#knowledge

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination. ↗

— e. e. cummings

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Tonight I should like to thank all those who have shared my work and to acknowledge the debt that I owe to my wife whose encouragement to put research before all other things has been a great strength to me. ↗

— George Porter

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The knowledge that we have about what it is to be human that we have as a child is something we necessarily must lose. ↗

— Dennis Potter

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Reason is an action of the mind; knowledge is a possession of the mind; but faith is an attitude of the person. It means you are prepared to stake yourself on something being so. ↗

— Michael Ramsey

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Love, work, and knowledge are the wellsprings of our lives, they should also govern it. ↗

— Wilhelm Reich

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At a family's most difficult time, I want to make sure at a minimum that they have the very basic of comforts: the ability to grieve their loss privately and the knowledge that their country is grateful for their loved one's sacrifice and service. ↗

— Dave Reichert

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Our desires are guided by what we believe to be good or bad; our beliefs are directed by our knowledge; our knowledge, in turn, is again a manipulation of our desires. Our Will, during this inexorable revolution, serves as the force, increasing, decreasing, or at worst, maintaining the pace. ↗

— Raheel Farooq

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No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

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A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

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Listen to any musical phrase or rhythm, and grasp it as a whole, and you thereupon have present in you the image, so to speak, of the divine knowledge of the temporal order. ↗

— Josiah Royce

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