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"For truth is precious and divine Too rich a pearl for carnal swine." »Samuel Butler
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"He is not of us who is not affectionate to the little ones, and does not respect the old; and he is not of us, who does not order which is lawful, and prohibits that which is unlawful." »Prophet Mohammed, ibn abbas
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"When salvation is viewed as man's program, it is left up to man as to whether he will let God do this or that, but when it is viewed as God's program, there is a confidence and a certainty that no one whom God regenerates will be a carnal Christian." »Michael Horton
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"Expecting a carjacker or rapist or drug pusher to care that his possession or use of a gun is unlawful is like expecting a terrorist to care that his car bomb is taking up two parking spaces." »Joseph T. Chew
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"Nurture an appetite for being puzzled, for being confused, indeed for being openly stupid, and that - despite what you may think - is very difficult...We all know the cliche' that a little knowledge can be a dangerous thing. It is also true that a lot of knowledge can be a dangerous thing as well...use your ignorance as well as your knowledge for creative means." »Lee C. Bollinger
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"The acquisition of knowledge is the mission of research, the transmission of knowledge is the mission of teaching and the application of knowledge is the mission of public service." »James A. Perkins
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"The end of man is knowledge but there's 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
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"I could have spoken from Rhode Island where I have been staying ... But I felt that, in speaking from the house of Lincoln, of Jackson, and of Wilson, my words would better convey both the sadness I feel in the action I was compelled today to make and the firmness with which I intend to pursue this course until the orders of the federal court at Little Rock can be executed without unlawful interference. (On sending troops to enforce integration in Little Rock AR High School)" »Dwight D Eisenhower
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"We know next to nothing about virtually everything. It is not necessary to know the origin of the universe; it is necessary to want to know. Civilization depends not on any particular knowledge, but on the disposition to crave knowledge." »George F. Will
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"knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms." »Kahlil Gibran
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"We know next to nothing about virtually everything. It is not necessary to know the origin of the universe it is necessary to want to know. Civilization depends not on any particular knowledge, but on the disposition to crave knowledge." »George Will
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"knowledge is not simply another commodity. On the contrary. knowledge is never used up. It increases by diffusion and grows by dispersion." »Daniel J. Boorstin
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"Western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but rather, it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent." »Vine Deloria
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"Never lose sight of this important truth, that no one can be truly great until he has gained a knowledge of himself, a knowledge which can only be acquired by occasional retirement." »Johann Georg von Zimmermann
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"knowledge comes by eyes always open and working hard, and there is no knowledge that is not power." »Jeremy Taylor
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"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge." »Stephen Hawking
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"It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge." »Enrico Fermi
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"Adorn thy mind with knowledge, for knowledge maketh thy worth." »Firdausi
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"knowledge, the object of knowledge and the knower are the three factors which motivate action the senses, the work and the doer comprise the threefold basis of action." »Bhagavad Gita
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"Choose knowledge, if thou desirest a blessing from the Universal Provider; for the ignorant man cannot raise himself above the earth, and it is by knowledge that thou must render thy soul praiseworthy." »Firdausi
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"The adage that knowledge is power is true. In the world of financial markets and investments, knowledge is the ultimate power. Educate yourself before you invest, if you know something that others don't, you will make a lot of money" »Med Jones
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"More appealing than knowledge itself is the feeling of knowledge." »Daniel J. Boorstin
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"A true knowledge of ourselves is knowledge of our power." »Mark Rutherford
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"A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to Farce, or a Tragedy, or perhaps both. knowledge will forever govern ignorance. and a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives." »James Madison
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"The fact that people have religious experiences is interesting from the psychological point of view, but it does not in any way imply that there is such a thing as religious knowledge...Unless he can formulate this 'knowledge' in propositions that are empirically verifiable, we may be sure that he is deceiving himself." »Alfred Jules Ayer
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"I thought to myself, 'I am wiser than this man neither of us knows anything that is really worthwhile, but he thinks he has knowledge when he has not, while I, having no knowledge, do not think that I have. I seem, at any rate, to be a little wiser than he is on this point I do not think that I know what I do not know." »Socrates
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"These days people seek knowledge, not wisdom. knowledge is of the past, wisdom is of the future." »Vernon Cooper
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"Hire and promote first on the basis of integrity; second, motivation; third, capacity; fourth, understanding; fifth, knowledge; and last and least, experience. Without integrity, motivation is dangerous; without motivation, capacity is impotent; without capacity, understanding is limited; without understanding, knowledge is meaningless; without knowledge, experience is blind. Experience is easy to provide and quickly put to good use by people with all the other qualities." »Dee W. Hock
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"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world." »Albert Einstein
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"Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful." »Samuel Johnson
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