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No
university on Earth gives master’s degrees of living, of happiness.
How strange! We seem to be missing the essential, the
all-encompassing
knowledge for which universities were originally created!
-Robert Muller
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I
think that by far the most important bill in our whole code is that
for the diffusion of knowledge among the people. No other sure
foundation can be devised for the preservation of freedom, and happiness.
-Thomas
Jefferson
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Any
piece of knowledge I acquire today has a value at this moment
exactly proportioned to my skill to deal with it. Tomorrow, when
I know more, I recall that piece of knowledge and use it better.
-Mark
van Doren
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Imagination is more
important than knowledge. For while
knowledge defines all we currently know and understand,
imagination points to all we might yet discover and create.
-Albert
Einstein
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In
seeking knowledge, the first step is silence, the second listening,
the third remembering, the fourth practicing, and the fifth--teaching
others.
-Solomon Ibn Gabirol |
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| We have a
hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us;
and
the more we gain, the more is our desire. The more we see,
the more we are capable of seeing.
-Maria Mitchell |
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Trust
yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-Benjamin
Spock
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Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who
mean to be their own
governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
-James Madison |
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The
preservation of the means of knowledge among the lowest ranks
is of more importance to the public than all the property of the rich men
in the country. -John Adams
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know that we know what we know, and to know
that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.
-Copernicus |
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A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than
much knowledge that is idle. -Khalil Gibran |
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I like to
have a person's knowledge comprehend
more than one class of topics,
one row of shelves. I like a person who likes to see a fine barn
as well as a good tragedy. -Ralph Waldo
Emerson
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The greatest
obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth,
the continents and the
oceans was not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge.
-Daniel J. Boorstin |
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The aim of education is the knowledge not of fact,
but of values. -Dean William R. Inge
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| The good life is inspired by love and guided by
knowledge. -Bertrand
Russell |
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Whatever
authority I may have rests
solely
on knowing how little I know. -Socrates
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Nothing
will divide this nation more than ignorance,
and nothing can bring
us together better than an educated population.
-John
Sculley |
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Knowledge
cannot make us all leaders, but it
can help us decide which leader
to follow. -Management
Digest
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There
is a great difference between
knowing a thing and understanding it.
-Charles
Kettering
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| When people
want to win they will go to desperate extremes. However,
anyone that has already won in life has come to the conclusion
that there is no game. There is nothing but learning in this
life and it is the only thing we take with us to the
grave—knowledge. If you only understood that concept then
your heart wouldn’t break so bad. Jealousy or revenge
wouldn’t be your ambition. Stepping on others to raise
yourself up wouldn’t be a goal. Competition would be left
on the playing field, and your freedom from what other people
think about you would light the pathway out of
hell. -Shannon L. Alder |
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| Knowledge
is happiness, because to have knowledge--broad deep knowledge--is
to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To know
the thoughts and deeds that have marked humankind's progress is to
feel the great heart-throbs of humanity through the centuries; and
if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving,
one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of
life. -Helen
Keller |
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| What can we
make of the inexpressible joy of children? It is a kind of
gratitude, I think—the gratitude of the ten-year-old who wakes
to her own energy and the brisk challenge of the world. You
thought you knew the place and all its routines, but you see you
hadn’t known. Whole stacks at the library held books devoted to
things you knew nothing about. The boundary of knowledge receded,
as you poked about in books, like Lake Erie’s rim as you climbed
its cliffs. And each area of knowledge disclosed another, and
another. Knowledge wasn’t a body, or a tree, but instead air, or
space, or being—whatever pervaded, whatever never ended and
fitted into the smallest cracks and the widest space between
stars. -Annie
Dillard, An American Childhood |
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No
scientist knows the world merely by holding it at arm's length:
if we ever managed to build the objectivist wall between the
knower and the known, we could know nothing except the wall
itself. Science requires an engagement with the world, a
live encounter between the knower and the known. That encounter
has moments of distance, but it would not be an encounter without
moments of intimacy as well.
Knowing of any sort is relational, animated by a desire to come
into deeper community with what we know.
-Parker J. Palmer, The Courage to Teach |
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| We have not
the reverent feeling for the rainbow that the savage has, because
we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by
prying into that matter. -Mark Twain |
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Knowing
what you know,
be serene also, like a mountain;
and do not be distressed by misfortune.
Knowledge without serenity
is an unlit candle;
together they are honey-comb;
honey without wax is a noble thing;
wax without honey is only fit for burning.
Hakim Sanai |
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| The
larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of
wonder. -Ralph W. Sockman |
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| The
fruits of the tree of knowledge are various; they must be strong
indeed who can digest all of them. -Mary
Coleridge |
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| Knowledge
is also borrowed. It is not a flower that grows in your
soul, it is something plastic that has been imposed upon
you. -Osho |
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| Knowledge
can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live
it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot
communicate and teach it. -Herman Hesse |
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| Confucius
said, "To know what you know and know what you don't know is
the characteristic of one who knows." |
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| To
explore what it would mean to live fully, sensually alive and
passionately on purpose, I have to drop my preconceived ideas of
who and what I am. It is as if the salt of years is running
free from me. Like so many of us, my head has been stuffed
full of knowledge, but something in me is still starving. So
here, I seek to empty it of the stories, explanations, and
interpretations I am clutching in the fist of my mind. When
did it get so tightly closed that it became numb? And what
was it holding on to, anyway? I want it free. I want
my heart and soul free. Free of and free from. Free of
struggle, free from doubt in the canyons of my bones, free from
running from the truth of knowing that something has been
missing. -Dawna
Markova, I Will Not Die an Unlived Life |
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| Human life is limited, but
knowledge is limitless. To drive the limited in pursuit of
the limitless is fatal; and to presume that one really knows is
fatal indeed! -Chuang Tzu |
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| If a
little knowledge is a dangerous thing, where is a person who has
so much as to be out of danger?
-Thomas Henry Huxley |
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| The
essence of true knowledge is self-knowledge. -Daisaku Ikeda,
Buddhism
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