"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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"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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"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."

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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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"Assuming that man has a distinct spiritual nature, a soul, why should it be thought unnatural that under appropriate conditions of maladjustment, his soul might die before his body does; or that his soul might die without his knowing it?"

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"The positive testimony of history is that the State invariably had its origin in conquest and confiscation. No primitive State known to history originated in any other manner."

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"Diligent as one must be in learning, one must be as diligent in forgetting; otherwise the process is one of pedantry, not culture."

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"The question of who is right and who is wrong has seemed to me always too small to be worth a moment's thought, while the question of what is right and what is wrong has seemed all-important."

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"Useless knowledge can be made directly contributory to a force of sound and disinterested public opinion."

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"It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of its own."

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"Organized Christianity has always represented immortality as a sort of common heritage; but I never could see why spiritual life should not be conditioned on the same terms as all life, i. e., correspondence with environment."

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"Concerning culture as a process, one would say that it means learning a great many things and then forgetting them; and the forgetting is as necessary as the learning."

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"Learning has always been made much of, but forgetting has always been deprecated; therefore pedantry has pretty well established itself throughout the modern world at the expense of culture."

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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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