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My wealth is in my knowledge of self, love, and spirituality.

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Muhammad AliThe Soul of a Butterfly: Reflections on Life's Journey

The greatest victory in life is to rise above the material things that we once valued most.

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Muhammad AliThe Soul of a Butterfly: Reflections on Life's Journey

I hear the singing of the lives of women. The clear mystery the offering the pride.

There are no limitations to the mind except those that we acknowledge.

The way of success is the way of continuous pursuit of knowledge.

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Napoleon HillThink and Grow Rich: The Landmark Bestseller - Now Revised and Updated for the 21st Century

Knowledge has no value except that which can be gained from its application toward some worthy end.

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Napoleon HillThink and Grow Rich: The Landmark Bestseller - Now Revised and Updated for the 21st Century

The problem of knowledge is that there are many more books on birds written by ornithologists than b...

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Nassim Nicholas TalebThe Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

You cannot do anything with knowledge unless you know where it stops, and the costs of using it.

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Nassim Nicholas TalebThe Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge: the ...

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Nate SilverThe Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail - But Some Don't

They knew many things but had no idea why. And strangely this made them more, rather than less, cert...

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In your Primer you have a resource that will make you highly educated, but it will never make you in...

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Knowledge is fundamental to all human achievements and progress. It is both the key and the quest th...

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Research is creating new knowledge.

I don't know much more than I did when I was alive. Most of the stuff I know now that I didn't know ...

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She said we all not only could know everything. We do. We just tell ourselves we don't to make it al...

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Watch a man--say, a politician--being interviewed on television, an you are observing a demonstratio...

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Every television program must be a complete package in itself. No previous knowledge is to be requir...

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Neil PostmanAmusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

In America, everyone is entitled to an opinion, and it is certainly useful to have a few when a poll...

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Neil PostmanAmusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

I know that the molecules in my body are traceable to phenomena in the cosmos. That makes me want to...

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I would teach how science works as much as I would teach what science knows. I would assert (given t...

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For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday ...

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Ignorance is a virus. Once it starts spreading, it can only be cured by reason. For the sake of huma...

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I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge.

Doing what has never been done before is intellectually seductive, whether or not we deem it practic...

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It's okay not to know all the answers. It's better to admit our ignorance than to believe answers th...

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... informed ignorance provides the natural state of mind for research scientists at the ever-shifti...

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Neil deGrasse TysonOrigins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution

... there is no shame in not knowing. The problem arises when irrational thought and attendant behav...

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Neil deGrasse TysonThe Sky Is Not the Limit: Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist

As was the case for Nobel's own invention of dynamite, the uses that are made of increased knowledge...

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Because there are three classes of intellects: one which comprehends by itself; another which apprec...

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The purpose of collecting so much information can only be power.

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Nick DrakeNefertiti: The Book of the Dead

My advice to women in general: Even if you're doing a nine-to-five job, treat yourself like a boss. ...

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Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation but as a question.[A caution he give...

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To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true...

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In spiritually arid centuries, the only man to realize that the century is dying from thirst is the ...

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Electrical science has revealed to us the true nature of light, has provided us with innumerable app...

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I felt deep within me that the highest point a man can attain is not Knowledge, or Virtue, or Goodne...

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Prejudice begets prejudice, you see. Knowledge does not always evolve into wisdom.

The foundation of all free government and all social order must be laid in families and in the disci...

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The simplest questions are the hardest to answer.

Wisdom is the central form which gives meaning and position to all the facts which are acquired by k...

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President Reagan didn't always know what he knew.

I always introduce myself as an encyclopedia of defects which I do not deny. Why should I? It took m...

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It’s there in your own Bible, Carlotta. Two trees—knowledge and life. You eat of the tree of knowled...

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When you have wisdom that another person knows that he needs, you give it freely. But when the other...

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The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing.

The English novels are the only relaxation of the intellectually unemployed. But one should not be t...

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nothing that is worth knowing can be taught

My great mistake the fault for which I can't forgive myself is that one day I ceased my obstinate ...

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You are a wonderful creation. You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you ...

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Music had stirred him like that. Music had troubled him many times. But music was not articulate. It...

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I wish you were small again, so I could hold you in my arms and comfort you. But you are grown, and ...

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The principle chore of brains is to get the body parts where they should be in order that the organi...

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We pimp our precious lives to the infernal gnashing babble - Follow me! Friend me! Like me! But don'...

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Patrick MarberDon Juan in Soho: After Molière

What? No defense? Any student of mine must be able to defend his ideas against an attack. No matter ...

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And if Amsterdam was hell, and if hell was a memory, then he realized that perhaps there was some pu...

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Paul AusterThe Invention of Solitude

The key question, it seemed to him, was that of whether man was to obey Nature, or attempt to comman...

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To penetrate one's being one must go armed to the teeth.

Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any idea...

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The soil needs the seed and the seed needs the soil. The one only has meaning with the other. It is ...

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When we venture in that unfamiliar sea, we trust blindly in those who guide us, believing that they ...

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Paulo CoelhoThe Witch Of Portobello

P33- Oppression is domesticating. Gravest obstacle to the achievement of liberation is that oppressi...

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You never find yourself until you face the truth.

No one can figure out your worth but you.

Whatever came to him was good. It was life. It was knowledge.

Man who man would be must rule the empire of himself.

I have sent books and music there, and all / Those instruments with which high spirits call / The fu...

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Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.

A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.

I will not subject you to a restraint, in the manner of scriptures and ancient works, by stating tha...

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When I was eighteen or twenty, I knew everything except what I wanted. I knew all about people, and ...

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If Enlightenment in a technical sense is the programmatic word for progress in the awareness of expl...

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Part of the strength of science is that it has tended to attract individuals who love knowledge and ...

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There is no disappointment we endure one-half so great as what we are to ourselves.

Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. We can't talk about science...

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Maybe I shouldn’t have told you––about it being electrical.” She put her hand out, touched his arm; ...

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Philip K. DickDo Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Knowledge unqualified is knowledge simply of something learned.

And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.

A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we ...

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Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; t...

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Knowledge is the food of the soul.

The life which is unexamined is not worth living.

I thought to myself: I am wiser than this man; neither of us probably knows anything that is really ...

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Socrates: This man, on one hand, believes that he knows something, while not knowing [anything]. On ...

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The reason is that they utter these words of theirs not by virtue of a skill, but by a divine power ...

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Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under co...

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And whenever any one informs us that he has found a man who knows all the arts, and all things else ...

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Either we shall find what it is we are seeking or at least we shall free ourselves from the persuasi...

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PlatoThe Republic

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance

Haven't you noticed that opinion without knowledge is always a poor thing? At the best it is blind—i...

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Those who don't know must learn from those who do.

Then we shan’t regard anyone as a lover of knowledge or wisdom who is fussy about what he studies…

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PlatoThe Republic and Other Works

Knowing is not simply a material act, since the object that is known always conceals something beyon...

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Pope Benedict XVICharity in Truth: Caritas in Veritate

Nothin's what it seems, drow!" Bruenor declared. "Nothin'! Ye try to follow what ye know, ye know? B...

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If facts are the seeds that later produce knowledge and wisdom, then the emotions and the impression...

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Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain?