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“The function of a nutrient is to become transmuted, not to leave unaltered traces.”
“He often said that knowledge is the brightest jewel in a queen’s crown. And if my mother was about, she would never fail to add, ‘when tempered by wisdom. Knowledge without comprehension is worse t...”
“The distinctive features of the world's civilisations are not simply and solely the giraffe and the city of Rome, as the children may perhaps have been led to imagine on the first evening, but also...”
“The religious school she went to, growing up, Ms. Wright said how all the girls had to wear a scarf tied to cover their ears at all times. Based on the biblical idea that the Virgin Mary became pre...”
“...where were answers to the truly deep questions? Religion promised those, though always in vague terms, while retreating from one line in the sand to the next. Don't look past this boundary, they...”
“The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.”
“Remember my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker”
“What transforms this world is — knowledge. Do you see what I mean? Nothing else can change anything in this world. Knowledge alone is capable of transforming the world, while at the same time leavi...”
“The power of human thought grows exponentially with the number of minds that share that thought.”
“That is just the way with some people. They get down on a thing when they don’t know nothing about it.”
“Knowledge grows exponentially. The more we know, the greater our ability to learn, and the faster we expand our knowledge base.”
“She said we all not only could know everything. We do. We just tell ourselves we don't to make it all bearable.”
“Valuing knowledge above all else results in a lust for power, and that leads men into dark and empty places.”
“Knowledge is a tool, and like all tools, its impact is in the hands of the user.”
“Either we shall find what it is we are seeking or at least we shall free ourselves from the persuasion that we know what we do not know.”
“Alas, how terrible is wisdomwhen it brings no profit to the man that's wise!This I knew well, but had forgotten it,else I would not have come here.”
“Someone said, 'The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did.' Precisely, and they are that which we know.”
“I can't protect you from knowledge.”
“Those who don't know must learn from those who do.”
“Darkness feeds on apathy.”
