#knowledge

I don't have acknowledged preferences of characters. ↗

— Christian Bale

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We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that. ↗

— J. J. Abrams

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The passionate controversies of one era are viewed as sterile preoccupations by another, for knowledge alters what we seek as well as what we find. ↗

— Freda Adler

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The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future. ↗

— Stephen Ambrose

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Contention is inseparable from creating knowledge. It is not contention we should try to avoid, but discourses that attempt to suppress contention. ↗

— Joyce Appleby

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We can't have full knowledge all at once. We must start by believing; then afterwards we may be led on to master the evidence for ourselves. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

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Foreknowledge of the future makes it possible to manipulate both enemies and supporters. ↗

— Raymond Aron

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Now it is established in the sciences that no knowledge is acquired save through the study of its causes and beginnings, if it has had causes and beginnings; nor completed except by knowledge of its accidents and accompanying essentials. ↗

— Avicenna

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The great end of life is not knowledge but action. ↗

— Francis Bacon

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Knowledge and human power are synonymous. ↗

— Francis Bacon

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