"Seeing is believing and believing is knowing and knowing beats unknowing and the unknown."
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"When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - you'll never forget it."
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"If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him."
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"This is the nature of genius, to be able to grasp the knowable even when no one else recognizes that it is present."
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"What you know, you know, what you don't know, you don't know. This is true wisdom."
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"Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness."
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"You know that you know nothing. Find out that knowledge."
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"I don't feel frightened by not knowing things, by being lost in the mysterious universe without any purpose - which is the way it really is, as far as I can tell. Possibly. It doesn't frighten me."
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"I don't think of my life as a career. I do stuff. I respond to stuff. That's not a career - it's a life!"
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"Of course, you don't have to have a degree to be rich. You just have to have ideas. Maybe having a degree sets you back, for it stuffs you into tick-tock [the daily grind of work], and perhaps that stifles your creative mind. But the fact is that many millionaires have few educational qualifications of any kind at all. However, they still have knowledge. The difference is, they have knowledge they can sell, and others have the "common knowledge" of tick-tock, which isn't worth as much, if anything at all."
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"Knowledge without devotion will be like a misfire."
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"When wisdom and knowledge appear, great pretense arises."
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"Those who know it do not speak about it. Those who speak about it do not know it."
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"True words seem false."
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"I think education is power. I think that being able to communicate with people is power. One of my main goals on the planet is to encourage people to empower themselves."
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"The partitions of knowledge are not like several lines that meet in one angle, and so touch not in a point; but are like branches of a tree, that meet in a stem, which hath a dimension and quantity of entireness and continuance, before it come to discontinue and break itself into arms and boughs."
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"The majority of people have no understanding of the things with which they daily meet, nor, when instructed, do they have any right knowledge of them, although to themselves they seem to have."
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"Our salvation lies not in knowing, but in creating!"
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"Why does man not see things? He is himself standing in the way: he conceals things."
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"I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House - with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone."
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