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Knowledge Quotes
"Every branch of human knowledge, if traced up to its source and final principles, vanishes into mystery."
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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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"The true meaning of life lies in learning. When you learn, you understand the things better, when you understand the things better, it reflects in your actions, and when your actions are right, according to the process of life, you are bound to receive the desired result."
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"Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty."
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"The way we can replenish our memories is to look back at textual information that we have either written or read before. If that method is accomplished, we can comprehend and complete tasks that require us to use more critical thinking."
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"When our theories continually move us into more and more complicated explanations then, it is certain that we are moving in the wrong direction."
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"Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous."
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"I could doubt the value of my books as much as many do, except that, as a researcher and very curious person, I do read a lot too, and can clearly see the difference in value between what I do and what others do. I have no doubt that my books have much more value than nearly all others out there, and it wouldn't make sense for me to be an author if I couldn't see that, or if I saw the opposite, as I believe that, if we're not upgrading mankind, we're just making it lost and vulnerable to the claws of ignorance."
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"No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge."
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"I think that a failure of statistical thinking is the major intellectual shortcoming of our universities, journalism and intellectual culture."
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"I read for the 'ah-ha's,' the information that makes a light bulb go off in my mind. I want to put information in my mind that is going to be the most beneficial to me, my family and my fellow man - financially, morally, spiritually, and emotionally."
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"To drown in treacle is just as unpleasant as to drown in mud.People today are in danger of drowning in information; but because they have been taught information is useful, they are more willing to drown than they need be.If they could handle information, they would not have to drown at all.The lightning said to the oak tree: 'Stand aside, or take what is coming to you!"
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"A primary object should be the education of our youth in the science of government. In a republic, what species of knowledge can be equally important? And what duty more pressing than communicating it to those who are to be the future guardians of the liberties of the country?"
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"We have no firm hold on any knowledge or philosophy that can lift us out of our difficulties."
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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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"Maybe we can eventually make language a complete impediment to understanding."
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"The auditory perception is not sufficient for our knowledge of the world; it does not have vastness."
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"In a world in which the total of human knowledge is doubling about every ten years, our security can rest only on our ability to learn."
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"Exclusively oral cultures are unencumbered by dead knowledge, dead facts. Libraries, on the other hand, are full of them."
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"Knowing what to say is sense, when to say it is intelligence, how to say it is wisdom, why and how to say it is enlightenment."
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"The NSA may, or may not have rejected the invisible secret operative application form I never even bothered to have sent over to them. I'll never know..."
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"In an age when other fantastically speedy, widespread media are triumphing, and running the risk of flattening all communication onto a single homogeneous surface, the function of literature is communication between things that are different simply because they are different, not blunting but even sharpening the differences between them, following the true bent of written language."
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"A person may learn things all their life, but never gain knowledge of truth."
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"The burden of knowledge is lighter than the joy of ignorance."
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"Journalism classes teach us that one must extract oneself from the story in order to report without bias, but often we need to be in the story in order to understand, to connect, to help the audience identify or else it has no heart; it could be a robot telling the story, for all anyone cares."
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"Critical thinking is a necessary and vital skill."
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"There is hardly a limit to the knowledge and sympathy a man may have in respect of the finest things, and yet be a fool. Sympathy is not harmony. A man may be a poet even, and speak with the tongue of an angel, and yet be a very bad fool."
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"I learn from everything I do, right and wrong. I think it helps me grow as a writer and a person."
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"The intercourse between the Mediterranean and the North or between the Atlantic and Central Europe was never purely economic or political; it also meant the exchange of knowledge and ideas and the influence of social institutions and artistic and literary forms."
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"Sometimes, all someone needs is for someone to believe in them. Be that person. Whether it is for yourself or for someone else. Sometimes, that is all the encouragement we need to brave our own courage. The one person you must believe in is yourself. Believe in your potential!"
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"But now with the living conditions deteriorating, and with the sure knowledge that we are slated for destruction, we have been transformed into an implacable army of liberation."
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"The deductive method is the mode of using knowledge, and the inductive method the mode of acquiring it."
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"Language disguises the thought; so that from the external form of the clothes one cannot infer the form of the thought they clothe, because the external form of the clothes is constructed with quite another object than to let the form of the body be recognized."
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