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“We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.”— Michel de Montaigne
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“The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.”— John F. Kennedy
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“I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House - with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.”— John F. Kennedy
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“Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.”— Khalil Gibran
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“Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.”— Carl Sagan
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“Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.”— Friedrich Nietzsche
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“A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.”— Aldous Huxley
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“You should not ask questions without knowledge.”— W. Edwards Deming
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“There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.”— Napoleon Hill
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“True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.”— Henry David Thoreau
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“Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.”— Lord Byron
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“Beware of false knowledge it is more dangerous than ignorance.”— George Bernard Shaw
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“No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.”— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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“What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.”— George Bernard Shaw
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“The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.”— Benjamin Disraeli
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“A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.”— Thomas Carlyle
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“There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.”— Michel de Montaigne
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“The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.”— Friedrich Nietzsche
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“The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.”— Elbert Hubbard
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“Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?”— T. S. Eliot
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“Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.”— Plato
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“The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.”— Henry Ward Beecher
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“Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.”— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.”— Benjamin Franklin
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“I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions.”— Plutarch