975 private quotes tagged knowledge

“Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.” — John Holt

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“The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.” — William S. Burroughs

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“After the Berlin Wall came down I visited that city and I will never forget it. The abandoned checkpoints. The sense of excitement about the future. The knowledge that a great continent was coming together. Healing those wounds of our history is the central story of the European Union.” — David Cameron

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“Life is a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter.” — Charles Lindbergh

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“The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.” — Herbert Spencer

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“Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.” — Brian Tracy

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“A healthy vision of the future is not possible without an accurate knowledge of the past.” — Daisaku Ikeda

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“Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.” — Horace

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“It is one of my sources of happiness never to desire a knowledge of other people's business.” — Dolley Madison

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“Discussion is an exchange of knowledge an argument an exchange of ignorance.” — Robert Quillen

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“It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.” — Thomas Sowell

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“Another hero was Tom Swift, in the books. What he stood for, the freedom, the scientific knowledge and being and engineer gave him the ability to invent solutions to problems. He's always been a hero to me. I buy old Tom Swift books now and read them to my own children.” — Steve Wozniak

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“If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind?” — Maria Montessori

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“Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.” — John Adams

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“I'm always trying to find brain food and indulge in knowledge that's gonna be useful.” — Big Boi

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“The aim of education is the knowledge not of facts but of values.” — William Ralph Inge

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“The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading.” — David Bailey

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“I came literally to the table with a wealth of knowledge by simply understanding how food should taste.” — Rocco DiSpirito

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“I think a lot of food shows, especially when we started 'Good Eats' back in the late '90s, they were still really about food. 'Good Eats' isn't about food, it's about entertainment. If, however, we can virally infect you with knowledge or interest, then all the better.” — Alton Brown

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“My philosophy from day one is that I can sleep better at night if I can improve an individual's knowledge about food and wine, and do it on a daily basis.” — Emeril Lagasse

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“Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.” — Kofi Annan

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“I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance.” — Ruben Blades

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“And my first film was Carnal Knowledge, another amazing experience, largely because of Mike Nichols, who would tell me you can't do anything wrong because you're doing everything right.” — Carol Kane

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“The more knowledge you have, the greater will be your fear of Allah.” — Abu Bakr

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“I served the famous professors and scholars, and eventually they learned that the Reverend Moon is superior to them. Even Nobel laureate academics who thought they were at the center of knowledge are as nothing in front of me.” — Sun Myung Moon

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