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'Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. |
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- Bertrand Russell
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...it was always said of him Scrooge that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge. May that be truly said of us, and all of us |
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- Charles Dickens
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...since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned. |
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- John Holt
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A learned man is an idler who kills time with study. Beware of his false knowledge it is more dangerous than ignorance. |
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- George Bernard Shaw
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A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to Farce, or a Tragedy, or perhaps both. 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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- James Madison
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A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy. |
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- Camille Paglia
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A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education. |
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- Theodore Roosevelt
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Abundance of knowledge does not teach men to be wise. |
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- Heraclitus
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Activity is the only road to knowledge. |
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- George Bernard Shaw
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All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God. |
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- Voltaire
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