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The knowledge of God is the cause of things. For the knowledge of God is to all creatures what the knowledge of the artificer is to things made by his art. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

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Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

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Foreknowledge of the future makes it possible to manipulate both enemies and supporters. ↗

— Raymond Aron

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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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Now it is established in the sciences that no knowledge is acquired save through the study of its causes and beginnings, if it has had causes and beginnings; nor completed except by knowledge of its accidents and accompanying essentials. ↗

— Avicenna

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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 great end of life is not knowledge but action. ↗

— Francis Bacon

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