"Ignorance is a virus. Once it starts spreading it can only be cured by reason. For the sake of humanity, we must be that cure."
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"For me, I am driven by two main philosophies, know more today about the world than I knew yesterday. And along the way, lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you."
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"If you wish to know yourself observe how others act. If you wish to understand others look into your own heart."
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"O telescope, instrument of much knowledge, more precious than any sceptre!"
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"Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement."
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"The peak efficiency of knowledge and strategy is to make conflict unnecessary."
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"We never understand a thing so well,and make it our own, as when we have discovered it for ourselves."
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"Knowledge is only potential power."
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"Science is public, not private, knowledge."
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"If you give me rice, I'll eat today; if you teach me how to grow rice, I'll eat every day."
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"A good person is the bad person's teacher. A bad person is the good person's task."
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"No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience."
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"Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it."
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"Be a lifelong student. The more you learn, the more you earn and the more self-confidence you will have."
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"Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand."
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"If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience."
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"Knowledge is the source of Wealth. Applied to tasks we already know, it becomes Productivity. Applied to tasks that are new, it becomes Innovation."
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"There is far greater peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink."
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"Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk."
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"I am present at the sowing of the seed of the world. With a geometry of sunbeams, the soul lays the foundations of nature."
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