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Research is creating new knowledge.
Neil Armstrong

The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.
William S. Burroughs

Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
William S. Burroughs

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

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

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

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

I gained direct knowledge of the life of the poor in big towns: I have lived the narrowing mechanism of its conditioning and feared it.
Ella Maillart

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
Isaac Asimov

There was never a nation great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help.
Charles Dudley Warner


If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
Isaac Asimov

Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.
Isaac Asimov

True, some land was bought by a few Cabinet Ministers. They bought the land. No minister, to my knowledge acquired land which was meant for resettlement.
Robert Mugabe

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
Samuel Johnson

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
Samuel Johnson

Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.
Samuel Johnson

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.
Samuel Johnson

Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.
Samuel Johnson

To that class we may leave it to refine the vernacular dialects of the country, to enrich those dialects with terms of science borrowed from the Western nomenclature, and to render them by degrees fit vehicles for conveying knowledge to the great mass of the population.
Thomas B. Macaulay

The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners.
Thomas B. Macaulay

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