I find that I can have no enjoyment in the world but the continual drinking of knowledge. I find there is no worthy pursuit but the idea of doing some good for the world.
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If we don't understand phenomena, we are more likely to do things to harm ourselves and others.
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Ethics for the New Millenium
Page 36
Published by Riverhead Books
, New York
, 1999
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Contribution #2786
Systems thinking is a discipline for seeing wholes. It is a framework for seeing interrelationships rather than things, for seeing patterns of change rather than static "snapshots." It is a set of general principles -- distilled over the course of the twentieth century, spanning fields as diverse as the physical and social sciences, engineering, and management.... During the last thirty years, these tools have been applied to understand a wide range of corporate, urban, regional, economic, political, ecological, and even psychological systems. And systems thinking is a sensibility -- for the subtle interconnectedness that gives living systems their unique character.
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Today the network of relationships linking the human race to itself and to the rest of the biosphere is so complex that all aspects affect all others to an extraordinary degree. Someone should be studying the whole system, however crudely that has to be done, because no gluing together of partial studies of a complex nonlinear system can give a good idea of the behavior of the whole.
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If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.
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mailer from "The Skeptical Inquirer"
Contribution #2734
Science means following the questions where they lead, even if you don’t like what the results are telling you.
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The three greatest concerns of men are these: to make him who is
an enemy a friend, to make righteous him who is wicked, and to
make the ignorant learned.
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Shayast-La-Shayasts
20:6 GZ 32:1
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Contribution #2679
Such arts and sciences . . . as are productive of good results, and bring forth their fruit, and are conducive to the wellbeing and tranquillity of men have been, and will remain, acceptable before God.
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Epistle to the Son of the Wolf
P. 19
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Contribution #2668
Starving research and development is like eating the seed corn.
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Page B7
Detroit needs turnaround, not bailout
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Contribution #2667
Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.
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Education costs money, but then so does ignorance.
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Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.
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July 12, 1880
Contribution #2635
Make your books your companions.
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Talmud
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Contribution #2624
When you teach your son, you teach your son's son.
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Talmud
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Contribution #2622
Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. Wikis give us a place where anyone who is kind, thoughtful and intelligent can come and join us in building a better and more rational world.
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.
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We can learn from history how past generations thought and acted, how they responded to the demands of their time and how they solved their problems. We can learn by analogy, not by example, for our circumstances will always be different than theirs were. The main thing history can teach us is that human actions have consequences and that certain choices, once made, cannot be undone. They foreclose the possibility of making other choices and thus they determine future events.
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I am comforted by life's stability, by earth's unchangeableness. What has seemed new and frightening assumes its place in the unfolding of knowledge. It is good to know our universe. What is new is only new to us.
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Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in. That everyone may receive at least a moderate education appears to be an objective of vital importance.
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The more a man knows, the more willing he is to learn--the less a man knows, the more positive he is that he knows everything.
God has bestowed upon you intelligence and knowledge. Do not extinguish the lamp of Divine Grace and do not let the candle of wisdom die out in the darkness of lust and error. For a wise man approaches with his torch to light up the path of mankind.
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The Voice of the Master
by trans Anthony R. Ferris
Page 62
Published by Citadel Press
, New York
, 1958
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Contribution #2145
Knowledge and understanding are life's faithful companions who will never prove untrue to you. For knowledge is your crown, and understanding your staff; and when they are with you, you can possess no greater treasures.
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The Voice of the Master
by trans. Anthony R. Ferris
Page 62
Published by Citadel Press
, New York
, 1958
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Contribution #2143
Learning is the only wealth tyrants cannot despoil. Only death can dim the lamp of knowledge that is within you. The true wealth of a nation lies not in its gold or silver but in its learning, wisdom, and in the uprightness of its sons.
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The Voice of the Master
by trans. Anthony R. Ferris
Page 61
Published by Citadel Press
, New York
, 1958
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Contribution #2142
A man's merit lies in his knowledge and in his deeds, not in his color, faith, race, or descent. For remember, my friend, the son of a shepherd who possesses knowledge is of greater worth to a nation than the heir to the throne, if he be ignorant. Knowledge is your true patent of nobility, no matter who your father or what your race may be.
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The Voice of the Master
by trans Anthony R. Ferris
Page 61
Published by Citadel Press
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, 1958
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Contribution #2141
Reason without learning is like the untilled soil, or like the human body that lacks nourishment.
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The Voice of the Master
by Trans. Anthony R. Ferris
Page 55
Published by Citadel Press
, New York
, 1954
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Contribution #2135
A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimension.
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One of the deepest and strangest of all human moods is the mood which will suddenly strike us perhaps in a garden at night, or deep in sloping meadows, the feeling that every flower and leaf has just uttered something stupendously direct and important, and that we have by a prodigy of imbecility not heard or understood it. There is a certain poetic value in this sense of having missed the full meaning of things. There is beauty, not only in wisdom, but in this dazed and dramatic ignorance.
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A man who sees the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty,
has wasted thirty years of his life.
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Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.
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Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.
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Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.
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Through wisdom is an house builded; and by understanding it is established:
And by knowledge shall the chambers be filled with all precious and pleasant riches.
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Bible
Proverbs
24:3-4
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Contribution #1984
Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know -- and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance. It is better to know -- even if the knowledge endures only for the moment that comes before destruction -- than to gain eternal life at the price of a dull and swinish lack of comprehension of a universe that swirls unseen before us in all its wonder. That was the choice of Achilles, and it is mine, too.
We must now surrender to the obligation to understand and to care. We must surrender ourselves to becoming conscious, thinking members of the human race. We must put down the temptation to powerlessness and surrender to the questions of the moment.
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No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker with no past at my back.
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Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
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Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
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The root-word "buddha" means to wake up, to know, to understand; and he or she who wakes up and understands is call a Buddha. It is as simple as that. The capacity to wake up, to understand, and to love is called Buddha nature.
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Contribution #1854
Ideas often have results that are the opposite of those their authors anticipated as consequences are rarely those expected or hoped for by the original thinkers. . . . Yet the cure of bad or misapplied ideas is not the refutation of ideas and thinkers but better and corrected ideas.
Only the educated are free.
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Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate, no despotism can enslave. At home, a friend, abroad an introduction. In solitude, a solace, and in society, an ornament. It hastens vice, it guides virtue; it gives, at once, grace and government to genius. Without it, what is man? A splendid slave, a reasoning savage.
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Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty & dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.
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If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
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Nothing in the world is more dangerous
than a sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
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Strength and Love
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Contribution #1760
The essence of education is not to stuff you full of facts, but to help you discover your uniqueness, to teach you how to develop it, and then show you how to give it away.
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If our knowledge is, as I believe, only an island in an infinite sea of ignorance, how can we in our short lifetime find satisfaction in exploring our little island? How can we persuade ourselves to be exhilarated by our meager knowledge and yet not be discouraged by the ocean vistas?
History is valuable, to begin with, because it is true; and this, though not the whole of its value, is the foundation and condition of all the rest. That all knowledge, as such, is in some degree good, would appear to be at least probable; and the knowledge of every historical fact possesses this element of goodness, even if it posses no other.
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The Independent Review?
"On History"
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Contribution #1729
Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education.
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Essays on Education
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Contribution #1717
Three real teachers in a lifetime is the very best of luck. I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. My three had these things in common. They all loved what they were doing. They did not tell - they catalyzed a burning desire to know. Under their influence, the horizons sprung wide and fear went away and the unknown became knowable. But most important of all, the truth, that dangerous stuff, became beautiful and precious.
What does knowledge look like in a person?
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