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“We know enough to be sure that the scientific achievements of the next fifty years will be far greater, more rapid, and more surprising, than those we have already experienced. ... Wireless telephones and television, following naturally upon the their present path of development, would enable their owner to connect up to any room similarly equipped and hear and take part in the conversation as well as if he put his head in through the window.”

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Author:Winston Churchill

“But, in history, practical usefulness never determines the moral value of an achievement. Only the person who increases the knowledge humanity has about itself and enhances its creative consciousness permanently enriches humanity.”

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Author:Stefan Zweig

“Don't help me or serve me, but let me see it once, because I need it. Don't work for my happiness, my brothers — show me yours — show me that it is possible — show me your achievement — and the knowledge will give me courage for mine.”

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Author:Ayn Rand

“We achieve more than we know. We know more than we understand. We understand more than we can explain.”

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Author:Claude Bernard

“To eliminate the discrepancy between men's plans and the results achieved, a new approach is necessary. Morphological thinking suggests that this new approach cannot be realized through increased teaching of specialized knowledge. This morphological analysis suggests that the essential fact has been overlooked that every human is potentially a genius. Education and dissemination of knowledge must assume a form which allows each student to absorb whatever develops his own genius, lest he become frustrated. The same outlook applies to the genius of the peoples as a whole.”

“That our knowledge only illuminates a small corner of the Universe, that it is incomplete, approximate, tentative and merely probable need not concert us. It is genuine nevertheless. Physical science stands as one of the great achievements of the human spirit.”

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Author:Arthur David Ritchie

“Were I asked to define it, I should reply that archeology is that science which enables us to register and classify our knowledge of the sum of man's achievement in those arts and handicrafts whereby he has, in time past, signalized his passage from barbarism to civilization.”

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Author:Amelia B. Edwards

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

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Author:Stuart Wilde

“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

“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

“The present moment has always been available to spiritual seekers, but as long as you are seeking you are not available to the present moment. "Seeking" implies that you are looking to the future for some answer, or for some achievement, spiritual or otherwise. Everybody is in the seeking mode, seeking to add something to who they are, whether it be money, relationships, possessions, knowledge, status.. or spiritual attainment.”

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Author:Eckhart Tolle

“With equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of men. I have wished to know why the stars shine. And I have tried to apprehend the Pythagorean power by which number holds sway about the flux. A little of this, but not much, I have achieved.”

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Book:The Quotable Bertrand Russell

Source: The Quotable Bertrand Russell

“All of us perform better and more willingly when we know why we're doing what we have been told or asked to do.”

Knows Has Beens Motivation Knowledge Achievement Ambition

Book:Over the Top: Moving from Survival to Stability, from Stability to Success, from Success to Significance

Source: Over the Top: Moving from Survival to Stability, from Stability to Success, from Success to Significance

“To know the will of God is the greatest knowledge! To do the will of God is the greatest achievement.”

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Author:George W Truett