“Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know – and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.”
— Isaac Asimov
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“Be ignorance thy choice, where knowledge leads to woe.”
— James Beattie
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“Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.”
— Abraham Cowley
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“I hope to attend it as Japan needs to tell the world the lessons, knowledge and reflections learned from the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 power plant.”
— Yoshihiko Noda
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“The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people.”
— Tom Clancy
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“Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.”
— Augustus Hare
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“Music is at once the product of feeling and knowledge, for it requires from its disciples, composers and performers alike, not only talent and enthusiasm, but also that knowledge and perception which are the result of protracted study and reflection.”
— Alban Berg
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“The first responsibility of the Muslim is as teacher. That is his job, to teach. His first school, his first classroom is within the household. His first student is himself. He masters himself and then he begins to convey the knowledge that he has acquired to the family. The people who are closest to him.”
— H. Rap Brown
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“Cherish that which is within you, and shut off that which is without; for much knowledge is a curse.”
— Zhuangzi
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“The knowledge I have now is not the knowledge I had then.”
— Stokely Carmichael
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“Books minister to our knowledge, to our guidance, and to our delight, by their truth, their uprightness, and their art.”
— George Henry Lewes
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