#knowledge

Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned. ↗

— John Holt

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Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true knowledge. ↗

— David Hume

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A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#behaving #beings #belief #death #doomed

There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

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Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#any #before #come #divided #itself

Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#advance #authority #every #great #involved

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

— Thomas Huxley

#dangerous #knowledge #little #man #much

The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, skepticism is the highest of duties; blind faith the one unpardonable sin. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

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The medieval university looked backwards; it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge. The modern university looks forward, and is a factory of new knowledge. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#factory #forward #knowledge #looked #looks

Confidence is ignorance. If you're feeling cocky, it's because there's something you don't know. ↗

— Eoin Colfer

#humor #ignorance #knowledge #humor