“After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.”
— Albert Camus
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“He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.”
— Thomas Jefferson
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“We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about.”
— Eric Hoffer
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“This persistence as private firms continued because it ensured the maximum of anonymity and secrecy to persons of tremendous public power who dreaded public knowledge of their activities as an evil almost as great as inflation.”
— Carroll Quigley
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“Wonder is the desire for knowledge.”
— Thomas Aquinas
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“No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent.”
— William Ellery Channing
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“There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride, they have yielded to the perennial temptation.”
— Walter Lippmann
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“The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.”
— Herbert Spencer
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“While many hackers have the knowledge, skills, and tools to attack computer systems, they generally lack the motivation to cause violence or severe economic or social harm.”
— Dorothy Denning
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“The more knowledge you have, the greater will be your fear of Allah.”
— Abu Bakr
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“I noticed a lot of guitar players neglected the rhythm part of rhythm guitar and decided I would try to focus in that. As my skill and knowledge of the instrument grew, I found lead started to come naturally. Sometimes I play guitar like a frustrated drummer. Ha ha!”
— Hal Sparks
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