“If we had failed to pursue the facts as far as they led, we would have denied the public any knowledge of an unprecedented scheme of political surveillance and sabotage.”
— Katharine Graham
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“I think it is totally wrong and terribly harmful if education is defined as acquiring knowledge.”
— William Glasser
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“Throughout the past, there has been a lack of intimacy, affection, and regard for Islam by Christianity. This, to a large extent, has been due to a lack of knowledge of the great human and spiritual ideals for which Islam and the teachings of Islam stand.”
— Aly Khan
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“The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy.”
— Irving Babbitt
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“The courage of a soldier is heightened by his knowledge of his profession.”
— Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus
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“Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.”
— Ambrose Bierce
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“Now, my knowledge of photography was terribly limited.”
— Ben Shahn
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“Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.”
— John Cheever
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“Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing.”
— Konrad Lorenz
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“The Communist Party said that I must finish my studies because after the revolution in Germany people would be required with technical knowledge to take part in the building of the Communist Germany.”
— Klaus Fuchs
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“Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying.”
— Johannes Tauler
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