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Knowledge Quotes
"Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you."
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"That free will was demonstrated in the placing of temptation before man with the command not to eat of the fruit of the tree which would give him a knowledge of good and evil, with the disturbing moral conflict to which that awareness would give rise."
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"The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty."
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"No magic Rune is stranger than a Book. All that Mankind has done, thought, gained or been: it is lyingas in magic preservation in the pages of Books. They are the chosen possession of men."
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"If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability."
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"I couldn't help thinking that if I, by pure chance, had found a whole universe in a single unknown book, buried in that endless necropolis, tens of thousands more would remain unexplored, forgotten forever."
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"The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others."
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"You're like candy. People lick your knowledge to become wise, lick your words from your powerful mouth and say it even better than you. Lick each step you make and stay on a good track, and once you're dead, the lickers scavenge for another intellectual candy."
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"It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment."
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"In the Atlantean period there were many energies being used and information and knowledge being used which were, for particular reasons of safety, withdrawn, shall we say, to prevent complete catastrophe, to prevent total destruction of your planet."
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"Inductive reason, which alone makes man master of his environment, is an achievement; and when once born it must be reinforced by inhibiting the growth of other modes of knowledge."
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"The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable."
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"Bobby Fischer has an enormous knowledge of chess and his familiarity with the chess literature of the USSR is immense."
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"To know how to dissimulate is the knowledge of kings."
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"Knowledge is not skill. Knowledge plus ten thousand times is skill."
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"The view is often defended that sciences should be built up on clear and sharply defined basal concepts. In actual fact no science, not even the most exact, begins with such definitions. The true beginning of scientific activity consists rather in describing phenomena and then in proceeding to group, classify and correlate them."
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"Love is ever the beginning of Knowledge as fire is of light."
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"We live in an information and knowledge-based economy."
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"Knowledge is soon changed, then lost in the mist, an echo half-heard."
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"To see from all the "view points is called 'Gnan' [True Knowledge]."
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"The courage of a soldier is heightened by his knowledge of his profession."
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"Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn't -it's human."
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"When knowledge is limited - it leads to folly... When knowledge exceeds a certain limit, it leads to exploitation."
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"One of the greatest satisfactions one can ever have, comes from the knowledge that he can do some one thing superlatively well."
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"Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one."
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"Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; an argument an exchange of ignorance."
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"That the state of knowledge in any country will exert a directive influence on the general system of instruction adopted in it, is a principle too obvious to require investigation."
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"They taught us because they wanted to pass the knowledge on and educate young musicians. It was not because they had to teach because they failed as musicians. There is a huge difference in the reasons why someone is teaching and what they can offer and what they cannot offer."
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"Since knowledge is but sorrow's spy, It is not safe to know."
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"You have to know the past to understand the present."
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"Like a lamp, dispelling the darkness of ignorance."
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"You can acquire a lot of knowledge without ever going to school."
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"That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes."
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"Our objective is to achieve, by the understanding of the Origin, the Knowledge which comes through experience."
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"The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder."
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"Another hero was Tom Swift, in the books. What he stood for, the freedom, the scientific knowledge and being and engineer gave him the ability to invent solutions to problems. He's always been a hero to me. I buy old Tom Swift books now and read them to my own children."
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