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" Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul. "
Will Durant
Knowledge
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" We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid. "
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" Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn. "
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" Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard. "
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" The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge. "
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" The family is the nucleus of civilization. "
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" Wonder is the desire for knowledge. "
Thomas Aquinas
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" Those who have knowledge, don't predict. Those who predict, don't have knowledge. "
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" In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order. "
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" Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge. "
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" Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge. "
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" Allah says in the Qur'an not to despise one another. So the criterion in Islam is not color or social status. It's who is most righteous. If I go to a mosque - and I'm a basketball player with money and prestige - if I go to a mosque and see an imam, I feel inferior. He's better than me. It's about knowledge. "
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" Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad. "
Brian O'Driscoll
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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 knowledge. "
Nicolaus Copernicus
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" The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance. "
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" If man asks for many laws it is only because he is sure that his neighbor needs them; privately he is an unphilosophical anarchist, and thinks laws in his own case superfluous. "
Will Durant
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Only
" Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art. "
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Philosophy
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" The end of all knowledge should be service to others. "
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End
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" Electrical science has revealed to us the true nature of light, has provided us with innumerable appliances and instruments of precision, and has thereby vastly added to the exactness of our knowledge. "
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" Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory. "
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Memory
Mom
Tired
" Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives. "
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" Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; but knowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, unlimited in space and indefinite in duration. "
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" It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment. "
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" Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions. "
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Adjust
Themselves
" The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching. "
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" I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge; I am one who is fond of antiquity, and earnest in seeking it there. "
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" The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It's the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages. "
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