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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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It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants.
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It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
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It is the woman who chooses the man who will choose her.
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Johnny's in the basement
Mixing up the medicine
I'm on the pavement
Thinking about the government
The man in the trenchcoat
Badge out, laid off
Says he's got a bad cough
Wants to get it paid off
Look out kid
It's somethin' you did
God knows when
But you're doin' it againSource: Bringing It All Back Home (1965) -
Knowledge can be communicated, but wisdom cannot. A man can find it, he can live it, he can be filled and sustained by it, but he cannot utter or teach it.
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Knowledge is proud that he has learn'd so much; wisdom is humble that he knows no more.
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Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another.
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Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.
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Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.
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Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mass, the mere materials with which wisdom builds, till smoothed and squared and fitted to its place, does but encumber whom it seems to enrich. Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much; wisdom is humble that he knows no more.
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Lack of knowledge concerning all the factors and the failure to include them in our integral imposes false conclusions.
Source: Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking (1975)― Richard Buckminster Fuller
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Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing.
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Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.
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Leisure time should be an occasion for deep purpose to throb and for ideas to ferment. Where a man allows leisure to slip without some creative use, he has forfeited a bit of happiness.
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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
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Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity.
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Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought.
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Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial.
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