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“Knowledge is a beautiful thing, but there are a few things I wish I didn't know.”— Susan Orlean
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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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“True, some land was bought by a few Cabinet Ministers. They bought the land. No minister, to my knowledge acquired land which was meant for resettlement.”— Robert Mugabe
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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 desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.”— Laurence Sterne
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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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“Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.”— Will Durant
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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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“As governor, I saw the link between economic prosperity and the ability to acquire knowledge.”— Jeb Bush
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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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“There is a general knowledge that I am multi-dimensional, that when you are creative you do a lot of things.”— Suzanne Somers
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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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“Ignorance is never better than knowledge.”— Enrico Fermi
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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 fills a large brain it merely inflates a small one.”— Sydney J. Harris
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“Building technical systems involves a lot of hard work and specialized knowledge: languages and protocols, coding and debugging, testing and refactoring.”— Jesse James Garrett
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“What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.”— Georg C. Lichtenberg
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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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“But now with the living conditions deteriorating, and with the sure knowledge that we are slated for destruction, we have been transformed into an implacable army of liberation.”— George Jackson
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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
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“Heroes to me are guys that sit in libraries. They absorb knowledge and then the risks they take are calculated on the basis of the courage it took to become replete with knowledge.”— William Hurt