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“As long as man remains an inquiring animal, there can never be a complete unanimity in our fundamental beliefs. The more diverse our paths, the greater is likely to be the divergence of beliefs.”

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Author:Arthur Keith

“No man can know God unless God has taught him; that is to say, that without God, God cannot be known.”

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Author:Irenaeus of Lyons

“We know life is futile. A man who considers that his life is of very wonderful importance is awfully close to a padded cell.”

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Author:Clarence Darrow

“Second-rate knowledge, and middling talents, carry a man farther at courts, and in the busy part of the world, than superior knowledge and shining parts.”

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Book:The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author

Source: The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author

“I am not of the opinion generally entertained in this country [England], that man lives by Greek and Latin alone; that is, by knowing a great many words of two dead languages, which nobody living knows perfectly, and which are of no use in the common intercourse of life. Useful knowledge, in my opinion, consists of modern languages, history, and geography; some Latin may be thrown into the bargain, in compliance with custom, and for closet amusement.”

“Only the history of free peoples is worth our attention; the history of men under a despotism is merely a collection of anecdotes.”

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Author:Nicolas Chamfort

“I envy no man that knows more than myself, but pity them that know less.”

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Book:Religio Medici: A Letter to a Friend, Christian Morals, Urn-burial, and Other Papers

Source: Religio Medici: A Letter to a Friend, Christian Morals, Urn-burial, and Other Papers

“A man can be saved and not believe in the Doctrines of Grace...but he must be a very proud man. Unknown-but if you know who said it, please tell me You're born. You suffer. You die. Fortunately, there's a loophole.”

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Author:Will Graham

“Effective science began when it passed from the occasional amateur into the hands of men who made the winning of knowledge their special function or profession.”

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Author:William Wickenden

“Man is a strange animal, he doesn't like to read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it.”

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Author:Adlai Stevenson I

“There was a young man in Rome that was very like Augustus Caesar; Augustus took knowledge of it and sent for the man, and asked him "Was your mother never at Rome?" He answered "No Sir; but my father was."”

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Book:The works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England

Source: The works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England

“Let us suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper, void of all characters, without any ideas; how comes it to be furnished? Whence comes it by that vast store which the busy and boundless fancy of man has painted on it with an almost endless variety? Whence has it all the materials of reason and knowledge? To this I answer, in one word, from experience.”

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Author:John Locke

“If anyone removes (one of the) anxieties of this world from a believer, God will remove (one of the) anxieties from him on the Day of Resurrection; if one smoothes the way for one who is destitute, God will smooth the way for him in this world and the next; and if anyone conceals the faults of a Muslim, God will conceal his faults in this world and the next. God helps a man as long as he helps his brother. If anyone pursues a path in search of knowledge God will thereby make easy for him a path to paradise.”

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Author:Elijah Muhammad

“Some men covet knowledge out of a natural curiosity and inquisitive temper; some to entertain the mind with variety and delight; some for ornament and reputation; some for victory and contention; many for lucre and a livelihood; and but few for employing the Divine gift of reason to the use and benefit of mankind.”

Source: The Advancement of Learning

“Converse, converse, CONVERSE, with living men, face to face, mind to mind-that is one of the best sources of knowledge.”

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Book:The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster

Source: The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster

“Knowledge is a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.”

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Author:Francis Bacon

“First therefore let us seek the dignity of knowledge in the archetype or first platform, which is in the attributes and acts of God, as far as they are revealed to man and may be observed with sobriety; wherein we may not seek it by the name of Learning; for all Learning is Knowledge acquired, and all Knowledge in God is original: and therefore we must look for it by another name, that of Wisdom or Sapience, as the Scriptures call it.”

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Book:The works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England, in five volumes

Source: The works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England, in five volumes

“My praise shall be dedicated to the mind itself. The mind is the man, and the knowledge is the mind. A man is but what he knoweth. The mind is but an accident to knowledge, for knowledge is the double of that which is.”

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Book:The Works of Francis Bacon: Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Albans, and Lord High Chancellor of England

Source: The Works of Francis Bacon: Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Albans, and Lord High Chancellor of England

“In Philosophy, the contemplations of man do either penetrate unto God, or are circumferred to Nature, or are reflected and reverted upon himself. Out of which several inquiries there do arise three knowledges, Divine Philosophy, Natural Philosophy, and Human Philosophy or Humanity. For all things are marked and stamped with this triple character of the power of God, the difference of Nature and the use of Man.”

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Book:Philosophical works

Source: Philosophical works

“A girl becomes a wife with her eyes wide open. She knows that those sweetest words, 'I take thee to be my wedded husband,' really mean, 'I promise thee to cook three meals a day for 60 years; thee will I clean up after; thee will I talk to even when thou art not listening; thee will I worry about, cry over and take all manner of hurts from.”

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Author:Alan Beck

“A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.”

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Author:David Hume

“Yet still, there are those special secret moments in our lives, when we smile unexpectedly-when all our forces are resolved. A woman can often see these moments in us, better than a man, better than we ourselves, even. When we know these moments, when we smile, when we are not on guard at all-these are the moments when our most important forces show themselves; whatever it is you are doing at such a moment, hold on to it, repeat it-for that certain smile is the best knowledge that we ever have of what our hidden forces are, and where they lie, and how they can be loosed.”

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Book:The Timeless Way of Building

Source: The Timeless Way of Building

“If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?”

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Author:Thomas Huxley

“There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.”

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Author:Lee Iacocca

“If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.”

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Author:Francis Bacon

“Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.”

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Book:The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752

Source: The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752

“The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.”

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Author:Francis Bacon

“To what part of electrical science are we not indebted to Faraday? He has increased our knowledge of the hidden and unknown to such an extent, that all subsequent writers are compelled so frequently to mention his name and quote his papers, that the very repetition becomes monotonous. [How] humiliating it may be to acknowledge so great a share of successful investigation to one man.”

Source: Elements of Electro-metallurgy

“It is they [men of science] who hold the secret of the mysterious property of the mind by which error ministers to truth, and truth slowly but irrevocably prevails. Theirs is the logic of discovery, the demonstration of the advance of knowledge and the development of ideas, which as the earthly wants and passions of men remain almost unchanged, are the charter of progress, and the vital spark in history.”

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Book:Lectures on Modern History

Source: Lectures on Modern History

“Such instances of the almost infinite unpredictability of man are known to social scientists, but they are no more affected by them than the asylum inmate is by being told that he is not Napoleon.”

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Book:Science is a sacred cow

Source: Science is a sacred cow

“No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.”

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Author:John Locke

“Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing.”

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Author:Konrad Lorenz

“No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.”

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Author:J. Robert Oppenheimer

“The utmost extent of man's knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.”

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Book:Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical Fragments: Tending to Amuse the Fancy, and Inculcate Morality

Source: Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical Fragments: Tending to Amuse the Fancy, and Inculcate Morality

“A man only learns by two things; one is reading and the other is association with smarter people.”

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Author:Will Rogers

“A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.”

“If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.”

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Book:George Bernard Shaw: Collected Articles, Lectures, Essays and Letters: Thoughts and Studies from the Renowned Dramaturge and Author of Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Pygmalion, Arms and The Man, Saint Joan, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion

Source: George Bernard Shaw: Collected Articles, Lectures, Essays and Letters: Thoughts and Studies from the Renowned Dramaturge and Author of Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Pygmalion, Arms and The Man, Saint Joan, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion

“Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.”

“A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.”

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Author:Mark Twain

“'How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was 'By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.'”

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Author:John Abbott

“Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.”

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Author:Voltaire

“I keep six honest serving men (they taught me all i knew); Theirs names are What and Why and When And How And Where and Who.”

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Author:Rudyard Kipling

“You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.”

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Author:Dale Carnegie

“A man goes to knowledge as he goes to war: wide-awake, with fear, with respect, and with absolute assurance. Going to knowledge or going to war in any other manner is a mistake, and whoever makes it might never live to regret it”

Source: The Wheel Of Time: The Shamans Of Mexico Their Thoughts About Life De

“Herein lies the tragedy of the age: Not that men are poor, - all men know something of poverty. Not that men are wicked, - who is good? Not that men are ignorant, - what is truth? Nay, but that men know so little of men.”

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Author:W. E. B. Du Bois

“Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.”

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Book:The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac

Source: The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac

“...I feel most deeply that the whole subject is too profound for the human intellect. A dog might as well speculate on the mind of Newton.— Let each man hope & believe what he can.—”

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Book:The Correspondence of Charles Darwin:

Source: The Correspondence of Charles Darwin:

“I have had more trouble with myself than with any other man I have ever met.”

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Author:Dwight L. Moody

“I do not accept any absolute formulas for living. No preconceived code can see ahead to everything that can happen in a man's life. As we live, we grow and our beliefs change. They must change. So I think we should live with this constant discovery. We should be open to this adventure in heightened awareness of living. We should stake our whole existence on our willingness to explore and experience.”

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Author:Martin Buber

“the highest point a man can attain is not Knowledge, or Virtue, or Goodness, or Victory, but something even greater, more heroic and more despairing: Sacred Awe!”

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Book:Zorba the Greek

Source: Zorba the Greek