"The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge."
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"The search of knowledge is an obligation laid on every Muslim."
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"Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility."
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"I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity."
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"If you have insight, you use your inner eye, your inner ear, to pierce to the heart of things, and have no need of intellectual knowledge."
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"It is a right, yes a duty, to search in cautious manner for the numbers, sizes, and weights, the norms for everything [God] has created. For He himself has let man take part in the knowledge of these things ... For these secrets are not of the kind whose research should be forbidden; rather they are set before our eyes like a mirror so that by examining them we observe to some extent the goodness and wisdom of the Creator."
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"You have to know the past to understand the present."
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"Our human knowledge is a candle burnt On a dim altar to a sun-vast Truth."
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"I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose."
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"Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven."
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"I am not blind to the shortcomings of our own people. I am not unaware that leaders betray, and sell out, and play false. But this knowledge does not outweigh the fact that my class, the working class, is exploited, driven, fought back with the weapon of starvation, with guns and with venal courts whenever they strike for conditions more human, more civilized for their children, and for their children's children."
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"Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom."
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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."
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"Those who seek knowledge, collect something every day. Those who seek the Way, let go of something every day."
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"In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance."
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"I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion."
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"All knowledge degenerates into probability."
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"Give, give, give - what is the point of having experience, knowledge or talent if I don't give it away? Of having stories if I don't tell them to others? Of having wealth if I don't share it? I don't intend to be cremated with any of it! It is in giving that I connect with others, with the world and with the divine."
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"Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend."
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"One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious."
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