“Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.”
— George Eliot
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At any rate, girls are differently situated.
“At any rate, girls are differently situated. Having no need of deep scientific knowledge, their education is confined more to the ordinary things of the world, the study of the fine arts, and of the manners and dispositions of people.”
— William John Wills
Author: William John Wills
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Today mythical thinking has fallen into disrepute;
“Today mythical thinking has fallen into disrepute; we often dismiss it as irrational and self-indulgent. But the imagination is also the faculty that has enabled scientists to bring new knowledge to light and to invent technology that has made us immeasurably more effective.”
— Karen Armstrong
Author: Karen Armstrong
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As a species we are always hungry
“As a species we are always hungry for new knowledge.”
— Chaim Potok
Author: Chaim Potok
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To act on the belief that we
“To act on the belief that we possess the knowledge and the power which enable us to shape the processes of society entirely to our liking, knowledge which in fact we do not possess, is likely to make us do much harm.”
— Friedrich August von Hayek
Author: Friedrich August von Hayek
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For whatever be the knowledge which we
“For whatever be the knowledge which we are able to obtain of God, either by perception or reflection, we must of necessity believe that He is by many degrees far better than what we perceive Him to be.”
— Origen
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I shall suggest, on the contrary, that
“I shall suggest, on the contrary, that all communication relies, to a noticeable extent on evoking knowledge that we cannot tell, and that all our knowledge of mental processes, like feelings or conscious intellectual activities, is based on a knowledge which we cannot tell.”
— Michael Polanyi
Author: Michael Polanyi
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There was never a nation great until
“There was never a nation great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help.”
— Charles Dudley Warner
Author: Charles Dudley Warner
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It takes considerable knowledge just to realize
“It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.”
— Thomas Sowell
Author: Thomas Sowell
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But now with the living conditions deteriorating,
“But now with the living conditions deteriorating, and with the sure knowledge that we are slated for destruction, we have been transformed into an implacable army of liberation.”
— George Jackson
Author: George Jackson
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Human behavior flows from three main sources:
“Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.”
— Plato
Author: Plato
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