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• Artist, gain knowledge, but know that the greatest guru of all is the guru within.

  Robert Genn

  Artist, Gains, Guru

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• The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.

  Albert Einstein

  Life, Motivational, God

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.49, Broadway Books

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• Was it not the great philosopher and mathematician Leibnitz who said that the more knowledge advances the more it becomes possible to condense it into little books?

  J. Arthur Thomson

  Book, Science, Littles

  J. Arthur Thomson (2008). “The Outline of Science, First Volume”, p.3, Wildside Press LLC

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• Although humankind inherently "desires to know", if open access to, and unlimited development of, knowledge henceforth puts us all in clear danger of extinction, then common sense demands that we re-examine our reverence for knowledge.

  Bill Joy

  Common Sense, Desire, Development

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• After the initial critical learning period of youth is over, the areas of the brain that need to be 'turned on' to allow enhanced, long lasting learning can only be activated when something important, surprising, or novel occurs, or if we make the effort to pay close attention.

  Norman Doidge

  Long, Effort, Brain

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• Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Life, Wisdom, Taken

  D. H. Lawrence, Michael Herbert (1988). “Reflections on the Death of a Porcupine and Other Essays”, p.262, Cambridge University Press

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• Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.

  Thomas Huxley

  Education, Authority And Power, Government

  Thomas Henry Huxley, Cyril Bibby (1971). “T. H. Huxley on Education”, p.72, Cambridge University Press

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• Life is difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth, we transcend it. Once we truly know that life is difficult-once we truly understand and accept it-then life is no longer difficult. Because once it is accepted, the fact that life is difficult no longer matters.

  M. Scott Peck

  Spiritual, Encouragement, Truth

  M. Scott Peck (2002). “The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• To know how to put what knowledge in which place is wisdom (hikmah). Otherwise, knowledge without order and seeking it without discipline does lead to confusion and hence to injustice to one's self.

  Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas

  Wisdom, Self Esteem, Order

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• The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.

  Isaac Asimov

  True Friend, Business, Learning

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• A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.

  Jane Austen

  Inspiring, Women, Knowing

  'Northanger Abbey' (1818) ch. 14

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• The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love.

  Luther Burbank

  Love, Garden, Grandchildren

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• An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

  Albert Camus

  Responsibility, Intelligent, Intellectual

  Carnets, 1935-42 (Notebooks, 1962) p. 41

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• I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.

  Alexander the Great

  Dominion, Excellent

  "Life of Alexander" by Plutarch, translated by John Dryden, 1895.

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• Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.

  Aldous Huxley

  Science, Darkness, World

  1925 Views of Holland.

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• I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House - with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.

  John F. Kennedy

  Science, Thinking, White

  Remarks at dinner honoring Nobel Prize winners of the Western Hemisphere, Washington, D.C., 29 Apr. 1962

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• We are approaching a new age of synthesis. Knowledge cannot be merely a degree or a skill... it demands a broader vision, capabilities in critical thinking and logical deduction without which we cannot have constructive progress.

  Li Ka-shing

  Inspirational, Business, Intelligent

  "Financial Expert Witness Communication: A Practical Guide to Reporting and Testimony". Book by Bradley J. Preber (p. 81), May 9, 2014.

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• Traditional scientific method has always been at the very best, 20 - 20 hindsight. It's good for seeing where you've been. It's good for testing the truth of what you think you know, but it can't tell you where you ought to go.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Science, Thinking, Scientific Method

  1974 Zen and theArt of MotorcycleMaintenance, pt.3, ch.24.

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• Poverty and lack of knowledge must be challenged.

  Russell Simmons

  Educational, Inspirational Running, Poverty

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• There is nothing which can better deserve your patronage, than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.

  George Washington

  Country, Inspiration, Science

  George Washington, Jared Sparks (1838). “The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private”, p.9

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• I think that only daring speculation can lead us further and not accumulation of facts.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Thinking

  "Scientifically speaking: a dictionary of quotations", Volume 1, (p. 154), 2002.

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• The end of man is knowledge, but there is one thing he can't know. He can't know whether knowledge will save him or kill him. He will be killed, all right, but he can't know whether he is killed because of the knowledge which he has got or because of the knowledge which he hasn't got and which if he had it, would save him.

  Robert Penn Warren

  Men, Ends, Knows

  Robert Penn Warren (2006). “All the King's Men”, p.14, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less.

  Nicholas Murray Butler

  Funny, Encouraging, Education

  Commencement address at Columbia University

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• That there should one man die ignorant who had capacity for knowledge, this I call a tragedy.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Ignorance, Men, Ignorant

  Thomas Carlyle (1864). “Sartor Resartus”, p.140

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• The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown.

  Albert Einstein

  Learning, Differences, People

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