#knowledge

The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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While knowledge may provide useful point of reference, it cannot become a force to guide the future. ↗

— Herbie Hancock

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The development of the telescope, together with increased knowledge of things, brought men to see that the earth is not what man had once thought it to be. ↗

— Joseph Franklin Rutherford

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Knowledge is not eating, and we cannot expect to devour and possess what we mean. Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace. ↗

— George Santayana

#cannot #devour #eating #embrace #expect

I respect knowledge of the psyche. I would be a therapist if I weren't an entertainer. ↗

— Jessica Simpson

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What we call 'evil' doesn't necessarily deserve any kind of respect or understanding, by any means; it just deserves an acknowledgement of its complexity so we can better understand it - so we can help prevent it. ↗

— Bryan Singer

#any #better #call #complexity #deserve

It is in his knowledge that man has found his greatness and his happiness, the high superiority which he holds over the other animals who inhabit the earth with him, and consequently no ignorance is probably without loss to him, no error without evil. ↗

— James Smithson

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The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder. ↗

— Ralph W. Sockman

#knowledge #larger #longer #wonder

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing. ↗

— Socrates

#exists #know #knowing #knowledge #nothing

To-day it appears as though it may well be altogether abolished in the future as it has to some extent been mitigated in the past by the unceasing, and as it now appears, unlimited ascent of man to knowledge, and through knowledge to physical power and dominion over Nature. ↗

— Frederick Soddy

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