"Exclusively oral cultures are unencumbered by dead knowledge, dead facts. Libraries, on the other hand, are full of them."

Knowledge, Facts, Libraries

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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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"Devote yourself to reading of Scriptures."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Knowledge, Devote, Reading, Scriptures, Wisdom

"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

Knowledge, Perspective, Truth, Observation, Philosophy

"Life is all about discovery."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Knowledge, Life, Discovery, Growth, Exploration

"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

Knowledge, Answers, Research, Discovery

"Dare to ask questions. This is the only way to find answers to your curiosity."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Knowledge, Dare, Ask, Questions, Curiosity

"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

Knowledge, SelfEducation, Growth, Learning, Empowerment

"All knowledge that Science has acquired so far, has been through the concentration of the powers of the mind."

Abhijit Naskar, Indian Author

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"What we need to know can only be experienced."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"In order to live man must believe in that for which he lives."

Man, Order

"First of all, my persuasion is what really breeds violence is political differences. But because religion serves as the soul of community, it gets drawn into the fracas and turns up the heat."

Religion, Soul, Community, First

"The modern period adds social ethics to religions agenda, for we now realize that social structures are not like laws of nature. They are human creations, so we are responsible for them."

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"In nature, the emphasis is in what is rather than what ought to be."

Nature,

"Exclusively oral cultures are unencumbered by dead knowledge, dead facts. Libraries, on the other hand, are full of them."

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"Poetry is a special use of language that opens onto the real. The business of the poet is truth telling, which is why in the Celtic tradition no one could be a teacher unless he or she was a poet."

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"It's often difficult for us to act compassionately, but sacred art eases the difficulty by ennobling us."

Art, Act, Difficulty

"I had assumed that Bush's seemingly inflexible policy to support Sharon was for political reasons of his getting elected. But as to whether he really believes his actions are going to hasten the day of the final conflict, I do not know."

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"The crisis that the world finds itself in as it swings on the hinge of a new millennium is located in something deeper than particular ways of organizing political systems and economies."

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"The most powerful moral influence is example."

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