“God had brought me to my knees and made me acknowledge my own nothingness, and out of that knowledge I had been reborn. I was no longer the centre of my life and therefore I could see God in everything.”
— Bede Griffiths
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“Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.”
— Mary Richards
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“Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.”
— Plato
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“I thought they may have presumed too much knowledge of certain things for people who are not comedians. Like Montreal. A comic understands what it is and its importance, but someone else may not know about it.”
— Todd Barry
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“I and my colleagues here have been engaged in the pursuit of knowledge.”
— Frederick Sanger
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“Education can counteract the natural tendency to do the wrong thing, but the inexorable succession of generations requires that the basis for this knowledge be constantly refreshed.”
— Garrett Hardin
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“An excessive knowledge of Marxism is a sign of a misspent youth.”
— John McCarthy
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“My mom took me to see Carnal Knowledge and The Wild Bunch and all these kind of movies when I was a kid.”
— Quentin Tarantino
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“Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.”
— Samuel Johnson
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“A number of scientists with greatly different backgrounds can come up with completely different assessments. The discussions or controversies are endless. Once a year, we try to bring the most important discoverers together to exchange their experiences and knowledge.”
— Richard Leakey
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“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.”
— John Locke
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