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Knowledge Quotes
"The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side."
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"The knowledge that there is a part of the psychic functions that are out of conscious reach, we did not need to wait for Freud to know this!"
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"The ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained."
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"The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty."
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"The hypothesis may be put forward, to be tested by the s subsequent investigation, that this development has been in large part a matter of the reciprocal interaction of new factual insights and knowledge on the one hand with changes in the theoretical system on the other."
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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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"Knowing what to say is sense, when to say it is intelligence, how to say it is wisdom, why and how to say it is enlightenment."
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"There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words."
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"The courage of a soldier is heightened by his knowledge of his profession."
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"His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof."
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"More students have a better knowledge of pop culture than of the Constitution."
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"Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage."
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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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"We don't focus as much in schools on educational knowledge which requires thinking and application, as we do on acquiring facts."
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"Since knowledge is but sorrow's spy, It is not safe to know."
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"And it has become a kind of a truism in the study of creativity that you can't be creating anything with less than 10 years of technical knowledge immersion in a particular field."
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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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"We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide."
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"It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge."
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"One glance at (a book) and you hear the voice of another person - perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millenia, the author is speaking, clearly and silently, inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another. Books break the shackles of time."
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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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"Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge."
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"It is harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge."
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"I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief."
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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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"The channels of intuitive knowledge are opened according to the intensity of individual need."
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"If we would have new knowledge, we must get a whole world of new questions."
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"Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again."
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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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"You should have a fund of knowledge of something and out of that you make up you mind."
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