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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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If all ideas have to be bought, then you have an intellectually regressive system that will assure you have a highly knowledgeable elite and an ignorant mass. ↗

— John Perry Barlow

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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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Since knowledge is but sorrow's spy, It is not safe to know. ↗

— William Davenant

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The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Wild Bill was anything but a quarrelsome man yet I have personal knowledge of at least half a dozen men whom he had at various times killed. ↗

— Buffalo Bill

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Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves. ↗

— Josh Billings

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You make knowledge relevant to life and you make it important for children to learn things that will really relate to things going on in their lives, and not abstract. ↗

— Talib Kweli

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In the present state of our knowledge, it would be useless to attempt to speculate on the remote cause of the electrical energy... its relation to chemical affinity is, however, sufficiently evident. May it not be identical with it, and an essential property of matter? ↗

— Humphry Davy

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