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Knowledge Quotes
"The universal Mind contains all knowledge. It is the potential ultimate of all things. To it, all things are possible."
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"In rating ease of description as very important, we are essentially asserting a belief in quantitative knowledge - a belief that most of the key questions in our world sooner or later demand answers to 'by how much?' rather than merely to 'in which direction?'"
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"I am not a member of any organization listed by the Attorney General as subversive. In any instance where I lent my name in the past, it was certainly without knowledge that such an organization was subversive. I have always been essentially and foremost an American."
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"Successful continual learning means maintaining a balance and variety of success-oriented attributes, the most prominent being awareness, confidence, persistence, determination, courage, and focus. But curiosity, ingenuity, and creativity may be even more important as it is these traits that fuel the desire to continue to question and challenge the status quo."
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"Sometimes we fall into the negative so deeply that we do not realize our first instinctive reaction to everything is to think negatively or to 'look' for the bad in every situation. The phrase 'too good to be true' directly comes from this aspect of ourselves. To be cautious can be good in certain situations, but to dismiss every interaction or idea to the possibility of 'bad things happening' puts us in a place where the beautiful or the divine never gets a chance to fully blossom. Mind your thoughts carefully, as you are the only one who can allow happiness to thrive in your life."
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"If you have half a nothing - sell it for a double something, resell half at double-price, and buy another something and a half - how much nothing will you have two days from then? Like three. Because three is the short version of I, and I is involved in virtually anything, in some form, if you believe what the internet tells you."
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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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"Facts are like cows. If you look them in the face long enough, they generally run away."
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"May I suggest that you all read? And often. Believe me, it's nice to have something to talk about other than the weather and the Queen's health. Your mind is not a cage. It's a garden. And it requires cultivating."
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"There was a young man who said though, it seems that I know that I know, but what I would like to see is the I that knows me when I know that I know that I know."
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"Listen to any musical phrase or rhythm, and grasp it as a whole, and you thereupon have present in you the image, so to speak, of the divine knowledge of the temporal order."
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"The distinction has blurred between young adult and adult books. Some of the teen books have become more sophisticated."
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"When you see something, it can't be unseen. When you hear a sound, it can never be unheard. I know, deep down, that this evening I have learned something that can never be unlearned. And the part of my world that is altered will never be the same."
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"There's a difference between knowledge and technology. Knowledge don't fail us."
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"Ignorance rises in our community because people do not utlize their common knowledge to express their thoughts to others that can be considered fair and rational."
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"The real difference between a man's scientific judgments about himself and the judgment of others about him is he has added sources of knowledge."
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"He surprised me by his familiarity with details of movements and battles which I did not suppose had come to his knowledge. As he kept me talking for over half an hour, I flattered myself that what I had to say interested him."
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"Reading is merely a surrogate for thinking for yourself; it means letting someone else direct your thoughts. Many books, moreover, serve merely to show how many ways there are of being wrong, and how far astray you yourself would go if you followed their guidance. You should read only when your own thoughts dry up, which will of course happen frequently enough even to the best heads; but to banish your own thoughts so as to take up a book is a sin against the holy ghost; it is like deserting untrammeled nature to look at a herbarium or engravings of landscapes."
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"As a physicist, I can state that none of the 18 physicists who signed the Statement works in this field; nor to my knowledge has ever published a paper on this subject."
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"For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics."
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"God, the bitter misery that reading works into this world! Everybody knows that - everbody who IS everybody. All the best minds have been off reading for years. Look at the swing La Rouchefoucauld took at it. He said that if nobody had ever learned to read, very few people would be in love. Good for you, La Rouchefoucauld; nice going, boy. I wish I'd never learned to read."
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"I think therefore I am not sure."
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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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"The introduction of many minds into many fields of learning along a broad spectrum keeps alive questions about the accessibility, if not the unity, of knowledge."
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"It means that through knowledge have come responsibility and hope, and through both, action."
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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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"When you know the inside stories, no matter how good looks the cover, you just cannot appreciate it."
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"Any fact becomes important when it's connected to another."
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"A library is such a potent symbol of a town's values: each one closed down might as well be six thousand stickers plastered over every available surface, reading "WE CHOSE TO BECOME MORE STUPID AND DULL."
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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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"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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"For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong."
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"You don't need to see the answer. You just need to ask the questions and believe the answer exists."
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"Curiosity is more important than knowledge."
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"Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot."
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"I would say that all our sciences are the material that has to be mythologized. A mythology gives spiritual import - what one might call rather the psychological, inward import, of the world of nature round about us, as understood today. There's no real conflict between science and religion ... What is in conflict is the science of 2000 BC ... and the science of the 20th century AD."
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"I seldom read anything that is not of a factual nature because I want to invest my time wisely in the things that will improve my life. Don't misunderstand; there is nothing wrong with reading purely for the joy of it. Novels have their place, but biographies of famous men and women contain information that can change lives."
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"The satirist is prevented by repulsion from gaining a better knowledge of the world he is attracted to, yet he is forced by attraction to concern himself with the world that repels him."
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"Everyone, young and old, must have access to the knowledge and skills to participate in the evolving economy."
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