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Knowledge Quotes
"When we say we know what we are talking about, we mean that we know what we think about something, rather than knowing the facts"
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Ian McEwan
"Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life."
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Immanuel Kant
"Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play."
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Immanuel Kant
"The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty."
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James Madison
"Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives."
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James Madison
"Philosophy is common sense with big words."
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James Madison
"Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do."
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that."
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John Stuart Mill
"I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library"
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Jorge Luis Borges
"Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family"
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Kofi Annan
"Nothing in life is to be feared; it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less."
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Marie Curie
"We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time"
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T. S. Eliot
"You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture Just get people to stop reading them"
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Ray Bradbury
"The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries"
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Rene Descartes
"I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world."
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Richard Dawkins
"It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for acting"
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Simone de Beauvoir
"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge"
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Charles Darwin
"Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all."
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Abraham Lincoln
"Liberating education consists in acts of cognition not transferals of information"
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Paulo Freire
"Beware the man of a single book."
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Thomas Aquinas
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