#knowledge

What would you consider a good job?" Answered as follows: "A good job is one in which I don't have to work, and get paid a lot of money." When I heard that I cheered and yelled and felt that he should be given an A+, for he had perfectly articulated the American dream of those who despise knowledge. What a politician that kid would have made. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

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We dream, we wake on a cold hillside, we pursue the dream again. In the beginning was the dream, and the work of disenchantment never ends. ↗

— Kim Stanley Robinson

#dreams #knowledge #learning #dreams

Follow your heart, but don't lose your mind along the way. ↗

— Zack W. Van

#follow-your-heart #knowledge #wisdom #dreams

The study of medicine consists on the one hand in storing up in the mind an enormous number of facts, which are simply memorized without any real knowledge of their foundations, and on the other hand in learning practical skills, which have to be acquired on the principle “Don’t think, act!” Thus it is that, of all the professionals, the medical man has the least opportunity of developing the function of thinking. ↗

— C.G. Jung

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nothing that is worth knowing can be taught ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#experience #knowledge #education

When you know better you do better. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#intelligence #knowledge #wisdom #education

Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#knowledge-wisdom #learning #school #science #wisdom

The greatest mistake of the movement has been trying to organize a sleeping people around specific goals. You have to wake the people up first, then you'll get action. ↗

— Malcolm X

#awareness #change #education #knowledge #revolution

Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind. ↗

— Plato

#education #knowledge #learning #teaching #education

Yeah. Floyd is his batman." His what?" Batman, like in the British army, each officer had a batman, a personal servant." You spend too much time reading, Spenser. You know more stuff that don't make you money than anybody I know. ↗

— Robert B. Parker

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