“Our working hypothesis is that the status of knowledge is altered as societies enter what is known as the postindustrial age and cultures enter what is known as the postmodern age.”
— Jean-Francois Lyotard
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“It has been a privilege to pursue knowledge for its own sake and to see how it might help mankind in more practical ways.”
— Paul Nurse
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“The aim of education is the knowledge not of facts but of values.”
— William Ralph Inge
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“They taught us because they wanted to pass the knowledge on and educate young musicians. It was not because they had to teach because they failed as musicians. There is a huge difference in the reasons why someone is teaching and what they can offer and what they cannot offer.”
— Miroslav Vitous
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“Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.”
— George Bernard Shaw
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“Can the knowledge deriving from reason even begin to compare with knowledge perceptible by sense?”
— Louis Aragon
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“So long as these kinds of inequalities persist, all of us who are given expensive educations have to live with the knowledge that our victories are contaminated because the game has been rigged to our advantage.”
— Jonathan Kozol
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“Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.”
— G. I. Gurdjieff
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“Medical knowledge and technical savvy are biodegradable. The sort of medicine that was practiced in Boston or New York or Atlanta fifty years ago would be as strange to a medical student or intern today as the ceremonial dance of a !Kung San tribe would seem to a rock festival audience in Hackensack.”
— Lewis Thomas
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“When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge.”
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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“Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.”
— Plato
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