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Knowledge Quotes
"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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"Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; an argument an exchange of ignorance."
44
"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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"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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"All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason."
42
"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."
42
"You have to know the past to understand the present."
42
"Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge."
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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."
41
"The remarkable position in which we find ourselves is that we don't actually know what we actually know."
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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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"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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"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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"Knowledge is soon changed, then lost in the mist, an echo half-heard."
40
"Knowledge is not skill. Knowledge plus ten thousand times is skill."
39
"On our plane knowledge and ignorance are the immemorial adversaries."
39
"Love is ever the beginning of Knowledge as fire is of light."
39
"We live in an information and knowledge-based economy."
39
"The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder."
38
"Cherish that which is within you, and shut off that which is without; for much knowledge is a curse."
38
"You can't learn in school what the world is going to do next year."
38
"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."
38
"Bobby Fischer has an enormous knowledge of chess and his familiarity with the chess literature of the USSR is immense."
38
"Like a lamp, dispelling the darkness of ignorance."
38
"Our objective is to achieve, by the understanding of the Origin, the Knowledge which comes through experience."
38
"To know how to dissimulate is the knowledge of kings."
37
"Contention is inseparable from creating knowledge. It is not contention we should try to avoid, but discourses that attempt to suppress contention."
36
"To remove this obstacle I repeat or refer to such knowledge as has come under my notice, my own previously expressed views, and also describe and exhibit my last experiments and explain their novelty and utility."
36
"So long as these kinds of inequalities persist, all of us who are given expensive educations have to live with the knowledge that our victories are contaminated because the game has been rigged to our advantage."
36
"We do not need to be shoemakers to know if our shoes fit, and just as little have we any need to be professionals to acquire knowledge of matters of universal interest."
36
"Imagine the people who believe such things and who are not ashamed to ignore, totally, all the patient findings of thinking minds through all the centuries since the Bible was written. And it is these ignorant people, the most uneducated, the most unimaginative, the most unthinking among us, who would make themselves the guides and leaders of us all; who would force their feeble and childish beliefs on us; who would invade our schools and libraries and homes. I personally resent it bitterly."
36
"The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty."
36
"And whenever any one informs us that he has found a man who knows all the arts, and all things else that anybody knows, and every single thing with a higher degree of accuracy than any other man "whoever tells us this, I think that we can only imagine him to be a simple creature who is likely to have been deceived by some wizard or actor whom he met, and whom he thought all-knowing, because he himself was unable to analyze the nature of knowledge and ignorance and imitation."
36
"We can't have full knowledge all at once. We must start by believing; then afterwards we may be led on to master the evidence for ourselves."
36
"My very small part in WATCHMEN is that, every now and then, Alan would phone me: ''Neil, you're an educated man. Where does it say...''He would need a quote from the Bible, or an essay about owls. I was his occasional research assistant."
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