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• He is wise who knows the sources of knowledge - where it is written and where it is to be found.

  Archibald Alexander Hodge

  Inspirational, Education, Wise

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• An important verity about knowledge is that the brain works most effectively with consciously retained information. We more easily remember what we want to recall later. When we feed our fourteen billion brain cells with information that will enrich us and help others, we are really learning to Think Big.

  Benjamin Carson

  Learning, Helping Others, Thinking

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• I don't want to believe. I want to know.

  Carl Sagan

  Inspirational, Life, Religious

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Fortunately, some are born with spiritual immune systems that sooner or later give rejection to the illusory worldview grafted upon then from birth through social conditioning. They begin sensing that something is amiss, and start looking for answers. Inner knowledge and anomalous outer experiences show them a side of reality others are oblivious to, and so begins the journey of awakening. Each step of the journey is made by following the heart instead of the crowd, and by choosing knowledge over veils of ignorance.

  Henri Bergson

  Motivational, Spiritual, Philosophy

  "On Intuition vs. Intellect" by Henri Bergson, 1907.

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• All models are wrong, but some are useful.

  George E. P. Box

  Math, Science, Economic Models

  George E. P. Box, Norman R. Draper (2007). “Response Surfaces, Mixtures, and Ridge Analyses”, p.414, John Wiley & Sons

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• The ultimate goal of theology isn't knowledge, but worship. If our learning and knowledge of God do not lead to the joyful praise of God, we have failed. We learn only that we might laud, which is to say that theology without doxology is idolatry. The only theology worth studying is a theology that can be sung!

  Sam Storms

  God, Religious, Learning

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• Developing excellent COMMUNICATION skills is absolutely essential to effective leadership. The leader must be able to share knowledge and ideas to transmit a sense of urgency and enthusiasm to others. If a leader can't get a message across clearly and motivate others to act on it, then having a message doesn't even matter.

  Gil Amelio

  Motivational, Leadership, Communication

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• Knowledge of languages is the doorway to wisdom.

  Roger Bacon

  Inspirational, Education, Wisdom

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  He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

  Joseph Joubert

  Inspirational, Education, Learning

  "The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert". Book by Joseph Joubert, translated by Paul Auster, 2005.

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• There is nothing higher than reason.

  Immanuel Kant

  Reason, Categorical Imperative, Higher

  Immanuel Kant (1896). “Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason”

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• Almost all the greatest discoveries in astronomy have resulted from what we have elsewhere termed Residual Phenomena, of a qualitative or numerical kind, of such portions of the numerical or quantitative results of observation as remain outstanding and unaccounted for, after subducting and allowing for all that would result from the strict application of known principles.

  John Herschel

  Science, Discovery, Principles

  Outlines of Astronomy (p. 548)

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• The great man, that is, the man most imbued with the spirit of the time, is the impressionable man.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Spirit, He Man

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.92, Penguin

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• Readers are plentiful; thinkers are rare.

  Harriet Martineau

  Funny Inspirational, Reading, Library

  Harriet Martineau (1837). “Society in America”, p.176

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• At all times it has not been the age, but individuals alone, who have worked for knowledge. It was the age which put Socrates to death by poison, the age which burnt Huss. The ages have always remained alike.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Age, Poison, Individual

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “Maxims and Reflections”, p.93, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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  A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Beauty, Spiritual

  Letter of 1950, as quoted in "The New York Times", March 29, 1972.

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• The only man who knows just what he thinks at the present moment is the man who hasn't done any new thinking in the past ten years.

  Susan Glaspell

  Past, Men, Thinking

  Susan Glaspell, C. W. E. Bigsby (1987). “Plays by Susan Glaspell”, p.132, Cambridge University Press

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• Partial knowledge is more triumphant than complete knowledge; it takes things to be simpler than they are, and so makes its theory more popular and convincing.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Theory, Triumphant, Convincing

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.222, Courier Corporation

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• Education rears disciples, imitators, and routinists, not pioneers of new ideas and creative geniuses. The schools are not nurseries of progress and improvement, but conservatories of tradition and unvarying modes of thought.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Learning, School, Ideas

  Ludwig von Mises (1985). “Theory and History”, p.263, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• I imagine most of that stuff on the information highway is roadkill anyway.

  John Updike

  Education, Learning, Information

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• A love of flowers would beget early rising, industry, habits of close observation, and of reading. It would incline the mind to notice natural phenomena, and to reason upon them. It would occupy the mind with pure thoughts, and inspire a sweet and gentle enthusiasm; maintain simplicity of taste; and ... unfold in the heart an enlarged, unstraightened, ardent piety.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Education, Sweet, Reading

  Henry Ward Beecher (1859). “Plain and Pleasant Talk about Fruits, Flowers and Farming”, p.120

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• The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.

  Gerard De Nerval

  Ignorance, Evil, Tree

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• The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.

  Francis Bacon

  Fall, Angel, Power

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• For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics.

  Roger Bacon

  Math, World, Made

  Roger Bacon (2016). “Opus Majus, Volumes 1 and 2”, p.128, University of Pennsylvania Press

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• The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.

  James A. Baldwin

  Science, Government, Liberty

  "Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes of a Native Son". Book by James A. Baldwin, 1961.

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• The society based on production is only productive, not creative.

  Albert Camus

  Creativity, Ideas, Creative

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