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Knowledge Quotes
"And it has become a kind of a truism in the study of creativity that you can't be creating anything with less than 10 years of technical knowledge immersion in a particular field."
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"Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one."
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"On our plane knowledge and ignorance are the immemorial adversaries."
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"Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative."
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"The increased global linkages promote economic growth in the world through two key mechanisms: the division of labor and the international spillovers of knowledge."
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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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"The mysteries I desired to learn of heaven and earth and all that is between could only be taught by experiencing you."
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"In fact there is only your own instinct? Not instinct, Hastings. Instinct is a bad word. It is my knowledge-my experience-that tells me that something about that letter is wrong."
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"Knowledge is soon changed, then lost in the mist, an echo half-heard."
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"We are all bits and pieces of history and literature and international law."
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"How can we understand the world and the universe when we haven't even understood ourselves?"
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"Men say they know many things;But lo! they have taken wings, -The arts and sciences,And a thousand appliances;The wind that blowsIs all that any body knows."
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"One glance at (a book) and you hear the voice of another person - perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millenia, the author is speaking, clearly and silently, inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another. Books break the shackles of time."
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"The future of the world, dependent as it is upon atomic energy, requires more understanding and knowledge about the atom."
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"I do think we know that a teacher who knows what he or she is doing, knows their subject matter, and knows how to impart knowledge to kids is a critical piece of closing the achievement gap."
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"Scientific knowledge is a kind of discourse."
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"The satirist is prevented by repulsion from gaining a better knowledge of the world he is attracted to, yet he is forced by attraction to concern himself with the world that repels him."
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"Everyone wants a hand in the outcome, a piece of the knowledge."
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"They taught us because they wanted to pass the knowledge on and educate young musicians. It was not because they had to teach because they failed as musicians. There is a huge difference in the reasons why someone is teaching and what they can offer and what they cannot offer."
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"I am conscious of my inability to grasp, in all its details and positive developments, any very large portion of human knowledge."
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"Cherish that which is within you, and shut off that which is without; for much knowledge is a curse."
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"Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield 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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"Every branch of human knowledge, if traced up to its source and final principles, vanishes into mystery."
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"If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking."
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"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."
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"In other words, knowledge of the external world begins with an immediate utilisation of things, whereas knowledge of self is stopped by this purely practical and utilitarian contact."
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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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"Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession - a property entirely our own."
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"We have today a fairly thorough knowledge of the early Greco-Roman period because our motivations are the same."
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"Nature is a language and every new fact one learns is a new word; but it is not a language taken to pieces and dead in the dictionary, but the language put together into a most significant and universal sense. I wish to learn this language--not that I may know a new grammar, but that I may read the great book which is written in that tongue."
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"Of all the inanimate objects, of all men's creations, books are the nearest to us for they contain our very thoughts, our ambitions, our indignations, our illusions, our fidelity to the truth, and our persistent leanings to error. But most of all they resemble us in their precious hold on life."
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"Human knowledge is dark and uncertain; philosophy is dark, astrology is dark, and geometry is dark."
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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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"How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room. There is no such thing as observation of the inner world, as there is of the outer world."
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