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Knowledge Quotes
"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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"The courage of a soldier is heightened by his knowledge of his profession."
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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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"When knowledge is limited - it leads to folly... When knowledge exceeds a certain limit, it leads to exploitation."
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"Science is the captain, and practice the soldiers."
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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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"If I want to understand an individual human being, I must lay aside all scientific knowledge of the average man and discard all theories in order to adopt a completely new and unprejudiced attitude. I can only approach the task of understanding with a free and open mind, whereas knowledge of man, or insight into human character, presupposes all sorts of knowledge about mankind in general."
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"Books are precious things, but more than that, they are the strong backbone of civilization. They are the thread upon which it all hangs, and they can save us when all else is lost."
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"At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes abridged."
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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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"It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance."
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"Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds."
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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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"Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one."
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"We must develop knowledge optimization initiatives to leverage our key learnings."
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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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"The book is like the spoon, scissors, the hammer, the wheel. once invented, it cannot be improved."
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"We are all bits and pieces of history and literature and international law."
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"You can acquire a lot of knowledge without ever going to school."
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"An excessive knowledge of Marxism is a sign of a misspent youth."
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"That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes."
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"Our heads are filled with 'knowledge', a knowledge that in some areas pre-empts our seeing anything at all."
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"To see from all the "view points is called 'Gnan' [True Knowledge]."
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"It is becoming clear that the old platitudes can no longer be maintained, and that if we wish to improve our morals we must first improve our 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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"Give me a book, she said. "A book of sermons, anything."What do you want a book for?"I want words. I've got to have more words. I was kept stupid on purpose."
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"Knowledge is not discovery, but recognition."
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"A great many things which in times of lesser knowledge we imagined to be superstitious or useless, prove today on examination to have been of immense value to mankind."
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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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"There is a general knowledge that I am multi-dimensional, that when you are creative you do a lot of things."
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