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“The knowledge I have now is not the knowledge I had then.”— Stokely Carmichael
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“The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn when teachers themselves are taught to learn.”— Bertolt Brecht
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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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“Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.”— Lord Chesterfield
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“Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.”— Zhuangzi
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“A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.”— Hippocrates
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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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“We have no firm hold on any knowledge or philosophy that can lift us out of our difficulties.”— Anne Sullivan Macy
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“Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ.”— John Calvin
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“If I was left to my own devices, you would see about ten T-shirts in rotation with maybe a few nice pairs of jeans - but I also like to look good. I like feeling really well put together, I just don't have the aptitude and the knowledge to do that.”— Daniel Radcliffe
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“In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.”— George Herbert
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“Knowledge is that possession that no misfortune can destroy, no authority can revoke, and no enemy can control. This makes knowledge the greatest of all freedoms.”— Bryant H. McGill
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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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“You can practice to attain knowledge, but you can't practice to attain wisdom.”— Herbie Hancock
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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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“Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.”— Ludwig Wittgenstein
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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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“The most wonderful study of mankind is man. Relieving human suffering and diffusing universal knowledge is humanitarian.”— Daniel D. Palmer
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“Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them.”— Lord Chesterfield
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“Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge.”— Daniel J. Boorstin
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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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“Sin, guilt, neurosis they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.”— Henry Miller
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“Knowledge is not eating, and we cannot expect to devour and possess what we mean. Knowledge is recognition of something absent it is a salutation, not an embrace.”— George Santayana
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“I feel like 35. At 35 you're old enough to know something and young enough to look forward to what you can do with the knowledge. So I stayed at 35!”— Michael Caine
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“To those who have chosen the profession of medicine, a knowledge of chemistry, and of some branches of natural history, and, indeed, of several other departments of science, affords useful assistance.”— Charles Babbage