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“Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.” — Charles Spurgeon

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“Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.” — Blaise Pascal

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“Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.” — Bertrand Russell

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“A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.” — Theodore Roosevelt

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“Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.” — Samuel Johnson

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“We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. The state in which we are is sinful, irrespective of guilt.” — Franz Kafka

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“Where knowledge ends, religion begins.” — Benjamin Disraeli

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“Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.” — Josh Billings

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“The only source of knowledge is experience.” — Albert Einstein

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“All men by nature desire knowledge.” — Aristotle

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“It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge.” — Stephen Hawking

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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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“Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.” — Ludwig van Beethoven

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“If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it except at a considerable cost.” — Michel Foucault

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“Do not share the knowledge with which you have been blessed with everyone in general, as you do with some people in particular and know that there are some men in whom Allah, may He he glorified, has placed hidden secrets, which they are forbidden to reveal.” — Ali ibn Abi Talib

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“The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.” — Doris Day

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“In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.” — J. Robert Oppenheimer

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“One of the interesting things about having little musical knowledge is that you generate surprising results sometimes you move to places you wouldn't if you knew better.” — Brian Eno

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“I agree completely with my son James when he says 'Internet is like electricity. The latter lights up everything, while the former lights up knowledge'.” — Kerry Packer

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“It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.” — Voltaire

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“There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.” — Lee Iacocca

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“Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.” — Carl Sagan

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“There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.” — Napoleon Hill

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“Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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