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• Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.

  Kofi Annan

  Education, Information Is Power, Progress Of Society

  Kofi Atta Annan (1998). “The quotable Kofi Annan: selections from speeches and statements by the Secretary-General”, United Nations

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• The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

  John F. Kennedy

  Wise, Wisdom, Soulmate

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• Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Wise, Fashion, Ignorance

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• I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.

  Robert Benchley

  Funny, Witty, Humorous

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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

  Doctors, Doe, Nerves

  The Speckled Band

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• Scientific discovery and scientific knowledge have been achieved only by those who have gone in pursuit of it without any practical purpose whatsoever in view.

  Max Planck

  Science, Discovery, Views

  Max Planck (1932). “Where is Science Going?”

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• Knowledge leads to unity, but ignorance to diversity.

  Ramakrishna

  Ignorance, Diversity, Unity

  Ramakrishna (1916). “Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna: the most exhaustive collection of the sacred and inspired utterances of Bhagavan Sri Ramakrishna”

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• No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

  Khalil Gibran

  Lying, Men, Half

  Khalil Gibran, “Teaching XVIII”

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• Most people's historical perspective begins with the day of their birth.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Education, People, Perspective

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• Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Nature, Lying, Mind

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1956). “The birth of tragedy and The genealogy of morals”

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• Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.

  Louis Pasteur

  Country, Hard Work, Science

  1876 Toast at the banquet of the International Congress of Sericulture (translated by Rene Dubois).

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• Knowledge is a sacred cow, and my problem will be how we can milk her while keeping clear of her horns.

  Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

  Milk, Cows, Sacred

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• Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.

  Karl Popper

  Learning, Ignorance, Science

  Lecture to British Academy, 20 Jan. 1960, in Proceedings of the British Academy (1960) vol. 46, p. 69

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• We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Wisdom, Literature, Sharing Knowledge

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”

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• Great minds are always feared by lesser minds.

  Dan Brown

  Mind, Great Minds

  Dan Brown (2010). “The Lost Symbol Illustrated edition”, p.613, Random House

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• In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Real, Science, Winning

  Alfred North Whitehead (1997). “Science and the Modern World”, p.187, Simon and Schuster

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• Nobody knows enough, but many know too much.

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  Too Much, Enough, Nobody Knows

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• The stupidity of a stupid man is mercifully intimate and reticient, while the stupidity of an intellectual is cried from the rooftops.

  Peter Ustinov

  Stupid, Men, Intellectual

  Peter Ustinov (1978). “Dear Me”, Penguin Books

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• We are in fact convinced that if we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself. It seems, to judge from the argument, that the wisdom which we desire and upon which we profess to have set our hearts will be attainable only when we are dead and not in our lifetime.

  Socrates

  Wisdom, Heart, Judging

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• A scientist has to be neutral in his search for the truth, but he cannot be neutral as to the use of that truth when found. If you know more than other people, you have more responsibility, rather than less.

  C.P. Snow

  Responsibility, Science, People

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• If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?

  Thomas Huxley

  Leadership, Sports, Freedom

  'Collected Essays' vol. 3 (1895) 'On Elementary Instruction in Physiology' (written 1877)

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• Scientific apparatus offers a window to knowledge, but as they grow more elaborate, scientists spend ever more time washing the windows.

  Isaac Asimov

  Time, Science, Window

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• The thing that's important to know is that you never know. You're always sort of feeling your way.

  Diane Arbus

  Photography, Yoga, Feelings

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• Certainty is the most vivid condition of ignorance and the most necessay condition for knowledge.

  Kedar Joshi

  Ignorance, Science, Ignorant

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  Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.

  Langston Hughes

  Love, Inspirational, Change

  "Dreams" l. 1 (1929)

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