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A wise person decides slowly but abides by these decisions. ↗

— Arthur Ashe

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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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Knowledge and human power are synonymous. ↗

— Francis Bacon

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The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall. ↗

— Francis Bacon

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