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“They don't understand it. They're not old enough to know the first instinct of irritation should be avoided in order to keep an open mind.”
“We have not given science too big a place in our education, but we have made a perilous mistake in giving it too great a preponderance in method in every other branch of study.”
“...I like stories very much, the priest said. They help me understand myself better.”
“Maybe knowledge is as fundamental, or even more fundamental than [material] reality.”
“So we couldn't mingle with them, but we could eavesdrop. We got our knowledge that way--we caught it like germs.”
“There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride. They have yielded to the perennial temptation.”
“Nothing is born of nothing, least of all knowledge, modernity, or enlightened thought; progress is made in tiny surges, in successive laps, like an endless relay race. But there are links without w...”
“Each language is a unique repository of facts and knowledge about the world that we can ill afford to lose, or, at the least, facts and knowledge about some history and people that have their place...”
“Ive learned one thing-people who know the least anyways seem to know it the loudest.”
“A man of logic is a man of sin.”
“But it was Aldos pen that became his most forceful tool. He started a newsletter for rangers called the Carson Pine Cone. Aldo used it to scatter seeds of knowledge, encouragement, and enthusiasm. ...”
“Wolf's wool is the best wool, but it cannot be sheared, because the wolf will not comply. With knowledge as with wolves' surliness, the student studies voluntarily, refusing to be less than individ...”
“Sharing will enrich everyone with more knowledge.”
“You believe me wise because I taught you once, but I have not been north, as you have. You have seen (what) I have never seen...You flatter me by asking my opinion.”
“But God caused knowledge to be given to Adam and those with him, so that the kings of chaos and the underworld might not lord it over them." [--Jesus]”
“You cannot do anything with knowledge unless you know where it stops, and the costs of using it.”
“Knowing leads to caring.”
“the more things you know, or pretend to know, the more powerful you are. It doesnt matter if things are true. What counts, remember, is to possess a secret.”
“For it is not needful, to use a common proverb, that one should drink up the ocean who wishes to learn that its water is salt.”
“[A]ll knowledge goes through both stages, the annunciation out of noise into fact, and the disintegration back into noise again. The process involved was the making of increasingly finer distinctio...”
