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Knowledge Quotes
"A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one."
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"Nothing that is mentally our own can ever be lost."
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"Philosophical knowledge is knowledge which reason gains from concepts mathematical knowledge is knowledge which reason gains from the construction of concepts."
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"We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases."
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"An intelligent, informed mind is more powerful than a loaded gun."
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"He who would know the world must first manufacture it."
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"How little we know of what there is to know. I wish that I were going to live a long time instead of going to die today because I have learned much about life in these four days; more, I think than in all other time. I'd like to be an old man to really know. I wonder if you keep on learning or if there is only a certain amount each man can understand. I thought I knew so many things that I know nothing of. I wish there was more time."
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"When you come to any passage you don't understand, read it again: if you still don't understand it, read it again: if you fail, even after three readings, very likely your brain is getting a little tired. In that case, put the book away, and take to other occupations, and next day, when you come to it fresh, you will very likely find that it is quite easy."
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"No one is is sure of his premise as the man who knows too little."
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"I only know that I know nothing."
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"Let us account for all we see by the facts we know. If there are things for which we cannot account, let us wait for light. To account for anything by supernatural agencies is, in fact to say that we do not know. Theology is not what we know about God, but what we do not know about Nature."
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"Ready comprehension is often a knee-jerk response and the most dangerous form of understanding. It blinks an opaque screen over your ability to learn. Be warned. Understand nothing. All comprehension is temporary."
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"I have lived a thousand lives and I've loved a thousand loves. I've walked on distant worlds and seen the end of time. Because I read."
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"Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace."
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"There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge."
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"Wise people understand the need to consult experts, only fools are confident they know everything."
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"Your brain processes a thought while your mind creates and cultivates not only your thoughts, but also the knowledge and experiences you gain."
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"Certain kinds of information are like smoke: they work their way into people's eyes and minds whether sought out or not, and with no regard to personal preference."
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"Superior experience and knowledge will be made available to a man or woman in exact accordance with his worth, capacity and earning of it."
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"The only source of knowledge is experience."
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"The ruin of a man's teaching comes of his followers, such as having never touched the foundation he has laid, build upon it wood, hay, and stubble, fit only to be burnt. Therefore, if only to avoid his worst foes, his admirers, a man should avoid system. The more correct a system the worse will it be misunderstood; its professed admirers will take both its errors and their misconceptions of its truths, and hold them forth as its essence."
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"Each book is a mind alive, a life revealed, a world awaiting exploration, but living people are all those things, as well-and more, because their stories haven't yet been completely told."
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"Abstraction can provide stumbling blocks for people of strange intelligence."
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"While ritual, emotion and reasoning are all significant aspects of human nature, the most nearly unique human characteristic is the ability to associate abstractly and to reason. Curiosity and the urge to solve problems are the emotional hallmarks of our species; and the most characteristically human activities are mathematics, science, technology, music and the arts--a somewhat broader range of subjects than is usually included under the "humanities." Indeed, in its common usage this very word seems to reflect a peculiar narrowness of vision about what is human. Mathematics is as much a "humanity" as poetry."
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"No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge."
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"University can teach you skill and give you opportunity, but it can't teach you sense, nor give you understanding. Sense and understanding are produced within one's soul."
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"For all knowledge and wonder (which is the seed of knowledge) is an impression of pleasure in itself."
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"If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him."
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"The range of human knowledge today is so great that we're all specialists and the distance between specializations has become so great that anyone who seeks to wander freely between them almost has to forego closeness with the people around him."
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"Originally, the atoms of carbon from which we're made were floating in the air, part of a carbon dioxide molecule. The only way to recruit these carbon atoms for the molecules necessary to support life-the carbohydrates, amino acids, proteins, and lipids-is by means of photosynthesis. Using sunlight as a catalyst the green cells of plants combine carbon atoms taken from the air with water and elements drawn from the soil to form the simple organic compounds that stand at the base of every food chain. It is more than a figure of speech to say that plants create life out of thin air."
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"New learning never hurt anybody."
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