"A Jedi uses the Force for knowledge and defense, never for attack."
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"I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way."
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"It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body."
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"One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning."
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"Even in such technical lines as engineering, about 15% of one's financial success is due one's technical knowledge and about 85% is due to skill in human engineering, to personality and the ability to lead people."
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"When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge."
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"I have flown twice over Mount St. Helens out on our West Coast. I'm not a scientist and I don't know the figures, but I have a suspicion that that one little mountain has probably released more sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere of the world than has been released in the last ten years of automobile driving or things of that kind that people are so concerned about."
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"It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others."
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"Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge."
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"An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself."
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"When all government ...in little as in great things... shall be drawn to Washington as the center of all power; it will render powerless the checks provided of one government on another, and will become as venal and oppressive as the government from which we separated."
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"It is not enough to know what is good: you must be able to do it."
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"If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation."
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"Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again."
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"Learning is an active process. We learn by doing.. Only knowledge that is used sticks in your mind."
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"We have no knowledge, that is, no general principles drawn from the contemplation of particular facts, but what has been built up by pleasure, and exists in us by pleasure alone. The Man of Science, the Chemist and Mathematician, whatever difficulties and disgusts they may have had to struggle with, know and feel this. However painful may be the objects with which the Anatomist's knowledge is connected, he feels that his knowledge is pleasure; and where he has no pleasure he has no knowledge."
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"At all times it has not been the age, but individuals alone, who have worked for knowledge. It was the age which put Socrates to death by poison, the age which burnt Huss. The ages have always remained alike."
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"You can't know too much, but you can say too much."
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"Reviewing what you have learned and learning anew, you are fit to be a teacher."
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"What the soul sees and has experienced, that it knows; the rest is appearance, prejudice and opinion."
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