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“No matter how mistaken Communist ideas may be, the experience and knowledge gained by trying them out have given a tremendous impetus to thought and imagination.”— Anne Sullivan Macy
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“The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.”— Moses Hadas
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“Courage is... the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.”— David Ben-Gurion
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“Today mythical thinking has fallen into disrepute we often dismiss it as irrational and self-indulgent. But the imagination is also the faculty that has enabled scientists to bring new knowledge to light and to invent technology that has made us immeasurably more effective.”— Karen Armstrong
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“Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination.”— Alfred North Whitehead
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“No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.”— John Locke
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“Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.”— E. E. Cummings
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“Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.”— Arthur Rimbaud
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“The courage of a soldier is heightened by his knowledge of his profession.”— Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus
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“Knowledge is the life of the mind.”— Abu Bakr
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“Inductive reason, which alone makes man master of his environment, is an achievement and when once born it must be reinforced by inhibiting the growth of other modes of knowledge.”— Muhammad Iqbal
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“The age we live in is a busy age in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection.”— Jeremy Bentham
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“The medieval university looked backwards it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge. The modern university looks forward, and is a factory of new knowledge.”— Thomas Huxley
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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.”— Carl Friedrich Gauss
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“A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality.”— Milan Kundera
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“In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.”— George Herbert
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“Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.”— Calvin Coolidge
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“If in preaching the gospel you substitute your knowledge of the way of salvation for confidence in the power of the gospel, you hinder people from getting to reality.”— Oswald Chambers
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“What does mysticism really mean? It means the way to attain knowledge. It's close to philosophy, except in philosophy you go horizontally while in mysticism you go vertically.”— Elie Wiesel
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“With our knowledge of modern-day genetics, we realize that it was possible for God to place the potential for all people throughout history into the genes of Adam and Eve when He created them.”— Walter Lang
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“The will to do springs from the knowledge that we can do.”— James Allen
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“We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.”— Charles Caleb Colton
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“True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.”— Baltasar Gracian
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“When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge.”— Arthur Conan Doyle
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“Sin, guilt, neurosis they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.”— Henry Miller