"Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours."

Knowledge, Mind, Reading, Thinking

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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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"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."

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."

T. S. Eliot, American Poet

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

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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

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."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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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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"I know that I do not know, and uncertainty, certainly, is the cruelest of words."

Auliq Ice, Ugandan Economist

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"One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant."

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"The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good."

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"Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time."

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"Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip."

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"The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom."

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"The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its author; salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. It is all pure."

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"All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions."

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"As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears."

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"There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse."

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"I attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed to ask for information, and to my rule of conversing with all descriptions of men on those topics that form their own peculiar professions and pursuits."

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