses these, although the bishop has not laid hands upon him according to his traditions, God has Himself appointed him.”
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“Aversion toward the blind exists for the same reason that most prejudices exist: lack of knowledge. Ignorance is a powerful generator of fear. And fear slides easily into aggression and contempt.”
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“A man of knowledge chooses a path with a heart and follows it and then he looks and rejoices and laughs and then he sees and knows.”
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“I and my colleagues here have been engaged in the pursuit of knowledge.”
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“The fitness of the pupil is shown in his love for the acquisition of knowledge, his willingness to receive instruction, his reverence for learned and virtuous men, his attendance upon the teacher, and his execution of orders.”
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“The knowledge we have of communication among cells does not permit my giving you a sophisticated understanding.”
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“I wanted to contribute my time, myself, my knowledge, my love, because Haiti is my everything.”
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“The career of politics grants a feeling of power. The knowledge of influencing men, of participating in power over them, and above all, the feeling of holding in one's hands a nerve fiber of historically important events can elevate the professional politician above everyday routine even when he is placed in formally modest positions.”
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“There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge - that is everywhere.”
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“There should be no obstacles to accessing knowledge.”
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“I made my money with software - encoded knowledge without which few products and services can exist today - and so it seemed imperative that this would be the field where I would give something back.”
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“The ultimate ground of faith and knowledge is confidence in God.”
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“A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance.”
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“I've learned that I've just barely scratched the surface of knowledge of the profession, and I have deep envy of and appreciation for filmmakers who really, truly understand the physics, the design of filmmaking. They can do story and color and composition and geometry and math and science all at once.”
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“It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.”
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“The knowledge and spiritual conviction we receive from the Holy Ghost are the result of revelation.”
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“The government should train and direct the people in their acquisition of political knowledge and ability, thereby enabling them to exercise the powers of election, recall, initiative, and referendum.”
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“Helping someone come to a saving knowledge of Christ is the greatest achievement possible.”
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“Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.”
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“The increase of scientific knowledge lies not only in the occasional milestones of science, but in the efforts of the very large body of men who with love and devotion observe and study nature.”
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“Creation's highest aim and most sublime result is belief in God. The most exalted rank of humanity is knowledge of God.”
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“I have been lucky enough to work with great coaches. My father was also a coach, and my position in central midfield requires tactical knowledge.”
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“Knowledge is a beautiful thing, but there are a few things I wish I didn't know.”
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“Everyone wants a hand in the outcome, a piece of the knowledge.”
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“I wish I had known that education is the key. That knowledge is power. Now I pick up books and watch educational shows with my husband. I'm seeing how knowledge can elevate you.”
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“It is personal - deep in my bones and my flesh - the knowledge that we squandered our chance to avoid the climate emergency; to act when it would have been so much easier, as we did to stop acid rain, to save the ozone layer.”
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“I went to the States with that amount of prejudice which seems the birthright of every English person, but I found that, under the knowledge of the Americans which can be attained by a traveller mixing in society in every grade, these prejudices gradually melted away.”
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“What I look for when I see a piece of art for the first time is some kind of emotional, intellectual experience, that's a combination of both of those things and is informed by my knowledge and something new that I see the artist doing.”
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“Science is based on reproducibility and manufactured objectivity. As strong as that makes its ability to generate claims about matter and energy, it also makes scientific knowledge inapplicable to the existential, visceral nature of human life, which is unique and subjective and unpredictable.”
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“It created a global platform that allowed more people to plug and play, collaborate and compete, share knowledge and share work, than anything we have ever seen in the history of the world.”
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“Experience is knowledge; but knowledge, when it is sought only as a material resource, is not always a blessing. Experience is wisdom; but wisdom, with those who lack vision, is not always power. Experience is tolerance; but tolerance, when it is induced by apathy, is not in the least a virtue.”
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“All knowledge which ends in words will die as quickly as it came to life, with the exception of the written word: which is its mechanical part.”
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“If I give someone flowers, what will they really do with it. If I take food, the person could be diabetic… But books are a source of knowledge, I have great thirst for knowledge.”
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“The knowledge that makes us cherish innocence makes innocence unattainable.”
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“Perhaps the prevalence of pedantry may be largely accounted for by the common error of thinking that, because useful knowledge should be remembered, any kind of knowledge that is at all worth learning should be remembered too.”
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“I have a bunch of storylines that I could pass to other performers or especially all my knowledge that I have when it comes to building matches, to creating an exciting finish or telling stories in the ring.”
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“Humans are distinguished from other species by a massive brain that enables us to imagine a future and influence it by what we do in the present. By using experience, knowledge and insight, our ancestors recognized they could anticipate dangers and opportunities and take steps to exploit advantages and avoid hazards.”
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“Proselytism is solemn nonsense; it makes no sense. We need to get to know each other, listen to each other and improve our knowledge of the world around us.”
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“I have appeared on 'The Dr. Oz show' and recognize that Dr. Oz does not hold the exact same viewpoints about all controversies in human nutrition that I do, but he has a huge base of knowledge and is open-minded and willing to re-consider a position based on emerging evidence on multiple scientific and health issues.”
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“The Founders believed liberty came directly from God. With their knowledge of Scripture, they knew each child was made in the image of God. That is why everyone had dignity, value and worth.”
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“If you connect with a greater part of yourself, I call it higher self, but that's an experience, and when you do this, knowledge comes in, including intuition, and it's always about, 'What's my heart's sole desire?'”
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“Every one of my opponents, every one of my critics, will tell you that I am a generalist spread far too thin in an age when this is not done anymore, when responsible knowledge is specialized knowledge.”
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“The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.”
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“I clearly saw an opportunity with 'Supernanny' to reach not just one family but lots of people, and to give everyone the benefit of my knowledge and experience.”
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“Belief and knowledge are considered to be two different things. But they are not.”
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“Building technical systems involves a lot of hard work and specialized knowledge: languages and protocols, coding and debugging, testing and refactoring.”
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“I think it is totally wrong and terribly harmful if education is defined as acquiring knowledge.”
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“When you deal with a person who's experiencing dementia, you can see where they're struggling with knowledge. You can see what they forget completely, what they forget but they know what they once knew. You can tell how they're trying to remember.”
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“Anyone, if he has a will and basic knowledge, can create something substantial.”
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“I loved being in the film called 'Carnal Knowledge' - the one with Jack Nicholson, which was very dark but a really brilliant movie. I loved being in 'The Ritz.' 'The Ritz' I think is just hilarious. I just saw it again recently and by God, it's still funny!”
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“I love sharing my knowledge of hitting with others. Now coaches and players at all levels can learn my systematic approach to hitting a baseball with more consistency, mental strength and accuracy.”
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“The only knowledge which satisfies us is one which is subject to no external standards but springs from the inner life of the personality.”
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“Be certain of this: that the highest aim of creation and its most important result are belief in God. The most exalted rank in humanity and its highest degree are the knowledge of God contained within belief in God.”
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“For those who have obtained unobstructed knowledge of Self, the world is seen merely as a bondage causing imagination.”
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“Music moves forward so quickly; music is an accumulation of knowledge, and musicians keep getting better and better.”
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“I find a tremendous receptivity among the public for the subject matter of, 'Where did we come from and how did we get here?' People are thirsty and hungry for information on our origins. I feel a responsibility as a major figure in the area… to convey to the public the knowledge of human origins in a way that is understandable to them.”
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“In the past, I used to counter any such notions by asking myself: 'Would you really want President Hattersley?' I now find that possibility rather cheers me up. With his chubby, Dickensian features and his knowledge of T.H. Green and other harmless leftish political classics, Hattersley might not be such a bad thing after all.”
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“With my fashion knowledge, I do stitch things randomly at times.”
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“To express the same idea in still another way, I think that human knowledge is essentially active.”
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“It's my job to know what's available from every retailer, catalog, website, antiques mall, and craftsperson. A good designer or decorator has to have an almost encyclopedic knowledge.”
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“Of course, we would love to know more about the exact moment of Big Bang, but interposing an outside intelligence does nothing to add to that knowledge, as we still know nothing about the creation of that intelligence.”
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“Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.”
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“There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God.”
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“I talk about a Christianity that is enlightened enough to separate spirituality from the rest of life. Not just church and state, but knowledge and church.”
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“Knowledge, the object of knowledge and the knower are the three factors which motivate action; the senses, the work and the doer comprise the threefold basis of action.”
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“Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.”
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“I have a great advantage over many of my colleagues inasmuch as my students bring with them to class their own personal knowledge of national, regional, religious, ethnic, occupational, and family folklore traditions.”
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“The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.”
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“To say, 'well done' to any bit of good work is to take hold of the powers which have made the effort and strengthen them beyond our knowledge.”
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“It will be readily admitted, that a degree conferred by an university, ought to be a pledge to the public that he who holds it possesses a certain quantity of knowledge.”
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“Purity is not imposed upon us as though it were a kind of punishment, it is one of those mysterious but obvious conditions of that supernatural knowledge of ourselves in the Divine, which we speak of as faith. Impurity does not destroy this knowledge, it slays our need for it.”
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“Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.”
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“It is common knowledge that social media today is fertile ground for trampling all over the decency of language. This is done not just by members of your party and your supporters but also those from the opposition. And their numbers are increasing every day.”
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“I don't think any person has any special knowledge about what God has planned for me and you any more than me and you do.”
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“I read many things. I read to fill in my knowledge of the world.”
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“Good architecture should be a projection of life itself, and that implies an intimate knowledge of biological, social, technical, and artistic problems.”
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“The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.”
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“My thirst for knowledge and experience comes from the idea that once you learned something, it was time to learn something else. I missed out on a formal educational process, so I'm making up for that.”
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“And let me tell you, you boys of America, that there is no higher inspiration to any man to be a good man, a good citizen, and a good son, brother, or father, than the knowledge that you come from honest blood.”
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“The generous wish to share with all what is precious, to spread broadcast priceless truths, to shut out none from the illumination of true knowledge, has resulted in a zeal without discretion that has vulgarised Christianity, and has presented its teachings in a form that often repels the heart and alienates the intellect.”
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“Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying.”
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“The seat of knowledge is in the head; of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right.”
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“A great many things which in times of lesser knowledge we imagined to be superstitious or useless, prove today on examination to have been of immense value to mankind.”
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“In the Atlantean period there were many energies being used and information and knowledge being used which were, for particular reasons of safety, withdrawn, shall we say, to prevent complete catastrophe, to prevent total destruction of your planet.”
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“I never had a traditional mentor. I know people who have been successful with a mentor, but I've never understood why I should limit myself to the knowledge and expertise of one person.”
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“What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.”
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“The business of a scientific school is the dissemination of useful knowledge, and this is a noble enterprise and indispensable withal; society can not exist unless it goes on.”
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“On our plane knowledge and ignorance are the immemorial adversaries.”
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“And it has become a kind of a truism in the study of creativity that you can't be creating anything with less than 10 years of technical knowledge immersion in a particular field.”
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“An image of the Earth, its landscapes, directly affects people. The beauty of the Earth creates enormous emotion, and through that emotion, you can transmit knowledge and raise consciousness.”
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“This country deserves a statesman who can represent the people with proper decorum, respect, and knowledge of what's happening in the world, and I don't believe that Donald Trump represents any of that.”
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“Religion and science are the two conjugated faces or phases of one and the same complete act of knowledge - the only one which can embrace the past and future of evolution and so contemplate, measure and fulfil them.”
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“The medieval university looked backwards; it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge. The modern university looks forward, and is a factory of new knowledge.”
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“Somebody does know how stuff works, and knowledge is power. Thus, as we become enslaved by our ever-more sophisticated technology, we are at the mercy of those with The Knowledge, and their arrogance is growing. Beware geeks bearing gifts.”
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“When a child comes in, I believe that it's a 'multipersonhood,' and it knows it, its consciousness knows it, and it has a nuclei in the center of its consciousness that is the repository of all experience and all knowledge. And when you look in the eyes of your baby and you feel this sense that they are an old soul, I believe indeed they are.”
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“You can practice to attain knowledge, but you can't practice to attain wisdom.”
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“Science, we are repeatedly told, is the most reliable form of knowledge about the world because it is based on testable hypotheses. Religion, by contrast, is based on faith. The term 'doubting Thomas' well illustrates the difference.”
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“In truth, opinion may be taken for understanding; understanding cannot be taken for opinion. How so? Surely because opinion may be deceived; understanding cannot be. If it could, it would not be understanding but opinion. For true understanding has not only certain truth, but the knowledge of truth.”
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“At any rate, girls are differently situated. Having no need of deep scientific knowledge, their education is confined more to the ordinary things of the world, the study of the fine arts, and of the manners and dispositions of people.”
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“The foundation of our religion is a basis of fact - the fact of the birth, ministry, miracles, death, resurrection by the Evangelists as having actually occurred, within their own personal knowledge.”
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“We have built our identities in many respects based on the guilt-ridden stories we have been told about our creation. For women, it is a very damning knowledge to be portrayed as curious and careless seductresses.”
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“In other words, knowledge of the external world begins with an immediate utilisation of things, whereas knowledge of self is stopped by this purely practical and utilitarian contact.”
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“Experience alone can give a final answer. The knowledge gained in a few years by a commission of the kind suggested would be worth more than volumes of mere assertions and contradictions.”
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“Kids are smart. Knowledge is power. Let them figure things out. Don't turn into that grown-up who they won't come to.”
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“A hallmark of a healthy creative culture is that its people feel free to share ideas, opinions, and criticisms. Our decision-making is better when we draw on the collective knowledge and unvarnished opinions of the group.”
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“When we value correct principles, we have truth - a knowledge of things as they are.”
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“If schools don't make books important then children who come from homes with no books, and who don't visit libraries, will never find their way into this vital way of presenting ideas, feelings and knowledge.”
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“To those who have chosen the profession of medicine, a knowledge of chemistry, and of some branches of natural history, and, indeed, of several other departments of science, affords useful assistance.”
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“We can summarize electricity, magnetism and gravity into equations one inch long, and that's the power of field theory. And so I said to myself: I will create a field theory of strings. And when I did it one day, it was incredible, realizing that on a sheet of paper I can write down an equation which summarized almost all physical knowledge.”
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“How can smart women be so stupid about men sometimes? Lack of knowledge. It's what men have kept secret for so long.”
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“We learn much during our sleep, and the knowledge thus gained slowly filters into the physical brain, and is occasionally impressed upon it as a vivid and illuminative dream.”
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“I think education is both using and improving knowledge and that changes the whole picture.”
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“Cerner's focus over the last 20 years has been to provide healthcare, predominately healthcare providers, with advanced clinical and management information systems. Our mission is to connect the appropriate persons, knowledge, and resources at the appropriate time and location to achieve the optimal health outcome.”
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“In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win.”
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“Hubble isn't just a satellite; it's about humanity's quest for knowledge.”
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“To that class we may leave it to refine the vernacular dialects of the country, to enrich those dialects with terms of science borrowed from the Western nomenclature, and to render them by degrees fit vehicles for conveying knowledge to the great mass of the population.”
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“Throughout the past, there has been a lack of intimacy, affection, and regard for Islam by Christianity. This, to a large extent, has been due to a lack of knowledge of the great human and spiritual ideals for which Islam and the teachings of Islam stand.”
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“Useless knowledge can be made directly contributory to a force of sound and disinterested public opinion.”
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“Education, whatever else it should or should not be, must be an inoculation against the poisons of life and an adequate equipment in knowledge and skill for meeting the chances of life.”
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“All true happiness, pure joy, sweet bounties, and unclouded pleasure are contained within the knowledge and love of God.”
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“We fear that this moment will end, that we won't get what we need, that we will lose what we love, or that we will not be safe. Often, our biggest fear is the knowledge that one day our bodies will cease functioning. So even when we are surrounded by all the conditions for happiness, our joy is not complete.”
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“A humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning.”
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“I never think about my age very much. I've always lived my life the same way, full of excitement and anticipation of wonderful things and the knowledge that some not-so-wonderful things come with it.”
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“It is the duty of the followers of Islam to spread through the civilised world, a knowledge of what Islam means - its spirit and message.”
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“Life has obliged him to remember so much useful knowledge that he has lost not only his history, but his whole original cargo of useless knowledge; history, languages, literatures, the higher mathematics, or what you will - are all gone.”
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“My job will be to transmit - using my experience, my knowledge - with the intention of making the player more professional. I want to be a 'life-coach' who helps them to think, to make decisions, to manage their emotions with intelligence in difficult situations.”
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“I think a lot of people, even Christians, are willing to be satisfied with gaining lots and lots of biblical knowledge - and many people go to Bible studies and don't realize it isn't enough to know what's right, it's applying the information and the knowledge that you have.”
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“I came literally to the table with a wealth of knowledge by simply understanding how food should taste.”
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“Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.”
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“Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.”
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“In 20 or 30 years, you'll be able to hold in your hand as much computing knowledge as exists now in the whole city, or even the whole world.”
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“The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.”
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“It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.”
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“The ability to think straight, some knowledge of the past, some vision of the future, some skill to do useful service, some urge to fit that service into the well-being of the community - these are the most vital things education must try to produce.”
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“If we had failed to pursue the facts as far as they led, we would have denied the public any knowledge of an unprecedented scheme of political surveillance and sabotage.”
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“I don't know what is better than the work that is given to the actor - to teach the human heart the knowledge of itself.”
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“Seldom ever was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.”
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“Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.”
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“The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge.”
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“A complacent satisfaction with present knowledge is the chief bar to the pursuit of knowledge.”
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“If you're a singer you lose your voice. A baseball player loses his arm. A writer gets more knowledge, and if he's good, the older he gets, the better he writes.”
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“The passionate controversies of one era are viewed as sterile preoccupations by another, for knowledge alters what we seek as well as what we find.”
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“Getting along with men isn't what's truly important. The vital knowledge is how to get along with a man, one man.”
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“The utmost extent of man's knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.”
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“It would be great to be able to pass on to someone all of the successes, the failures, and the knowledge that one has had. To help someone, avoid all the fire, pain and anxiety would be wonderful.”
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“Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are not.”
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“Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.”
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“True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.”
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“A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality.”