#knowledge

The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future. ↗

— Stephen Ambrose

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Contention is inseparable from creating knowledge. It is not contention we should try to avoid, but discourses that attempt to suppress contention. ↗

— Joyce Appleby

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The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

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Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

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If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

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That the state of knowledge in any country will exert a directive influence on the general system of instruction adopted in it, is a principle too obvious to require investigation. ↗

— Charles Babbage

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Perhaps as good a classification as any of the main types is that of the three lusts distinguished by traditional Christianity - the lust of knowledge, the lust of sensation, and the lust of power. ↗

— Irving Babbitt

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The intellectual takes as a starting point his self and relates the world to his own sensibilities; the scientist accepts an existing field of knowledge and seeks to map out the unexplored terrain. ↗

— Daniel Bell

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The compartmentalization of knowledge, which is one of the characteristics of the mental and intellectual scene of the modern world, is not only reflected in modern education but is also caused by it. ↗

— Seyyed Hossein Nasr

#education

...hiding what you know is sometimes as important as knowing it... ↗

— Charles Duhigg

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