“There are in fact two things, science and opinion the former begets knowledge, the later ignorance.”
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“The apple cannot be stuck back on the Tree of Knowledge once we begin to see, we are doomed and challenged to seek the strength to see more, not less.”
“The truth is often terrifying, which I think is one of the motifs of Larry and Andrew's cinema. The cost of knowledge is an important theme. In the second and third films, they explore the consequences of Neo's choice to know the truth. It's a beautiful, beautiful story.”
“Knowledge is a beautiful thing, but there are a few things I wish I didn't know.”
“There is a general knowledge that I am multi-dimensional, that when you are creative you do a lot of things.”
“Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.”
“The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.”
“If knowledge and foresight are too penetrating and deep, unify them with ease and sincerity.”
“Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ.”
“It is remarkable how many misconceptions there are here about life in the developing world and I think that that knowledge gap has done a lot to contribute to the imbalance quite frankly.”
“G is Grace, the Flaming Star is the Torch of Reason. Those who possess this knowledge are indeed Illuminati.”
“Building technical systems involves a lot of hard work and specialized knowledge: languages and protocols, coding and debugging, testing and refactoring.”
“What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.”
“The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.”
“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.”
“Knowledge fills a large brain it merely inflates a small one.”
“An humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning.”
“People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding.”
“The ordinary American - as far as I can tell - knows so much less than he did fifty years ago and has such poor work habits compared with fifty years ago that the average multiplicand of knowledge/capabilities is a much smaller number than it was in 1961.”
“Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.”
“I believe patriotism comes from the heart. Patriotism is voluntary. It is a feeling of loyalty and allegiance that is the result of knowledge and belief.”
“My practicality consists in this, in the knowledge that if you beat your head against the wall it is your head which breaks and not the wall - that is my strength, my only strength.”
“The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.”
“Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.”