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The universal Mind contains all knowledge. It is the potential ultimate of all things. To it, all things are possible.
– Ernest Holmes
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The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and one's knowledge of human life.
– Ralph Ellison
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The truth is often terrifying, which I think is one of the motifs of Larry and Andrew's cinema. The cost of knowledge is an important theme. In the second and third films, they explore the consequences of Neo's choice to know the truth. It's a beautiful, beautiful story.
– Keanu Reeves
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The true nature of soul is right knowledge, right faith and right conduct. The soul, so long as it is subject to transmigration, is undergoing evolution and involution.
– Virchand Gandhi
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The true method of knowledge is experiment.
– William Blake
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The thing with film and theater is that you always know the story so you can play certain cues in each scene with the knowledge that you know where the story's going to end and how it's going to go. But on television nobody knows what's going to happen, even the writers.
– Alan Cumming
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The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.
– Marcus Tullius Cicero
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The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and take nobody's word about them.
– Henry Bolingbroke
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The seat of knowledge is in the head of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right.
– William Hazlitt
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The satirist is prevented by repulsion from gaining a better knowledge of the world he is attracted to, yet he is forced by attraction to concern himself with the world that repels him.
– Italo Calvino
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The role of the teacher is to create the conditions for invention rather than provide ready-made knowledge.
– Seymour Papert
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The real difference between a man's scientific judgments about himself and the judgment of others about him is he has added sources of knowledge.
– Edward Thorndike
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The properties which differentiate living matter from any kind of inorganic imitation may be instinctively felt, but can hardly be formulated without expert knowledge.
– Oliver Joseph Lodge
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The presentations and conceptions of the average man of the world are formed and dominated, not by the full and pure desire for knowledge as an end in itself, but by the struggle to adapt himself favourably to the conditions of life.
– Ernst Mach
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The point is that knowledge of God is not prohibited under the First Amendment.
– Roy Moore
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The ordinary American - as far as I can tell - knows so much less than he did fifty years ago and has such poor work habits compared with fifty years ago that the average multiplicand of knowledge/capabilities is a much smaller number than it was in 1961.
– Ben Stein
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The object of all the former voyages to the South Seas undertaken by the command of his present majesty, has been the advancement of science and the increase of knowledge.
– William Bligh
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The new industries are brainy industries and so-called knowledge workers tend to like to be near other people who are the same. Think of the City of Hollywood. People cluster. This means you have winning regions, such as London and Cambridge, and losing regions. The people who want to be top lawyers in Sunderland are hoovered up by London.
– Evan Davis
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The most important thing I learned as a foreign correspondent in about 80 countries is that it takes a very shallow knowledge of history to think that there are solutions to most problems.
– Robert D. Kaplan
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The most important seed I can sow in this life is my children, and the love and knowledge that I can bestow upon them and the help I can give them.
– Steven Seagal
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The monopoly of science in the realm of knowledge explains why evolutionary biologists do not find it meaningful to address the question whether the Darwinian theory is true.
– Phillip E. Johnson
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The minuses of celebrity include having to live with security and the knowledge that you may be stalked.
– Enya
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The mathematical facts worthy of being studied are those which, by their analogy with other facts, are capable of leading us to the knowledge of a physical law.
– Henri Poincare
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The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
– Friedrich Nietzsche
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The library is seen as a force for self improvement and the pursuit of knowledge. I fear that in many cases this is no longer true, if it ever was.
– John Redwood
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The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.
– Ralph W. Sockman
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The knowledge that there is a part of the psychic functions that are out of conscious reach, we did not need to wait for Freud to know this!
– Jacques Lacan
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The knowledge that we have about what it is to be human that we have as a child is something we necessarily must lose.
– Dennis Potter
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The knowledge of the ancient languages is mainly a luxury.
– John Bright
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The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes.
– Avicenna
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The knowledge and understanding of the world which science gives us and the magnificent opportunity which it extends to us to control and use the world for the extension of our pleasure in it has never been greater than it now is.
– Polykarp Kusch
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The knowledge I have now is not the knowledge I had then.
– Stokely Carmichael
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The intercourse between the Mediterranean and the North or between the Atlantic and Central Europe was never purely economic or political it also meant the exchange of knowledge and ideas and the influence of social institutions and artistic and literary forms.
– Christopher Dawson
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The increased global linkages promote economic growth in the world through two key mechanisms: the division of labor and the international spillovers of knowledge.
– Toshihiko Fukui
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The increase of scientific knowledge lies not only in the occasional milestones of science, but in the efforts of the very large body of men who with love and devotion observe and study nature.
– Polykarp Kusch
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The implications of these considerations justify the statement that all empirically verifiable knowledge even the commonsense knowledge of everyday life - involves implicitly, if not explicitly, systematic theory in this sense.
– Talcott Parsons
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The idea of trying to create things that last - forever knowledge - has guided my work for a long time now.
– Edward Tufte
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The hypothesis may be put forward, to be tested by the s subsequent investigation, that this development has been in large part a matter of the reciprocal interaction of new factual insights and knowledge on the one hand with changes in the theoretical system on the other.
– Talcott Parsons
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The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy.
– Irving Babbitt
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The historical development of the work of anthropologists seems to single out clearly a domain of knowledge that heretofore has not been treated by any other science.
– Franz Boas
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The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.
– Georg C. Lichtenberg
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The greatest sin is judgment without knowledge.
– Kelsey Grammer
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The greater the step forward in knowledge, the greater is the one taken backward in search of wisdom.
– Stephen Gardiner
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The goal of NIH research is to acquire new knowledge to help prevent, detect, diagnose, and treat disease and disability, from the rarest genetic disorder to the common cold.
– Ike Skelton
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The general knowledge of time on the island depends, curiously enough, on the direction of the wind.
– John Millington Synge
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The future of publishing is about having connections to readers and the knowledge of what those readers want.
– Seth Godin
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The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.
– Arthur Schopenhauer
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The function of the politician, therefore, is one of continuous watchfulness and activity, and he must have intimate knowledge of details if he would work out grand results.
– John George Nicolay
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The frontiers of knowledge in the various fields of our subject are expanding at such a rate that, work as hard as one can, one finds oneself further and further away from an understanding of the whole.
– James Meade
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The Founders believed liberty came directly from God. With their knowledge of Scripture, they knew each child was made in the image of God. That is why everyone had dignity, value and worth.
– Gary Bauer
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The foundation of our religion is a basis of fact - the fact of the birth, ministry, miracles, death, resurrection by the Evangelists as having actually occurred, within their own personal knowledge.
– Simon Greenleaf
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The first step in a person's salvation is knowledge of their sin.
– Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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The existence of inherent limits of experience in no way settles the question about the subordination of facts of the human world to our knowledge of matter.
– Wilhelm Dilthey
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The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
– Vince Lombardi
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The development of the telescope, together with increased knowledge of things, brought men to see that the earth is not what man had once thought it to be.
– Joseph Franklin Rutherford
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The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.
– Laurence Sterne
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The deductive method is the mode of using knowledge, and the inductive method the mode of acquiring it.
– Henry Mayhew
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The Communist Party said that I must finish my studies because after the revolution in Germany people would be required with technical knowledge to take part in the building of the Communist Germany.
– Klaus Fuchs
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The benefit of the radio is, something beyond your realm of knowledge can surprise you, can enter your realm of knowledge.
– Esperanza Spalding
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The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.
– Frank Herbert
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The auditory perception is not sufficient for our knowledge of the world it does not have vastness.
– Robert Delaunay
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The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.
– Thomas Berger
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The accumulation of cultural capital - the acquisition of knowledge - is the key to social mobility.
– Michael Gove
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The ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained.
– David Bohm
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That's how easy baseball was for me. I'm not trying to brag or anything, but I had the knowledge before I became a professional baseball player to do all these things and know what each guy would hit.
– Willie Mays
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That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.
– Charles Caleb Colton
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That was really so upsetting when you are trying to pass on some very serious knowledge and be basically, treated worse than a student coming off the street because his father pays the tuition. Come on. Give me a break. This is no school. This is a joke.
– Miroslav Vitous
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That the state of knowledge in any country will exert a directive influence on the general system of instruction adopted in it, is a principle too obvious to require investigation.
– Charles Babbage
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That test should not be about ratings. What should weigh is the knowledge that a public broadcaster delivers programmes that matter.
– Jonathan Dimbleby
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That knowledge which is popular is not scientific.
– Maria Mitchell
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That free will was demonstrated in the placing of temptation before man with the command not to eat of the fruit of the tree which would give him a knowledge of good and evil, with the disturbing moral conflict to which that awareness would give rise.
– Kenneth Scott Latourette
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Technical knowledge has now become an integral aspect of the Iranian psyche.
– Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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Take the decision in early March to arrest Muqtada al-Sadr. It was made apparently without knowledge or understanding of the nature of his movement or how widespread it is.
– Juan Cole
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Surely, if knowledge is valuable, it can never be good policy in a country far wealthier than Tuscany, to allow a genius like Mr. Dalton's, to be employed in the drudgery of elementary instruction.
– Charles Babbage
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So no one should rely on television either for their knowledge of music or for news. There's just more going on. It's an adjunct to the written word, which I think is still the most important thing.
– Kurt Loder
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So long as these kinds of inequalities persist, all of us who are given expensive educations have to live with the knowledge that our victories are contaminated because the game has been rigged to our advantage.
– Jonathan Kozol
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So I'd be quite happy to have a three-hour Lincoln-Douglas-style debate with Barack Obama. I'd let him use a teleprompter. I'll just rely on knowledge. We'll do fine.
– Newt Gingrich
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So I think it is common knowledge that Hitchcock had fantasies or whatever you want to call them about his leading ladies.
– Tippi Hedren
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Since ancient times, people from throughout Asia have brought to Japan their talents, knowledge and energy, helping to lay the basis for Japan's existence as a country.
– Daisaku Ikeda
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Sin, guilt, neurosis they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.
– Henry Miller
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Shakespeare also introduces the supernatural into some of his tragedies he introduces ghosts, and witches who have supernatural knowledge.
– Andrew Coyle Bradley
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Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge.
– Stephen Hawking
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Scientific discovery and scientific knowledge have been achieved only by those who have gone in pursuit of it without any practical purpose whatsoever in view.
– Max Planck
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Scientific knowledge is a kind of discourse.
– Jean-Francois Lyotard
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Scientific knowledge is in perpetual evolution it finds itself changed from one day to the next.
– Jean Piaget
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Scientia is knowledge. It is only in the popular mind that it is equated with facts.
– John Charles Polanyi
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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
– Immanuel Kant
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Science is organized knowledge.
– Herbert Spencer
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Science is knowledge arranged and classified according to truth, facts, and the general laws of nature.
– Luther Burbank
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Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
– Carl Sagan
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Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for comprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an instrument for acquiring specialized knowledge.
– Alexis Carrel
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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
– Will Durant
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Science consists exactly of those forms of knowledge that can be verified and duplicated by anybody.
– Seth Lloyd
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Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true knowledge.
– David Hume
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Sane judgment abhors nothing so much as a picture perpetrated with no technical knowledge, although with plenty of care and diligence.
– Albrecht Durer
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Research is creating new knowledge.
– Neil Armstrong
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Religious speech is extreme, emotional, and motivational. It is anti-literal, relying on metaphor, allusion, and other rhetorical devices, and it assumes knowledge within a community of believers.
– Amy Waldman
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Real-life people are often the hardest to play, people that you recreate who have actually lived, because you have to live up to people's knowledge of those characters.
– Derek Jacobi
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Readership was high, and very attentive. It was people's only source of knowledge about the world.
– Ryszard Kapuscinski
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Radical constructivism, thus, is radical because it breaks with convention and develops a theory of knowledge in which knowledge does not reflect an 'objective' ontological reality.
– Paul Watzlawick
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