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"Faith" is a fine invention
For gentlemen who see
But microscopes are prudent
In an emergency.
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It has always seemed strange to me that in our endless discussions about education so little stress is laid on the pleasure of becoming an educated person, the enormous interest it adds to life. To be able to be caught up into the world of thought -- that is to be educated.
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Knowledge is no guarantee of good behavior, but ignorance is a virtual guarantee of bad behavior.
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Not for Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities
Page 81
Published by Princeton University Press
, Princeton, NJ, USA
, 2010
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Contribution #4298
The most violent element in society is ignorance.
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Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.
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The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance; it is the illusion of knowledge.
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The sum of intelligence on the planet is a constant; the population is growing
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Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.
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The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.
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The greatest mystery is not that we have been flung at random between the profusion of matter and of the stars, but that within this prison we can draw from ourselves images powerful enough to deny our nothingness.
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Les Noyers de l’Altenburg
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Contribution #4096
Do not be small minded. Do not pray for gourds and pumpkins from God, when you should be asking for pure love and pure knowledge to dawn within every heart.
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Great Swan
by Lex Hixon
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Contribution #3960
Every transformation of humanity has rested upon deep stirrings and intuitions, whose rationalized expression takes the form of a new picture of the cosmos and the nature of the human.
Sane judgment abhors nothing so much as a picture perpetrated with no technical knowledge, although with plenty of care and diligence.
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If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it.
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I believe in evidence. I believe in observation, measurement, and reasoning, confirmed by independent observers. I'll believe anything, no matter how wild and ridiculous, if there is evidence for it. The wilder and more ridiculous something is, however, the firmer and more solid the evidence will have to be.
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Have the courage of your knowledge and experience. If you have formed a conclusion from the facts and if you know your judgment is sound, act on it - even though others may hesitate or differ. You are neither right nor wrong because the crowd disagrees with you. You are right because your data and reasoning are right.
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if you wish to avoid seeing a fool, you must first break your mirror
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No method nor discipline can supersede the necessity of being forever on the alert. What is a course of history, or philosophy, or poetry, or the most admirable routine of life, compared with the discipline of looking always at what is to be seen? Will you be a reader, a student merely, or a seer?
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Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
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Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music-the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself. -
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Ron Sims Daily Wisdom
Henry Miller
Viewed on December 7, 2009
Contribution #3661
We must all beware the very real and understandable human tendency to ignore or subvert facts, and findings of science, that discomfort us for reasons of ideology, politics, religion, or personal taste.
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It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.
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Is it not in the struggle to obtain knowledge that happiness exists? I am very ignorant, consequently the conditions of happiness are mine.
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Farthest North
by Fridtjof Nansen
Page 4
Published by Harper and Brothers
, London
, 1897
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Contribution #3489
You educate to some extent by what you say, more by what you do, and still more by who you are, but most of all by the things you love.
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A conclusion is simply where you stopped thinking.
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Contribution #3438
The more we learn, the more we question; institutions and beliefs, once immutable, become like a river, fluid, moving, changing.
Knowledge, Action and Devotion are complementary to each other.
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From the discourses of Rev. Pandurang Shastri Athavale
Contribution #3387
Action not backed by knowledge and knowledge not translatable into action, both can not stand the test of time.
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From discourses of Rev. Pandurang Shastri Athavale
Contribution #3385
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.
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All high truth is poetry. Take the results of science: they glow with beauty, cold and hard as are the methods of reaching them.
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Those who know do not speak; those who speak do not know.
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The Sayings of Lao-Tzu
The Sayings of Lao-Tzu
Paradoxes p 45
Version or Translation Lionel Giles translation
Published in Translation 1905
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Contribution #3210
3) Jesus said, "If those who lead you say, 'See, the Kingdom is in the sky,' then the birds of the sky will precede you. If they say to you, 'It is in the sea,' then the fish will precede you. Rather, the Kingdom is inside of you, and it is outside of you. When you come to know yourselves, then you will become known, and you will realize that it is you who are the sons of the living Father. But if you will not know yourselves, you dwell in poverty and it is you who are that poverty."
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Gnostic Gospels
Gospel of Thomas
Saying 3
Version or Translation Thomas O. Lambdin (Coptic version)
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Contribution #3206
The eye of the understanding is like the eye of the sense; for as you may see great objects through small crannies or holes, so you may see great axioms of nature through small and contemptible instances.
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Science rests on this particular article of faith: the universe contains regularities, and human beings, through sense experience and reason, are capable of finding candidates for these regularities, and then testing them to see how they mesh with experience.
A good world needs knowledge, kindliness, and courage; it does not need a regretful hankering after the past, or a fettering of the free intelligence by the words uttered long ago by ignorant men.
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In science, a theory is a rigorously tested statement of general principles that explains observable and recorded aspects of the world. A scientific theory therefore describes a higher level of understanding that ties "facts" together. A scientific theory stands until proven wrong -- it is never proven correct.
Properly conducted scientific studies . . . give us a pretty good idea of when something is likely to be correct. To me, pretty good is a linguistic statistic that falls somewhere in between more likely than not and beyond a reasonable doubt, et avoides the pitfalls arising from the belief in complete objectivity.
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On Being Certain
Page 176
Published by St. Martin's
, New York
, 2008
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Contribution #3181
In science, 'fact' can only mean confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.
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Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History
Page 161.
Published by Penguin
, London
, 1991
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Contribution #3177
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
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The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read.
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It is not enough to simply teach children to read; we have to give them something worth reading. Something that will stretch their imaginations--something that will help them make sense of their own lives and encourage them to reach out toward people whose lives are quite different from their own.
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Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.
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Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few are to be chewed and digested.
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Some people will lie, cheat, steal and back-stab to get ahead... and to think, all they have to do is READ!
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Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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The more you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.
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I Can Read With My Eyes Shut
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Contribution #3085
No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.
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Wear the old coat and buy the new book.
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Give me a man or woman who has read a thousand books and you give me an interesting companion. Give me a man or woman who has read perhaps three and you give me a dangerous enemy indeed.
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The Witching Hour
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Contribution #3081
History, we can confidently assert, is useful in the sense that art and music, poetry and flowers, religion and philosophy are useful. Without it -- as with these -- life would be poorer and meaner; without it we should be denied some of those intellectual and moral experiences which give meaning and richness to life. Surely it is no accident that the study of history has been the solace of many of the noblest minds of every generation.
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History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.
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Mathematics is the door and key to the sciences.
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Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better.
Physics is mathematical not because we know so much about the physical world, but because we know so little; it is only its mathematical properties that we can discover.
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We could use up two Eternities in learning all that is to be learned about our own world and the thousands of nations that have arisen and flourished and vanished from it. Mathematics alone would occupy me eight million years.
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The trouble with integers is that we have examined only the very small ones. Maybe all the exciting stuff happens at really big numbers, ones we can't even begin to think about in any very definite way. Our brains have evolved to get us out of the rain, find where the berries are, and keep us from getting killed. Our brains did not evolve to help us grasp really large numbers or to look at things in a hundred thousand dimensions.
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Go down deep enough into anything and you will find mathematics.
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The essence of mathematics is not to make simple things complicated, but to make complicated things simple.
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Math is radical!
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Doing what little one can to increase the general stock of knowledge is as respectable an object of life, as one can in any likelihood pursue.
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Man with all his noble qualities, with sympathy which feels for the most debased, with benevolence which extends not only to other men but to the humblest living creature, with his god-like intellect which has penetrated into the movements and constitution of the solar system- with all these exalted powers- Man still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.
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Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.
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The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box. But it is quite another thing to open the box.
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The medieval university looked backwards; it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge. The modern university looks forward, and is a factory of new knowledge.
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Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing.
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The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life. And see if I could not learn what it had to teach and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
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A good gardener starts as a good weeder.
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Contribution #2880
There is no harm in doubt and skepticism, for it is through these that new discoveries are made.
There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.
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
, New York
, 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 thirty, has wasted twenty 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
Version or Translation KJV
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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.
A man of clear ideas errs grievously if he imagines that whatever is seen confusedly does not exist; it belongs to him, when he meets with such a thing, to dispel the midst, and fix the outlines of the vague form which is looming through it.
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Bentham
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Contribution #1710
In our time, what is at issue is the very nature of man, the image we have of his limits and possibilities as a man. History is not yet done with its exploration of the limits and meanings of 'human nature.
Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth - more than ruin - more even than death... Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man.
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Thoughts are free and subject to no rule. On them rests the freedom of man, and they tower above the light of nature...create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy from which new arts flow.
Great men are they who see that spiritual thought is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world.
The mind is the man, and knowledge mind; a man is but what he knoweth.
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What is life but the angle of vision? A man is measured by the angle at which he looks at objects. What is life but what a man is thinking of all day? This is his fate and his employer. Knowing is the measure of the man. By how much we know, so we are.
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One must love the mirror in the face of truth, only if one loves the outlook of your inner compassion.
Guarding knowledge is not a good way to understand. Understanding means to throw away your knowledge. You have to be able to transcend your knowledge the way people climb a ladder. If you are on the fifth step of a ladder and think that you are very high, there is no hope for you to climb to the sixth.
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Being Peace
by Arnold Kotler
Page 58
Published by Parallax Press
, Berkeley, CA, USA
, 1996
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Contribution #1617
Reading without thinking will confuse you.
Thinking without reading will place you in danger.
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You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
We are slaves of what we don't know;
of what we know we are masters.
Whatever vice or weakness in ourselves we discover
and understand its cause and workings,
we overcome it by the very knowing.
The primary purpose of meditation is to become more conscious
and familiar with our inner life.
The ultimate purpose is to reach the source of life.
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Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to
change the world.
He who knows others is wise.
He who knows himself is enlightened.
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While scholars are comparing and contrasting theories, debating intellectual questions, and dividing humankind into categories, the world is changed by persons with faith, spirit, emotion, compassion, intuition, and irrational thinking.
The power of concentration is the only key to the treasure-house of knowledge.
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My heart is singing this morning. A miracle has happened! The light of understanding has shone upon my little pupil's mind, and behold, all things are changed!
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For My Teacher
by Compiled by Suzanne Siegel Zenkel
Published by Peter Pauper Press, Inc
, White Plains, NY
, 1994
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Contribution #974
To apply the golden rule adequately, we need knowledge and imagination. We need to know what effect our actions have on the lives of others. And we need to be able to imagine ourselves, vividly and accurately, in the other person's place on the receiving end of the action. With knowledge, imagination, and the golden rule, we can progress far in our moral thinking.
As knowledge increases, wonder deepens.
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Charles Morgan
Viewed on April 13, 2008
Contribution #643
Insight, I believe, refers to the depth of understanding that comes by setting experiences, yours and mine, familiar and exotic, new and old, side by side, learning by letting them speak to one another.
To understand reality is not the same as to know about outward events. It is to perceive the essential nature of things. The best-informed man is not necessarily the wisest. Indeed there is a danger that precisely in the multiplicity of his knowledge he will lose sight of what is essential. But on the other hand, knowledge of an apparently trivial detail quite often makes it possible to see into the depth of things. And so the wise man will seek to acquire the best possible knowledge about events, but always without becoming dependent upon this knowledge. To recognize the significant in the factual is wisdom.
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One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
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The intellectual knowledge of eternal things pertains to wisdom; the rational knowledge of temporal things, to science.
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St. Augustine
Viewed on April 10, 2008
Contribution #453
True science investigates and brings to human perception such truths and such knowledge as the people of a given time and society consider most important. Art transmits these truths from the region of perception to the region of emotion.
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Count Leo Tolstoy
Viewed on April 10, 2008
Contribution #449
"Lots of people talk to animals," said Pooh.
"Not that many listen though."
"That's the problem."
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Benjamin Hoff
Contribution #325
All schools, all colleges, have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal, valuable knowledge. The theological knowledge which they conceal cannot justly be regarded as less valuable than that which they reveal. That is, when a man is buying a basket of strawberries it can profit him to know that the bottom half of it is rotten.
1908, notebook
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Mark Twain
Viewed on April 6, 2008
Contribution #323
Imagination is more important than knowledge. For while knowledge defines all we currently know and understand, imagination points to all we might yet discover and create.
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Albert Einstein
Viewed on April 4, 2008
Contribution #322
When you lose, don't lose the lesson.
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Dalai Lama
Viewed on April 3, 2008
Contribution #321
When knowledge is scant or conflicting, folklore takes over.
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Paul Smith
Viewed on April 3, 2008
Contribution #320
What does knowledge look like in a person?
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