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Knowledge Quotes
"Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge."
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"If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it."
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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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"A man's grammar, like Caesar's wife, should not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity."
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"Most of my technical knowledge comes from having worked in the industrial video industry."
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"Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative."
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"Most of our assumptions have outlived their uselessness."
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"Sometimes a cigar is only a cigar."
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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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"Knowledge is a weapon. I intend to be formidably armed."
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"Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn't -it's human."
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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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"The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side."
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"But the egoist has no ideals, for the knowledge that his ideals are only his ideals, frees him from their domination. He acts for his own interest, not for the interest of ideals."
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"If one must fight or create, it is necessary that this be preceded by the broadest possible knowledge."
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"The true knowledge is disciplined and tested knowledge,-not the first thought that comes, so the true passion is disciplined and tested passion,-not the first passion that comes. The first that come are the vain, the false, the treacherous; if you yield to them they will lead you wildly and far, in vain pursuit, in hollow enthusiasm, till you have no true purpose and no true passion left. Not that any feeling possible to humanity is in itself wrong, but only wrong when undisciplined."
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"A library in the middle of a community is a cross between an emergency exit, a life raft and a festival. They are cathedrals of the mind; hospitals of the soul; theme parks of the imagination."
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"We explore our environment, more than we are compelled to utter poetry, when we're toddlers. We start doing that later. Before that happens, every child is a scientist."
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"The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head."
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"If we don't empower ourselves with knowledge, then we're gonna be led down a garden path."
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"The way I figure, no man has the right to be ignorant. In a country like this, ignorance is a crime. If a man is going to vote, if he's going to take part in his country and its government, then it's up to him to understand."
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"But because many endeavor to get knowledge rather than to live well, they are often deceived and reap little or no benefit from their labor."
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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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"To be a scholar study math, to be a smart study magic."
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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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"Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other."
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"Good tests kill flawed theories; we remain alive to guess again."
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"The goal of NIH research is to acquire new knowledge to help prevent, detect, diagnose, and treat disease and disability, from the rarest genetic disorder to the common cold."
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"I've spent quality time in the aerospace community, with my service on two presidential commissions, but at heart, I'm an academic. Being an academic means I don't wield power over person, place or thing. I don't command armies; I don't lead labor unions. All I have is the power of thought."
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"Knowledge rooted in experience shapes what we value and as a consequence how we know what we know as well as how we use what we know."
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"Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours."
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"I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books."
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"How can we understand the world and the universe when we haven't even understood ourselves?"
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"Why covet a knowledge of new facts? Day and night, house and garden, a few books, a few actions, serve us as well as would all trades and all spectacles. We are far from having exhausted the significance of the few symbols we use. We can come to use them yet with a terrible simplicity."
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"A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance."
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