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The aim of education is the knowledge not of fact, but of values.
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These days people seek knowledge, not wisdom. Knowledge is of the past, wisdom is of the future.
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The great teachings unanimously emphasize that all the peace, wisdom, and joy in the universe are already within us; we don't
have to gain, develop, or attain them. We're like a child standing in a beautiful park with his eyes shut tight. We don't
need to imagine trees, flowers, deer, birds, and sky; we merely need to open our eyes and realize what is already here, who
we really are -- as soon as we quit pretending we're small or unholy.
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The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.
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Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power
which knowledge gives.
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The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
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Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
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Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.
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Marx, Darwin and Freud are the three most crashing bores of the Western World. Simplistic popularization of their ideas has
thrust our world into a mental straitjacket from which we can only escape by the most anarchic violence.
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All schools, all colleges, have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal, valuable knowledge. The theological knowledge
which they conceal cannot justly be regarded as less valuable than that which they reveal. That is, when a man is buying a
basket of strawberries it can profit him to know that the bottom half of it is rotten.
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We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
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Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever or whatever
abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing.
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It is a wise father that knows his own child.
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I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- myth is more potent than history -- dreams are more powerful than
facts -- hope always triumphs over experience -- laughter is the cure for grief -- love is stronger than death.
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I was determined to know beans. Walden
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The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
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A popular government without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy, or
perhaps both.
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Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.
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Great are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world.
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