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If then a practical end must be assigned to a University course, I say it is that of training good m...

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Many things the gods achieve beyond our judgement,'" said the sorrowful girl. "'What we thought is n...

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One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.

You have a lot to learn, young man. Philosophy. Theology. Literature. Poetry. Drama. History. Archeo...

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When I was your age, art was a lonely thing: no galleries, no collecting, no critics, no money. We d...

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Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge it is thinking that makes what we read o...

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Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.

It is therefore worthwhile, to search out the bounds between opinion and knowledge; and examine by w...

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John LockeAn Essay Concerning Human Understanding

The only defense against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.

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John LockeSome Thoughts Concerning Education

Shall that be shut to man, which to the beast Is open? or will God incense his ire For such a petty ...

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People, I guess, generally come to see me do stand-up with a working knowledge of my broad sense of ...

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Without a spiritual wakefulness to divine purposes and connections in all things, we will not know t...

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John Piper (artist)The Pleasures of God: Meditations on God's Delight in Being God

In all of knowable reality, God is unique. He is knowable not like the multiplication table or the t...

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John Piper (artist)The Pleasures of God: Meditations on God's Delight in Being God

Without a spiritual wakefulness to divine purposes and connections in all things, we will not know t...

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John Piper (artist)The Pleasures of God: Meditations on God's Delight in Being God

In all of knowable reality, God is unique. He is knowable not like the multiplication table or the t...

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John Piper (artist)The Pleasures of God: Meditations on God's Delight in Being God

Without a spiritual wakefulness to divine purposes and connections in all things, we will not know t...

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John Piper (theologian)The Pleasures of God: Meditations on God's Delight in Being God

In all of knowable reality, God is unique. He is knowable not like the multiplication table or the t...

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John Piper (theologian)The Pleasures of God: Meditations on God's Delight in Being God

Without a spiritual wakefulness to divine purposes and connections in all things, we will not know t...

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John Piper (theologian)The Pleasures of God: Meditations on God's Delight in Being God

In all of knowable reality, God is unique. He is knowable not like the multiplication table or the t...

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John Piper (theologian)The Pleasures of God: Meditations on God's Delight in Being God

The widespread success of science is too significantan issue to be treated as if it were a happy acc...

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John PolkinghorneQuantum Physics and Theology: An Unexpected Kinship

To furnish the means of acquiring knowledge is ... the greatest benefit that can be conferred upon m...

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To be content in utter darkness and ignorance is indeed unmanly, and therefore we think that to love...

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When a man is wrapped up in himself he makes a pretty small package.

the true knowledge is disciplined and tested knowledge,—not the first thought that comes, so the tru...

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To be taught to read—what is the use of that, if you know not whether what you read is false or true...

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John RuskinThe Works of John Ruskin: Library Edition. 39 vols.

It was strange to Old Robert that he, who knew so much more than his neighbors, who had pondered so ...

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The weight of knowledge is too great for one mind to absorb.

It's one of the great fallacies, it seems to me," said Lee, "that time gives much of anything but ye...

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Foresight of phenomenon and power over them depend on knowledge of their sequences, and not upon any...

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John Stuart MillAuguste Comte And Positivism

Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.

He had come to that moment in his age when there occurred to him, with increasing intensity, a quest...

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Hence the great irony: Hayek, one of the greatest champions of individual liberty and economic freed...

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Jonah GoldbergThe Tyranny of Clichés: How Liberals Cheat in the War of Ideas

The benefit of such horizontal interactions - people sharing knowledge across fields - is that it en...

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Jonah LehrerImagine: How Creativity Works

Parents are always more knowledgeable than their children, and children are always smarter than thei...

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Jonathan Safran FoerExtremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Sam enjoyed knowledge. The accumulation and distribution of facts gave him a feeling of control, of ...

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Upon the whole, Chymistry is as yet but an opening science, closely connected with the useful and or...

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Faith moves mountains, but only knowledge moves them to the right place...

No man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self-knowledge...

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They trespassed upon my thoughts. They were intruders whose knowledge of life was to me an irritatin...

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It is my belief no man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow o...

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The exaltation and happiness of any community, goes hand in hand with the knowledge possessed by the...

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It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.

It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself but the most inconvenient one too.

It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself but the most inconvenient too.

The only thing that interests the physicist is finding out on what assumptions a framework of things...

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So it happens that we must ask ourselves, with regard to truth, not for a new criterion for it, whic...

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José Ortega y GassetLa Idea De Principio En Leibniz Y La Evolución De La Teoría Deductiva

Still, for long the love of science triumphed over all other feelings. He became an artist deeply im...

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Science, my boy, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because t...

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As I see it the world is undoubtedly in need of a new religion, and that religion must be founded on...

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Learning from the experiences of our ancestors, let us together create knowledge for all that benefi...

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Our knowledge can only be finite while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.

I am an atheist and that's it. I believe there's nothing we can know except that we should be kind t...

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I want by understanding myself to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becomin...

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Knowledge is marvelous, but wisdom is even better.

It’s ignorant to think you know everything about a person. There’s many different sides to everybody...

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One of the dumbest things you were ever taught was to write what you know. Because what you know is ...

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One of the dumbest things you were ever taught was to write what you know. Because what you know is ...

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The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn...

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We dream, we wake on a cold hillside, we pursue the dream again. In the beginning was the dream, and...

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It's funny. No matter how hard you try, you can't close your heart forever. And the minute you open ...

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More than any other product of human scientific culture scientific knowledge is the collective prope...

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Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every societ...

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No thief, however skillful, can rob one of knowledge, and that is why knowledge is the best and safe...

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To 'know Thyself' is considered quite an accomplishment.

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L. Frank BaumThe Marvelous Land of Oz

Stress the right of the individual to select only what he desires to know, to use any knowledge as h...

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The night before brain surgery, I thought about death. I searched out my larger values, and I asked ...

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Lance ArmstrongIt's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life

Hold fast to dreams,For if dreams dieLife is a broken-winged bird,That cannot fly.

To know that you do not know is the best.To think you know when you do not is a disease.Recognizing ...

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Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.

In pursuit of knowledge, every day something is acquired. In pursuit of wisdom, every day something ...

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Тhe gentle overcomes the rigid.The slow overcomes the fast.The weak overcomes the strong."…"Everyone...

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He was twenty. I remembered twenty. I'd known everything at twenty. It took me another year to reali...

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The one thing that I want every single child to have experienced at some point in their life, as par...

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There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.

I have been a teacher myself all my life. I have an intense passion to share with people. Our only s...

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The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes an...

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truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not g...

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Without knowledge of what I am and why I am here, it is impossible to live, and since I cannot know ...

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Show me slowly what I onlyknow the limits ofDance me to the end of love

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Leonard CohenLeonard Cohen: Poems and Songs

Knowledge of the past and of the places of the earth is the ornament and food of the mind of man.

The acquisition of knowledge is always of use to the intellect, because it may thus drive out useles...

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Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect w...

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All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledg...

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Medical knowledge and technical savvy are biodegradable. The sort of medicine that was practiced in ...

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Scoring well on tests is the sort of happy thing that gets the school district the greenbacks they c...

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Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do than what one can.

I can't imagine why knowledge, truth and love should be so much of a secret

...Writings can be stolen, or changed, or used for evil purposes. But isn't the risk worth taking? T...

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He learned that the lives of men are short and filled with pain, yet each one a priceless treasure, ...

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Lloyd AlexanderThe Foundling and Other Tales of Prydain

Self-respecting people do not care to peep at their reflections in unexpected mirrors or to see the...

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In mysticism, knowledge cannot be separated from a certain way of life which becomes its living mani...

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The world demands I make good choices on no information, and then blames my maidenhood for my mistak...

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Many people today don't want honest answers insofar as honest means unpleasant or disturbing. They w...

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Knowledge is like money: To be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in qua...

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Louis L'AmourEducation of a Wandering Man

Only one who has learned much can fully appreciate his ignorance.

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Louis L'AmourEducation of a Wandering Man

Folks who have lived the cornered sort of life most scholars, teachers, and storekeepers live seldom...

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Louis L'AmourRide the Dark Trail

Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates ...

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