#knowledge

It has been a privilege to pursue knowledge for its own sake and to see how it might help mankind in more practical ways. ↗

— Paul Nurse

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Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves. ↗

— Thomas Hobbes

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Borrowing knowledge of reality from all sources, taking the best from every study, Science of Mind brings together the highest enlightenment of the ages. ↗

— Ernest Holmes

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The universal Mind contains all knowledge. It is the potential ultimate of all things. To it, all things are possible. ↗

— Ernest Holmes

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It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned. ↗

— John Holt

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Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true knowledge. ↗

— David Hume

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Anyone who thinks that the vice-president can take a position independent of the president of his administration simply has no knowledge of politics or government. You are his choice in a political marriage, and he expects your absolute loyalty. ↗

— Hubert H. Humphrey

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A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

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There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

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