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Knowledge Quotes
"Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge."
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"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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"We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide."
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"Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement."
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"The apple cannot be stuck back on the Tree of Knowledge; once we begin to see, we are doomed and challenged to seek the strength to see more, not less."
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"I am reading six books at once, the only way of reading; since, as you will agree, one book is only a single unaccompanied note, and to get the full sound, one needs ten others at the same time."
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"Poetic knowledge is born in the great silence of scientific knowledge."
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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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"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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"I did not know that mankind were suffering for want of gold. I have seen a little of it. I know that it is very malleable, but not so malleable as wit. A grain of gold will gild a great surface, but not so much as a grain of wisdom."
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"The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder."
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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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"I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief."
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"You can't learn in school what the world is going to do next year."
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"The role of the teacher is to create the conditions for invention rather than provide ready-made knowledge."
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"The courage of a soldier is heightened by his knowledge of his profession."
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"Good tests kill flawed theories; we remain alive to guess again."
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"The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty."
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"Ignorance is hardly unusual, Miss Davar. The longer I live, the more I come to realize that it is the natural state of the human mind. There are many who will strive to defend its sanctity and then expect you to be impressed with their efforts."
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"Knowledge is a weapon. I intend to be formidably armed."
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"Knowledge is not skill. Knowledge plus ten thousand times is skill."
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"Even scientific knowledge, if there is anything to it, is not a random observation of random objects; for the critical objectivity of significant knowledge is attained as a practice only philosophically in inner action."
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"Seldom ever was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment."
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"Since knowledge is but sorrow's spy, It is not safe to know."
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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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"The intellectual takes as a starting point his self and relates the world to his own sensibilities; the scientist accepts an existing field of knowledge and seeks to map out the unexplored terrain."
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"An excessive knowledge of Marxism is a sign of a misspent youth."
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"What light is to the outer physical world intellect is to the inner world of consciousness. For intellect is related to the will, and thus also to the organism which is nothing other than will regarded objectively, in the approximate same way as light is to a combustible body and the oxygen in combination with which it ignites."
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"Any foolish boy can stamp on a beetle, but all the professors in the world cannot make a beetle."
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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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"Einstein's results again turned the tables and now very few philosophers or scientists still think that scientific knowledge is, or can be, proven knowledge."
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"How often people speak of art and science as though they were two entirely different things, with no interconnection. An artist is emotional, they think, and uses only his intuition; he sees all at once and has no need of reason. A scientist is cold, they think, and uses only his reason; he argues carefully step by step, and needs no imagination. That is all wrong. The true artist is quite rational as well as imaginative and knows what he is doing; if he does not, his art suffers. The true scientist is quite imaginative as well as rational, and sometimes leaps to solutions where reason can follow only slowly; if he does not, his science suffers."
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"To deal with the stark reality of having hit or hurt a woman or child, to deal with the initial responsibility you have not to do that and the knowledge you did do it, can be incredibly hard."
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"That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes."
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"It is easy to understand that in the dreary middle ages the Aristotelian logic would be very acceptable to the controversial spirit of the schoolmen, which, in the absence of all real knowledge, spent its energy upon mere formulas and words, and that it would be eagerly adopted even in its mutilated Arabian form, and presently established as the centre of all knowledge."
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"The remarkable position in which we find ourselves is that we don't actually know what we actually know."
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"We live in an information and knowledge-based economy."
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