Prince
Musician, Singer, Songwriter
"When everyone recognizes Jehovah's name, then everyone will be happy because everyone will know what to do and how to do it."
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Albert Einstein
Physicist
"Any fool can know. The point is to understand."
George Bernard Shaw
Playwright, Critic
"Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance."
Joseph Stalin
Politician, Revolutionary
"Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas."
Albert Einstein
Physicist
"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."
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"I have no religion, and at times I wish all religions at the bottom of the sea. He is a weak ruler who needs religion to uphold his government; it is as if he would catch his people in a trap. My people are going to learn the principles of democracy, the dictates of truth and the teachings of science. Superstition must go. Let them worship as they will; every man can follow his own conscience, provided it does not interfere with sane reason or bid him against the liberty of his fellow-men."
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"The trouble with the world is not that people know too little; it's that they know so many things that just aren't so."
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"The most common ego identifications have to do with possessions, the work you do, social status and recognition, knowledge and education, physical appearance, special abilities, relationships, person and family history, belief systems, and often nationalistic, racial, religious, and other collective identifications. None of these is you."
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"Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice."
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"All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason."
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"Those who are right do not argue. Those who argue are not right."
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"There are things known and things unknown and in between are The Doors."
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"Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family."
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"The more I learn, the more I realize I don't know."
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"Any classification according to a singular identity polarizes people in a particular way, but if we take note of the fact that we have many different identities - related not just to religion but also to language, occupation and business, politics, class and poverty, and many others - we can see that the polarization of one can be resisted by a fuller picture. So knowledge and understanding are extremely important to fight against singular polarization."
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"Don't be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn't do what you do or think as you think or as fast. There was a time when you didn't know what you know today."
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"Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?"
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"Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge."
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"Human beings act in a great variety of irrational ways, but all of them seem to be capable, if given a fair chance, of making a reasonable choice in the light of available evidence. Democratic institutions can be made to work only if all concerned do their best to impart knowledge and to encourage rationality. But today, in the world's most powerful democracy, the politicians and the propagandists prefer to make nonsense of democratic procedures by appealing almost exclusively to the ignorance and irrationality of the electors."
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"I do not accept any absolute formulas for living. No preconceived code can see ahead to everything that can happen in a man's life. As we live, we grow and our beliefs change. They must change. So I think we should live with this constant discovery. We should be open to this adventure in heightened awareness of living. We should stake our whole existence on our willingness to explore and experience."
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"It is absurd for the Evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of nothing and then pretend that it is more thinkable that nothing should turn itself into everything."
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"Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too."
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"A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence."
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"If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion."
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"Of all the frictional resistances, the one that most retards human movement is ignorance, what Buddha called 'the greatest evil in the world.' The friction which results from ignorance ... can be reduced only by the spread of knowledge and the unification of the heterogeneous elements of humanity. No effort could be better spent."
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