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“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.”
“The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.”
“No one knows anything, really. It's all rented, or borrowed.”
“Valuing knowledge above all else results in a lust for power, and that leads men into dark and empty places.”
“Knowledge is a better weapon than a sword.”
“Knowledge is a tool, and like all tools, its impact is in the hands of the user.”
“Words define us,' Mom continued, as I struggled to make my clumsy marks look like her elegant script. 'We must protect our knowledge and pass it on whenever we can. If we are ever to become a socie...”
“New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.”
“Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.”
“Nobody is smarter than you are. And what if they are? What good is their understanding doing you?”
“These people have learned not from books, but in the fields, in the wood, on the river bank. Their teachers have been the birds themselves, when they sang to them, the sun when it left a glow of cr...”
“A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.”
“Know what you are talking about.”
“A teacher who cannot explain any abstract subject to a child does not himself thoroughly understand his subject; if he does not attempt to break down his knowledge to fit the child's mind, he does ...”
“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.”
“But need alone is not enough to set power free: there must be knowledge.”
“I am too much of a skeptic to deny the possibility of anything.”
“We all suffer under a curse, the curse that we know more than we can endure, and there is nothing, absolutely nothing we can do about the force and the lure of this knowledge.”
