"To drown in treacle is just as unpleasant as to drown in mud.People today are in danger of drowning in information; but because they have been taught information is useful, they are more willing to drown than they need be.If they could handle information, they would not have to drown at all.The lightning said to the oak tree: 'Stand aside, or take what is coming to you!"

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"To drown in treacle is just as unpleasant as to drown in mud.People today are in danger of drowning in information; but because they have been taught information is useful, they are more willing to drown than they need be.If they could handle information, they would not have to drown at all.The lightning said to the oak tree: 'Stand aside, or take what is coming to you!"

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Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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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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"Science is a proven concept with standards. Wisdom is the knowledge of life that we learn by living it."

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Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"One of the most important gifts that you can give to yourself is the gift of self-education, that is the best way to grow on constant basis."

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"If you begin to read, you find the answers you seek."

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"Understand the concept of time and find ways to maximize it effectively."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"Why must ignorance be destroyed? Because it is the number one destroyer of the people of God."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"Oh, my dear Vimes, history changes all the time. It is constantly being re-examined and re-evaluated, otherwise how would we be able to keep historians occupied? We can't possibly allow people with their sort of minds to walk around with time on their hands."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

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"Be warned, reader. Once seen, something cannot be unseen and once read, something cannot be unread. What lies ahead can be the future of spirit but the future of spirit can also be what lies inside your head."

S. A. Tawks, British Author

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"There is only a perspective seeing, only a perspective "knowing"; and the more affects we allow to speak about one thing, the more eyes, different eyes, we can use to observe one thing, the more complete will our "concept" of this thing, our "objectivity," be."

"Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know."

"Science is a proven concept with standards. Wisdom is the knowledge of life that we learn by living it."

"If we knew what is already there, there will be no need for research."

"One of the most important gifts that you can give to yourself is the gift of self-education, that is the best way to grow on constant basis."

"If you begin to read, you find the answers you seek."

"Understand the concept of time and find ways to maximize it effectively."

"Why must ignorance be destroyed? Because it is the number one destroyer of the people of God."

"Oh, my dear Vimes, history changes all the time. It is constantly being re-examined and re-evaluated, otherwise how would we be able to keep historians occupied? We can't possibly allow people with their sort of minds to walk around with time on their hands."

"Be warned, reader. Once seen, something cannot be unseen and once read, something cannot be unread. What lies ahead can be the future of spirit but the future of spirit can also be what lies inside your head."

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"A loan is the scissors of friendship.A man's own tongue may cut his throat.The cage has no value without the bird."

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