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• All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

  Immanuel Kant

  Understanding, Perception, Reason

  "Critique of Pure Reason" by Immanuel Kant, (B 730), (1781; 1787).

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• He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.

  M. C. Escher

  Life, Discovery, Wandering Around

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• A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Life, Education

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• The true method of knowledge is experiment.

  William Blake

  Experience, Action, Method

  William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.1, Univ of California Press

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  It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.

  Epictetus

  Inspirational, Change, Inspiring

  "Golden Sayings of Epictetus". Book translated by Hastings Crossley, 2012.

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• The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.

  William Ralph Inge

  Education, Facts, Literacy

  Education (1917) ch. 2

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• Knowledge never springs from faith. It springs from doubt.

  Humayun Azad

  Inspirational, Faith, Spring

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• The most important single factor influencing learning is what the learner already knows. Ascertain this and teach him accordingly.

  David Ausubel

  Teacher, Learning, Important

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• The trouble with the world is not that people know too little; it's that they know so many things that just aren't so.

  Mark Twain

  People, World, Littles

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• The first element of change is awareness. You can’t change something unless you know it exists.

  T. Harv Eker

  Change, Knowing, Elements

  FaceBook post by T. Harv Eker from May 30, 2014

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• A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.

  Marcus Garvey

  Love, Friendship, Relationship

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• We are a people in more need of a little character than we are in need of an abundance of knowledge.

  Abdullah ibn Mubarak

  Islamic, Character, People

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• Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.

  Blaise Pascal

  Science, Littles, Ought

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• We know what we are, but know not what we may be.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Business, Good Life

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 4, sc. 5, l. [43]

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• We think so because all other people think so;
  Or because-or because-after all, we do think so;
  Or because we were told so, and think we must think so;
  Or because we once thought so, and think we still think so;
  Or because, having thought so, we think we will think so.

  Henry Sidgwick

  Thinking, People, Stills

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• In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.

  Henry Miller

  Witty, Ignorance, Horizon

  Henry Miller (1959). “The Henry Miller Reader”, p.262, New Directions Publishing

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• Knowledge has its end in itself, apart from any idea of life and propagation of the species.

  Remy de Gourmont

  Ideas, Ends, Species

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• Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

  Anton Chekhov

  Technology, Practice, Marketing

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• The cultivated person's first duty is to be always prepared to rewrite the encyclopedia.

  Umberto Eco

  Intelligent, People, Intelligence

  Umberto Eco (2013). “Serendipities: Language and Lunacy”, p.20, Columbia University Press

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• A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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  We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness. We are monkeys with money and guns.

  Tom Waits

  Happiness, Money, Confused

  "Tom Waits Interviews Tom Waits". www.npr.org. May 20, 2008.

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• Knowledge without devotion will be like a misfire.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Devotion

  Mahatma Gandhi (2010). “The Bhagavad Gita According to Gandhi”, p.19, North Atlantic Books

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• The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.

  Samuel Johnson

  Wisdom, Knowing, Next

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• Teach the children so it will not be necessary to teach the adults.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Teacher, Children

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• Knowledge is porportionate to being... You know in virtue of what you are.

  Aldous Huxley

  Virtue, Knows

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