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Knowledge Quotes
"The will to do springs from the knowledge that we can do."
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"And I envy you. You have the one thing that matters. You have all your discoveries before you."
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"A complacent satisfaction with present knowledge is the chief bar to the pursuit of knowledge."
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"For remember that in general we don't use language according to strict rules-- it hasn't been taught to us by means of strict rules, either. We, in our discussions on the other hand, constantly compare language with a calculus preceding to exact rules."
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"It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin."
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"Everything about this is embarrassing' she said. 'D'you know how embarrassing it is to mention good and evil in a scientific laboratory? Have you any idea? One of the reasons I became a scientist was not to have to think about that kind of thing."
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"Of what a strange nature is knowledge! It clings to the mind when it has once seized on it like a lichen on the rock. I wished sometimes to shake off all thought and feeling, but I learned that there was but one means to overcome the sensation of pain, and that was death -- a state which I feared yet did not understand."
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"Who of us knows or can by possibility arrive at a knowledge of the laws that govern our property and lives?"
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"Poverty and lack of knowledge must be challenged."
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"Without a knowledge of mythology much of the elegant literature of our own language cannot be understood and appreciated."
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"Fullness of knowledge always means some understanding of the depths of our ignorance; and that is always conducive to humility and reverence."
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"Without books we should very likely be a still-primitive people living in the shadow of traditions that faded with years until only a blur remained, and different memories would remember the past in different ways. A parent or a teacher has only his lifetime; a good book can teach forever.Without books we should very likely be a still-primitive people living in the shadow of traditions that faded with years until only a blur remained, and different memories would remember the past in different ways. A parent or a teacher has only his lifetime; a good book can teach forever."
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"Why shouldn't your curiosity about the world be rewarded?"
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"The more we learn of outer space and inner space, of quasars and quarks, of Big Bangs and Little Blips, the more remote, abstract and intellectually inconsequential it all becomes."
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"The knowledge of the ancient languages is mainly a luxury."
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"Search not to find things too deeply hid; Nor try to know things whose knowledge is forbid."
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"Truth gains more even by the errors of one who, with due study and preparation, thinks for himself, than by the true opinions of those who only hold them because they do not suffer themselves to think."
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"Although your knowledge is weak and small, you need not be silent: since you cannot be judges be at least witnesses."
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"Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance."
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"What is research but a blind date with knowledge?"
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"What does mysticism really mean? It means the way to attain knowledge. It's close to philosophy, except in philosophy you go horizontally while in mysticism you go vertically."
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"I wonder if I will ever have the strength to hold onto something. Or if I will always be someone who destroys."
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"Nothing in this physical world moves from disorder to order without intelligence and energy being applied to it."
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"Nature is a language and every new fact one learns is a new word; but it is not a language taken to pieces and dead in the dictionary, but the language put together into a most significant and universal sense. I wish to learn this language--not that I may know a new grammar, but that I may read the great book which is written in that tongue."
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"I understand Medicine, Forensics... I can learn it in the frame of 1-2 years... No Problem in that."
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"Language is the light of the mind."
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"When we read, another person thinks for us: we merely repeat his mental process. In learning to write, the pupil goes over with his pen what the teacher has outlined in pencil: so in reading; the greater part of the work of thought is already done for us. This is why it relieves us to take up a book after being occupied with our own thoughts. And in reading, the mind is, in fact, only the playground of another's thoughts. So it comes about that if anyone spends almost the whole day in reading, and by way of relaxation devotes the intervals to some thoughtless pastime, he gradually loses the capacity for thinking; just as the man who always rides, at last forgets how to walk. This is the case with many learned persons: they have read themselves stupid."
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"Usually, I set one foot in a library and I feel my own internal volume lower. A library is a physical equivalent of a sigh. It's the silence, sure, but it's also the certainty of all those books, the way they stand side by side with their still, calm conviction. It's the reassurance of knowledge in the face of confusion."
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"Knowledge is a light that brightens the mind, not a burden."
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"The trend of all knowledge at the present is to specialize, but archaeology has in it all the qualities that call for the wide view of the human race, of its growth from the savage to the civilized, which is seen in all stages of social and religious development."
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"If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking."
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"Ah yes, the head is full of books. The hard part is to force them down through the bloodstream and out through the fingers."
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"I am not one to rely upon the expert procedure. It is the psychology I seek, not the fingerprint or the cigarette ash."
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"He snatched the book from me and replaced it hastily on its shelf, muttering that if one brick was removed the whole library was liable to collapse."
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"Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel."
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"There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."
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