"Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous."
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"A society that fears knowledge is a society that fears itself."
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"Read an hour every day in your chosen field. This works out to about one book per week, fifty books per year, and will guarantee your success."
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"... the greater part of the population is not very intelligent, dreads responsibility, and desires nothing better than to be told what to do. Provided the rulers do not interfere with its material comforts and its cherished beliefs, it is perfectly happy to let itself be ruled."
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"What we know is not capable of being otherwise; of things capable of being otherwise we do not know, when they have passed outsideour observation, whether they exist or not. Therefore the object of knowledge is of necessity. Therefore it is eternal; for things that are of necessity in the unqualified sense are all eternal; and things that are eternal are ungenerated and imperishable."
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"Nature has given us the seeds of knowledge, not knowledge itself."
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"Courage is the human virtue that counts most-courage to act on limited knowledge and insufficient evidence. That's all any of us have."
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"To be master of any branch of knowledge, you must master those which lie next to it, and thus to know anything you must know all."
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"Abandon knowledge and your worries are over."
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"Truly, only those who see illness as illness can avoid illness."
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"Don't ask the barber whether you need a haircut, and don't ask an academic if what he does is relevant."
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"The End of our Foundation is the knowledge of Causes; and secret motions of things; and the enlarging of the bounds of Human Empire, to the effecting of all things possible."
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"True science investigates and brings to human perception such truths and such knowledge as the people of a given time and society consider most important. Art transmits these truths from the region of perception to the region of emotion."
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"Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg, by the side of which more will be laid."
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"Information appears to stew out of me naturally, like the precious otter of roses out of the otter."
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"People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little. It is plain that an ignorant person thinks everything he does know important, and he tells it to everybody. But a well-educated man is not so ready to display his learning; he would have too much to say, and he sees that there is much more to be said, so he holds his peace."
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"Through seven figures come sensations for a man; there is hearing for sounds, sight for the visible, nostril for smell, tongue for pleasant or unpleasant tastes, mouth for speech, body for touch, passages outwards and inwards for hot or cold breath. Through these come knowledge or lack of it."
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"It might be said that all knowledge is linked to the essential forms of cruelty."
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"Sight is the least sensual of all the senses. And we strain ourselves to see, see, see--everything, everything through the eye, inone mode of objective curiosity."
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"To succeed in this new world, we will have to learn, first, who we are. Few people, even highly successful people, can answer the questions, Do you know what you're good at? Do you know what you need to learn so that you get the full benefit of your strengths? Few have even asked themselves these questions."
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