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 | "... knowledge emerges in (humans). Opposed to knowledge is the
spirit. The spirit is formless and is incomprehensible to mundane
thoughts.... Knowledge is active, mischievous, and intelligent. It changes
constantly. Spirit, on the other hand, is the master of humankind. Its
origin is in wu-chi.... It is never born and it never dies. The spirit
tends toward purity and stillness. Knowledge tends toward action and
disturbs the mind so that it cannot be still.... Recognize the difference
between the human mind and the mind of Tao. Do not mistake the human mind
for the mind of Tao, and knowledge for the spirit." | |
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| "... knowledge is hidden by selfish desire ? hidden by this
unquenchable fire for self-satisfaction." | |
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Bhagavad-Gita
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| "... you can not use your `prior knowledge" (e.g. that targets tend
to be smooth, that Occam"s razor usually works, etc.) to set P(f), without
making additional assumptions about the applicability of that `knowledge".
This is because that knowledge is ultimately based on only two things:
your experiences since birth, and your genome"s experiences in the several
billion years it"s been evolving." | |
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David Wolpert
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| "A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the
furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the
lumber-room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it." | |
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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| "Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man." | |
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Jean Baptiste Moliére
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| "As knowledge increases, wonder deepens." | |
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Charles Morgan
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| "Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than
ignorance." | |
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George Bernard Shaw
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| "Data is not information, Information is not knowledge, Knowledge is
not understanding, Understanding is not wisdom." | |
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Cliff Stoll
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| "Each excellent thing, once learned, serves for a measure of all
other knowledge." | |
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Sir Philip Sidney
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| "Every extension of knowledge arises from making the conscious the
unconscious." | |
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Friedrich Nietzsche
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| "He who knows not, and knows not that he knows not, is a fool. Shun
him. He who knows not, and knows that he knows not is simple. Teach him.
He who knows, and knows not that he knows, is asleep. Wake him. He who
knows, and knows that he knows is wise. Follow him." | |
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Lady Isabella Burton
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| "How sad would be November if we had no knowledge of the
spring!" | |
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Edwin Way Teale
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| "I am a great mayor; I am an upstanding Christian man; I am an
intelligent man; I am a deeply educated man; I am a humble man." | |
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Marion Barry
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| "I am only one, But still I am one. I cannot do everything, But still
I can do something. And because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse
to do the something I can do." | |
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Edward Everett Hale
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| "I am the man, I suffered, I was there." | |
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Walt Whitman
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| "If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that
we can solve them." | |
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Isaac Asimov
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| "If you have knowledge, let others light their candles At it." | |
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Thomas Fuller
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| "It is not enough to have knowledge, one must also apply it. It is
not enough to have wishes, one must also accomplish." | |
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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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| "Knowledge always desires increase; it is like fire, which must first
be kindled by some external agent, But which will afterwards propagate
itself." | |
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Samuel Johnson
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| "Knowledge and timber shouldn"t be much used till they are
seasoned." | |
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
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| "Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live
it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate
and teach it." | |
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Hermann Hesse
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| "Knowledge cannot be stolen from us. It cannot be bought or sold. We
may be poor, and the sheriff may come and sell our furniture, or drive
away our cow, or take our pet lamb, and leave us homeless and penniless;
but he cannot lay the law"s hand upon the jewelry of our minds." | |
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Elihu Burritt
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| "Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge ? broad deep
knowledge ? is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To
know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man?s progress is to feel the
great heart-throbs of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not
feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to
the harmonies of life." | |
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Helen Adams Keller
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| "Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know." | |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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| "Knowledge is more than equivalent to force." | |
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Dr. Samuel Johnson
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| "Knowledge is power if you know about the right person." | |
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Ethel Mumford
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| "Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the
soul." | |
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Will Durant
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| "Knowledge is the only fountain both of the love and the principles
of human liberty." | |
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Daniel Webster
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| "Knowledge is the only instrument of production that is not subject
to diminishing returns." | |
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J. M. Clarke
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| "Knowledge itself is power. ?Nam et ipsa scientia potestas
est." | |
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Francis Bacon
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| "Knowledge once gained casts a light beyond its own immediate
boundaries." | |
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John Tyndall
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| "Knowledge without know-how is sterile. We use the word "academic" in
a pejorative sense to identify this limitation." | |
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Myron Tribus
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| "Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the
people." | |
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John Adams
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| "Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the
other helps you make a life." | |
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Sandra Carey
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| "One part of knowledge consists in being ignorant of such things as
are not worthy to be known." | |
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Crates
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| "Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of
nonknowledge." | |
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Isaac Singer
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| "Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge." | |
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Kahlil Gibran
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| "The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of
true liberty." | |
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James Madison
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| "The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever
with the acquisition of it." | |
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Laurence Sterne
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| "The end of man is knowledge but there?s one thing he can?t know. He
can?t know whether knowledge will save him or kill him. He will be killed,
all right, but he can?t know whether he is killed because of the knowledge
which he has got or because of the knowledge which he hasn?t got and which
if he had it would save him." | |
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Robert Penn Warren
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| "The first and wisest of them all professed To know this only, that
he nothing knew." | |
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John Milton
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| "The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more
certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie
through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but
through striving after rational knowledge." | |
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Albert Einstein
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| "The improvement of the understanding is for two ends: first, for our
own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver and make out
that knowledge to others." | |
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John Locke
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| "The more extensive a man"s knowledge of what has been done, the
greater will be his power of knowing what to do." | |
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Benjamin Disraeli
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| "There is a way in which the collective knowledge of mankind
expresses itself, for the finite individual, through mere daily living ...
a way in which life itself is sheer knowing." | |
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Laurens Van der Post
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| "There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge." | |
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Bertrand Russell
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| "There"s a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves
and it becomes either good or sour inside." | |
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Pearl Mae Bailey
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| "They know enough who know how to learn." | |
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Henry Brooks Adams
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| "Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, And mankind the
vessel." | |
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August Hare
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| "Through the mythology of Einstein, the world blissfully regained the
image of knowledge reduced to a formula." | |
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Roland Barthes
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| "To be proud of knowledge is to be blind with light." | |
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Benjamin Franklin
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| "True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing." | |
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Socrates
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| "Universities are full of knowledge; the freshmen bring a little in
and the seniors take none away, and knowledge accumulates." | |
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Benjamin Jowett
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| "We are here and it is now. Further than that all human knowledge is
moonshine." | |
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Henry Louis Mencken
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| "We can be knowledgable with other men"s knowledge but we cannot be
wise with other men"s wisdom." | |
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
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| "We can be knowledgeable with other men"s knowledge, But we cannot be
wise with other men"s wisdom." | |
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Michel de Montaigne
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| "What men need is as much knowledge as they can organize for action;
give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and stupid
from undigested learning." | |
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Thomas Henry Huxley
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| "When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in
numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when
you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meager and
unsatisfactory kind. It may be the beginning of knowledge, but you have
scarcely, in your thoughts, advanced to the stage of Science." | |
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William Thomson
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| "Whoever acquires knowledge and does not practice it resembles him
who ploughs his land and leaves it unsown." | |
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Saadi
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| "Whoever acquires knowledge but does not practice it, is like one who
ploughs a field but does not sow it." | |
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Unknown
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| "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: ...
Isaiah 49:8." | |
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John H. Vandenberg
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