Quotes 401 till 420 of 561.
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The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
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The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity.
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The library connects us with the insight and knowledge, painfully extracted from Nature, of the greatest minds that ever were, with the best teachers, drawn from the entire planet and from all our history, to instruct us without tiring, and to inspire us to make our own contribution to the collective knowledge of the human species. I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture and our concern for the future can all be tested by how well
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The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as a means to other account, and not merely as a means to other things, are knowledge, art instinctive happiness, and relations of friendship or affection.
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The media no longer ask those who know something to share that knowledge with the public. Instead they ask those who know nothing to represent the ignorance of the public and, in so doing, to legitimate it.
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The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism.
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The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.
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The more knowledge you have, the greater will be your fear of Allah.
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The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.
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The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
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The only source of knowledge is experience.
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The opinion prevailed among advanced minds that it was time that belief should be replaced increasingly by knowledge; belief that did not itself rest on knowledge was superstition, and as such had to be opposed.
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The ordinary American - as far as I can tell - knows so much less than he did fifty years ago and has such poor work habits compared with fifty years ago that the average multiplicand of knowledge/capabilities is a much smaller number than it was in 1961.
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The past is a palimpsest. Early memories are always obscured by accumulations of later knowledge.
The Regeneration Trilogy (1996) -
The pilgrims on the Mayflower landed at Plymouth Rock. To my knowledge, they didn't wait around for a return trip to Europe. You settle some place with a purpose. If you don't want to do that, stay home. You avoid an awful lot of risks by not venturing outward.
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The planet's hope and salvation lies in the adoption of revolutionary new knowledge being revealed at the frontiers of science.
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The pleasures of ignorance are as great in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
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The purpose of education is dedicated to the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.
Harvard, 14-06-1956 -
The satirist is prevented by repulsion from gaining a better knowledge of the world he is attracted to, yet he is forced by attraction to concern himself with the world that repels him.
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