"If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me."
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"Knowledge is the antidote to fear,- Knowledge, Use and Reason, with its higher aids."
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"Knowledge leads to unity, but ignorance to diversity."
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"Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise."
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"What is all Knowledge too but recorded Experience, and a product of History; of which, therefore, Reasoning and Belief, no less than Action and Passion, are essential materials?"
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"Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority."
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"The saying that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing is, to my mind, a very dangerous adage. If knowledge is real and genuine, I do not believe that it is other than a very valuable posession, however infinitesimal its quantity may be. Indeed, if a little knowledge is dangerous, where is a man who has so much as to be out of danger?"
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"The truth is that even in the information age, information is not enough. if all we needed were ideas and positive thinking, then we all would have had ponies when we were kids and we would all be living our "dream life" now. Action is what unites every great success. Action is what produces results. Knowledge is only potential power until it comes into the hands of someone who knows how to get himself to take effective action. In fact, the literal definition of the word "power" is "the ability to act.""
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"Revival occurs as a group of people who, on the whole, think they already know the gospel discover they do not really or fully know it, and by embracing the gospel they cross over into living faith."
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"The one who does not honor the teacher and the one who does not honor the task, although ever so knowledgeable, they are confused."
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"Those who have knowledge, don't predict. Those who predict, don't have knowledge."
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"That so few understand me is why I am treasured."
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"Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind... The understanding can intuit nothing, the senses can think nothing. Only through their union can knowledge arise."
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"You sometimes speak of gravity as essential and inherent to matter. Pray do not ascribe that notion to me, for the cause of gravity is what I do not pretend to know, and therefore would take more time to consider of it."
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"Ipsa scientia potestas est. (Knowledge itself is power.)"
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"This desire of knowledge and the wonder which it hopes to satisfy are the driving power behind all the changes that we, with careless, question-begging inference, call progress."
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"The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side."
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"To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires."
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"He who speaks a bit of a foreign language has more delight in it than he who speaks it well; pleasure goes along with superficial knowledge."
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"It is not enough to have knowledge; one must apply it. It is not enough to have wishes; one must also accomplish it."
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