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“Every climate scientist has his or her own views on some issues that differ from the mainstream in detail. But the broad findings of the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) have general support amongst scientists with relevant specialist expertise. The broad wisdom of the IPCC is strongly contested by a small number, and a small minority, of reputed climate scientists. It is not contested by the large majority of specialists, and by the leaders of the relevant learned academies in the countries of great scientific accomplishment.”

“To be truly ignorant, be content with your own knowledge.”

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Author:Zhuangzi

“If you torture the data long enough, it will confess.”

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Author:Ronald Coase

“Once we know something, we find it hard to imagine what it was like not to know it.”

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Book:Made to Stick: Why some ideas take hold and others come unstuck

Source: Made to Stick: Why some ideas take hold and others come unstuck

“If those who do not possess knowledge avoid the scholarly discussions, disagreement will end.”

“I am content in my later years. I have kept my good humor and take neither myself nor the next person seriously.”

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Book:The Ultimate Quotable Einstein

Source: The Ultimate Quotable Einstein

“One cannot enter don Juan's world intellectually, like a dilettante seeking fast and fleeting knowledge. Nor, in don Juan's world, can anything be verified absolutely. The only thing we can do is arrive at a state of increased awareness that allows us to perceive the world around us in a more inclusive manner.”

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Author:Carlos Castaneda

“It is the duty of all teachers, and of teachers of mathematics in particular, to expose their students to problems much more than to facts.”

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Book:Selecta: expository writing

Source: Selecta: expository writing

“I think in most jobs, you get better as you get older. You gain experience, you gain knowledge.”

Thinking Jobs Knowledge Gains Get Better

Author:Kristin Scott Thomas

“Science at best is not wisdom; it is knowledge. Wisdom is knowledge tempered with judgment.”

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Author:Peter Ritchie Calder

“Minds, like parachutes, work only when open.”

Mind Knowledge Parachutes

Author:James Dewar

“There is no substitute for knowledge.”

Knowledge Substitutes

Author:W. Edwards Deming

“Nobody spends somebody else's money as carefully as he spends his own. Nobody uses somebody else's resources as carefully as he uses his own. So if you want efficiency and effectiveness, if you want knowledge to be properly utilized, you have to do it through the means of private property.”

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Author:Milton Friedman

“Sometimes, we just don't know enough about what we are trying to achieve.”

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Author:Stuart Wilde

“The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."”

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Author:Isaac Asimov

“The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.”

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Book:The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World

Source: The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World

“The key to wisdom is this - constant and frequent questioning, for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth.”

Wisdom Knowledge Doubt Keys Constant Questioning

Author:Peter Abelard

“You are challenged to avoid mediocrity, acquire knowledge from the sages of antiquity, the achievements of the scientific present, and the prophets of the living God. Isaiah once spoke as follows, In an acceptable time have I heard thee, and in a day of salvation have I helped thee”

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Author:John H. Vandenberg

“A man that advances in spiritual and in temporal matters at the same time, minding to keep the spiritual first, will not let the temporal lead him; he will not place his heart upon his farm, his horses, or any possession that he has. He will place his desires in heaven, and will anchor his hope in that eternal soil; and his temporal affairs will come up as he advances in the knowledge of God.”

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Author:Jedediah M. Grant

“Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.”

Source: The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Preface. Formula fidei de ss. Trinitate. Nightly prayer. Notes on the book of common prayer; Hooker; Field; Donne; Henry More; Heinrichs; Hacket; Jeremy Taylor; The pilgrim's progress; John Smith. Letter to a godchild

“Do you remember how electrical currents and 'unseen waves' were laughed at? The knowledge about man is still in its infancy.”

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Author:Albert Einstein

“Those who have knowledge, don't predict. Those who predict, don't have knowledge.”

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Author:Laozi

“My pride and my power of vision were all that I owned when I started - and whatever I achieved, was achieved by means of them. Both are greater now. Now I have the knowledge of the superlative value I had missed: of my right to be proud of my vision. The rest is mine to reach.”

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Book:Atlas Shrugged

Source: Atlas Shrugged

“Without love the acquisition of knowledge only increases confusion and leads to self-destruction.”

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Author:Jiddu Krishnamurti

“In what light soever we regard the Bible, whether with reference to revelation, to history, or to morality, it is an invaluable and inexhaustible mine of knowledge and virtue.”

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Book:Letters of John Quincy Adams, to His Son, on the Bible and Its Teachings

Source: Letters of John Quincy Adams, to His Son, on the Bible and Its Teachings

“Spirituality means waking up. Most people, even though they don't know it, are asleep. They're born asleep, they live asleep, they marry in their sleep, they breed children in their sleep, they die in their sleep without ever waking up. They never understand the loveliness and the beauty of this thing that we call human existence.”

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Author:Anthony de Mello

“To use what has a boundary to pursue what is limitless is dangerous; with this knowledge, if we still go after knowledge, we will run into trouble. Do not do what is good in order to gain praise. If you do what is bad be sure to avoid the punishment. Follow the Middle Course, for this is the way to keep yourself together, to sustain your life, to care for your parents and to live for many years.”

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Author:Zhuangzi

“A great many people mistake opinions for thoughts.”

People Inspirational Decision Mistake Opinion Knowledge Great Men

Author:Herbert V. Prochnow

“The highest knowledge is to know that we are surrounded by mystery. Neither knowledge nor hope for the future can be the pivot of our life or determine its direction. It is intended to be solely determined by our allowing ourselves to be gripped by the ethical God, who reveals Himself in us, and by our yielding our will to His.”

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Author:Albert Schweitzer

“Your earning ability today is largely dependent upon your knowledge, skill and your ability to combine that knowledge and skill in such a way that you contribute value for which customers are going to pay.”

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Book:Earn What You're Really Worth: Maximize Your Income at Any Time in Any Market

Source: Earn What You're Really Worth: Maximize Your Income at Any Time in Any Market

“Vitally important for a young man or woman is, first, to realize the value of education and then to cultivate earnestly, aggressively, ceaselessly, the habit of self-education.”

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Book:Keys to Success

Source: Keys to Success

“There is no substitute for knowledge. To this day, I read three newspapers a day. It is impossible to read a paper without being exposed to ideas. And ideas - more than money - are the real currency for success.”

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Author:Eli Broad

“Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it.”

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Author:Doug Larson

“An amazing thing, the human brain. Capable of understanding incredibly complex and intricate concepts. Yet at times unable to recognize the obvious and simple.”

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Book:Getting Everything You Can Out of All You've Got: 21 Ways You Can Out-Think, Out-Perform, and Out-Earn the Competition

Source: Getting Everything You Can Out of All You've Got: 21 Ways You Can Out-Think, Out-Perform, and Out-Earn the Competition

“There is a profound difference between information and meaning.”

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Author:Warren G. Bennis

“Knowledge of languages is the doorway to wisdom.”

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Author:Roger Bacon

“We find it hard to apply the knowledge of ourselves to our judgment of others. The fact that we are never of one kind, that we never love without reservations and never hate with all our being cannot prevent us from seeing others as wholly black or white.”

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Author:Eric Hoffer

“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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Book:What is Art? (English Version, Abridged)

Source: What is Art? (English Version, Abridged)

“The character of a nurse is just as important as the knowledge he/she possesses.”

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Author:Carolyn Jarvis

“Sticking to it is the genius.”

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Author:Thomas A. Edison

“Has it ever occurred to you that there might be a difference between having an open mind and having holes in one's head?”

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Author:Richard Schultz

“For a person to build a rich and rewarding life for himself, there are certain qualities and bits of knowledge that he needs to acquire. But there are also things — harmful attitudes, superstitions, emotions — that he needs to chip away. A person needs to chip away everything that doesn't look like the person he or she most wants to become.”

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Author:Earl Nightingale

“Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.”

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Author:Charles Caleb Colton

“We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.”

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Book:Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

“I admit that thoughts influence the body.”

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Book:The Ultimate Quotable Einstein

Source: The Ultimate Quotable Einstein

“Knowledge never springs from faith. It springs from doubt.”

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Author:Humayun Azad

“By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.”

“Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.”

“If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.”

“When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.”

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Book:The Analects of Confucius In Plain and Simple English: BookCaps Study Guide

Source: The Analects of Confucius In Plain and Simple English: BookCaps Study Guide