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Knowledge

1. "An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't."- Anatole France
   
   
2. "When you come to the edge of all the light you have known, and are about to step out into darkness, Faith is knowing one of two things will happen; There will be something to stand on, or you will be taught to fly." Richard Bach
   
   
3. Knowledge itself is power. F.Bacon.
   
   
4. "We know more and more about less and less, until we know everything about nothing."
   
   
5. "A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimensions." Alexander Pope
   
   
6. "It is easy to be a philosopher in academia, but it is very difficult to be a philosopher in life."Anton Checkov
   
   
7. "If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties." Bacon
   
   
8. "Education is not a form of entertainment, but a means of enpowering people to take control of their lives."
   
   
9. "The only sure thing is that nothing is for sure."
   
   
10. "Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing worth knowing can be taught." Oscar Wilde
    
    
11. To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research.
    
    
12. Education is what you get from reading the small print; experience is what you get from not reading it.
    
    
13. Often we need not so much to be taught as to be reminded. C. S. Lewis
    
    
14. Learning is a treasure which follows it's owner everywhere.
    
    
15. Philosophy begins when one learns to doubt - particularly to doubt one's cherished beliefs, one's dogmas, and one's axioms." Will Durant
    
    
16. That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way. Doris Lessing, The Four-Gated City
    
    
17. "I don't write books because I have answers. I write books because I have questions. What we are is the questions that we ask, not the answers that we provide. It's all about the process of self-examination. I think that's what the best writing always contains."- John Edgar Wideman