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“The share we have in the knowledge of truth, such as it is, has not been acquired by our own powers. God has taught ushis wonderful secrets; our faith is not of our acquiring, it is purely the gift of another's bounty.”

God Secret Knowledge Wonderful Share Taught Bounty

Author:Michel de Montaigne

“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

“Suppose we were able to share meanings freely without a compulsive urge to impose our view or conform to those of others and without distortion and self-deception. Would this not constitute a real revolution in culture.”

Real Self Able Culture Views Knowledge Learning Share Revolution Management Deception Urges Conform Hype Self Deception Distortion

Book:Changing consciousness: exploring the hidden source of the social, political, and environmental crises facing our world

Source: Changing consciousness: exploring the hidden source of the social, political, and environmental crises facing our world

“The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.”

“Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.”

Way Wisdom Knowledge Learning Share Teaching Achieve Karma Buddhist Immortality Collaboration Social Change Tibetan Tibet Rules Of Life Sharing Knowledge

Author:Dalai Lama

“Developing excellent COMMUNICATION skills is absolutely essential to effective leadership. The leader must be able to share knowledge and ideas to transmit a sense of urgency and enthusiasm to others. If a leader can't get a message across clearly and motivate others to act on it, then having a message doesn't even matter.”

“Groups do not have experiences except insofar as all their members do. And there are no experiences... that all the members of a scientific community must share in the course of a [scientific] revolution. Revolutions should be described not in terms of group experience but in terms of the varied experiences of individual group members. Indeed, that variety itself turns out to play an essential role in the evolution of scientific knowledge.”

Source: Die Wissenschafts Philosophie Thomas S. Kuhns: Rekonstruktion und Grundlagenprobleme

“Science and religion...are friends, not foes, in the common quest for knowledge. Some people may find this surprising, for there's a feeling throughout our society that religious belief is outmoded, or downright impossible, in a scientific age. I don't agree. In fact, I'd go so far as to say that if people in this so-called 'scientific age' knew a bit more about science than many of them actually do, they'd find it easier to share my views.”

“The use of knowledge in our sex (beside the amusement of solitude) is to moderate the passions and learn to be contented with a small expense, which are the certain effects of a studious life and, it may be, preferable even to that fame which men have engrossed to themselves and will not suffer us to share.”

Men May Use Certain Suffering Passion Sex Knowledge Share Effects Fame Solitude Expenses Amusement Moderates Studious Use Of Knowledge

Book:The Works of the Right Honourable Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Including Her Correspondence, Poems, and Essays, Form Her Genuine Papers

Source: The Works of the Right Honourable Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Including Her Correspondence, Poems, and Essays, Form Her Genuine Papers

“There's no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance.”

Chance Knowledge Learning Share Management Significant Iphone

Author:Steve Ballmer