"... I distrust manifest knowledge."
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"One and all We lend an ear-nay, Science takes thereto- Encourages the meanest who has racked Nature until he gains from her some fact, To state what truth is from his point of view, Mere pin-point though it be: since many such Conduce to make a whole, she bids our friend Come forward unabashed and haply lend His little life-experience to our much Of modern knowledge."
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"Of power does Man possess no particle: Of knowledge-just so much as show that still It ends in ignorance on every side."
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"For I say this is death and the sole death,- When a man's loss comes to him from his gain, Darkness from light, from knowledge ignorance, And lack of love from love made manifest."
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"But, in history, practical usefulness never determines the moral value of an achievement. Only the person who increases the knowledge humanity has about itself and enhances its creative consciousness permanently enriches humanity."
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"The leader is the one who climbs the tallest tree, surveys the entire situation, and yells, 'Wrong jungle!' ... Busy, efficient producers and managers often respond ... 'Shut up! We're making progress!'"
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"We won't know for a few years."
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"[Question: What do you think was the most important physics idea to emerge this year?] We won't know for a few years."
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"But if we laugh with derision, we will never understand. Human intellectual capacity has not altered for thousands of years so far as we can tell. If intelligent people invested intense energy in issues that now seem foolish to us, then the failure lies in our understanding of their world, not in their distorted perceptions."
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"To have knowledge and to know are two different things, and one is possible without the other."
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"In the scientific world I find just that disinterested devotion to great ends that I hope will spread at last through the entire range of human activity."
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"Knowledge-it excites prejudices to call it science-is advancing as irresistibly, as majestically, as remorselessly as the ocean moves in upon the shore."
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"True knowledge gives a moral standing and moral strength."
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"Knowledge of the tallest scientist or the greatest spiritualist is like a particle of dust."
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"Without devotion, action and knowledge are cold and dry and many even become shackles."
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"The dry knowledge of the three R's is not even now, it can never be, a permanent part of the villagers' life."
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"It is knowledge that ultimately gives salvation."
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"People are difficult to rule, because of their knowledge."
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"In ancient times, people said that imperfect moves to becoming perfect. Are these words vain? No! Truly, by gaining Unity you come to Perfection!"
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"Those who know are not learned. Those who are learned do not know."
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