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Knowledge Quotes
"For it would seem - her case proved it - that we write, not with the fingers, but with the whole person. The nerve which controls the pen winds itself about every fibre of our being, threads the heart, pierces the liver."
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"Wide reading is important. You don't have to like it, but it's important to grapple with things you don't understand. I've been spending the last six months getting up an hour early to try to understand economics because I need to. I don't want to be one of these bewildered schmucks. The things that you understand will inform your writing. The bigger your mind, the better your work is going to be. You're not born with a big mind; you have to build it. If I don't read for an hour a day, I get ill."
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"Historical novels are, without question, the best way of teaching history, for they offer the human stories behind the events and leave the reader with a desire to know more."
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"The true color of intelligence is not in knowledge but in the wisdom of actions."
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"Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance."
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"To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge."
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"God has been pushed aside by the non-Self complex. Vibrations have arisen from vibrations. 'We' now give you the Knowledge of how to stop the vibrations."
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"My parents, and librarians along the way, taught me about the space between words; about the margins, where so many juicy moments of life and spirit and friendship could be found. In a library, you could find miracles and truth and you might find something that would make you laugh so hard that you get shushed, in the friendliest way."
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"You can't train kids in a world where adults have no concept of what science literacy is. The adults are gonna squash the creativity that would manifest itself, because they're clueless about what it and why it matters. But science can always benefit from the more brains there are that are thinking about it - but that's true for any field."
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"Fear tends to come from ignorance. Once I knew what the problem was, it was just a problem, nothing to fear."
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"If we understand how the brain works, we can understand how to work it."
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"There is a secret a person with great knowledge discovers along the path to truth. That is, the more doors you open to the mysteries, the smaller you feel. And because you begin to feel smaller and smaller until your ego disappears, the more humble you become. Therefore, any man who behaves arrogantly with what little he knows, or claims to know all, only reveals to all that he really knows nothing. Real greatness does not reside inside those who feel large. The truly wise are meek."
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"Now that physics is proving the intelligence of the universe what are we to do about the stupidity of mankind? I include myself. I know that the earth is not flat but my feet are. I know that space is curved but my brain has been condoned by habit to grow in a straight line. What I call light is my own blend of darkness. What I call a view is my hand-painted trompe-l'oeil. I run after knowledge like a ferret down a ferret hole. My limitations, I call the boundaries of what can be known. I interpret the world by confusing other people's psychology with my own."
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"We should have known much more than our ancestors.But if we learn less, we're much more stupid than them."
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"What's exciting is the actual process of broadening yourself, of knowing there's now a little extra facet of the universe you know about and can think about and can understand. It seems to me that when it's time to die, there would be a certain pleasure in thinking that you had utilized your life well, learned as much as you could, gathered in as much as possible of the universe, and enjoyed it. There's only this one universe and only this one lifetime to try to grasp it. And while it is inconceivable that anyone can grasp more than a tiny portion of it, at least you can do that much. What a tragedy just to pass through and get nothing out of it."
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"There is only a perspective seeing, only a perspective "knowing"; and the more affects we allow to speak about one thing, the more eyes, different eyes, we can use to observe one thing, the more complete will our "concept" of this thing, our "objectivity," be."
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"Most people, whatever their opinions and protestations, do not want to learn."
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"People are always trying to understand.There is only one way to do that.It is to discover < + i + >why< + i + > you want to understand."
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"Learn about hornets from those who have been stung by them."
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"Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities."
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"In mysticism, knowledge cannot be separated from a certain way of life which becomes its living manifestation. To acquire mystical knowledge means to undergo a transformation; one could even say that the knowledge is the transformation. Scientific knowledge, on the other hand, can often stay abstract and theoretical. Thus most of today's physicists do not seem to realize the philosophical, cultural and spiritual implications of their theories."
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"In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, but they are imprisoned by an enchanter in these paper and leathern boxes; and though they know us, and have been waiting two, ten, or twenty centuries for us,-some of them,-and are eager to give us a sign and unbosom themselves, it is the law of their limbo that they must not speak until spoken to; and as the enchanter has dressed them, like battalions of infantry, in coat and jacket of one cut, by the thousand and ten thousand, your chance of hitting on the right one is to be computed by the arithmetical rule of Permutation and Combination,-not a choice out of three caskets, but out of half a million caskets, all alike."
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"The most difficult door to open is the entrance to an ignorant mind."
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"You can't give what you don't have. To write, you must read. To write well, read well."
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"One great book can change the perspective and understanding of a whole nation."
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"Because you're always learning, the chief lesson remains: you still know nothing."
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"Literature is a power to be possessed not a body of objects to be studied."
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"There are a good many books, are there not, my boy? said Mr. Brownlow, observing the curiosity with which Oliver surveyed the shelves that reached from the floor to the ceiling."A great number, sir, replied Oliver; "I never saw so many."You shall read them if you behave well, said the old gentleman kindly; "and you will like that, better than looking at the outsides, - that is, in some cases, because there are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts."
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"Knowledge can be acquired by education, reading, communicating and observing, but also simply by living."
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"Do you understand? I don't want you to do a thing if you don't understand it."
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"A sixth sense is a miraculous thing, which in itself suggests a supernatural order. The human intellect, however, for all its power and triumphs, is largely formed by this world and is therefore corruptible."
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"Learning is the source of growth and we become stagnant without it."
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