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"The greatest mathematicians, as Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, always united theory and applications in equal measure"
Felix Klein, Mathematician
"Living in Europe, I was surprised to find out just how little everyone knows about Japan"
Hidetoshi Nakata, Athlete
"Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind"
Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher
"There is no darkness but ignorance"
William Shakespeare, Dramatist
"Information is not knowledge"
Albert Einstein, Physicist
"Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity"
Martin Luther King Jr., Minister
"Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity"
Aristotle, Philosopher
"All men by nature desire knowledge"
Aristotle, Philosopher
"The learning and knowledge that we have is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant"
Plato, Philosopher
"The most dangerous people are the ignorant"
Henry Ward Beecher, Clergyman
"Even for practical purposes, theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end"
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Poet
"When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge"
Confucius, Philosopher
"The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do"
Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman
"Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man"
Francis Bacon, Philosopher
"The supernatural is the natural, not yet understood"
Elbert Hubbard, Writer
"No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world"
Robin Williams, Comedian
"I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen"
Ernest Hemingway, Novelist
"To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting"
Edmund Burke, Statesman
"Education is the cheap defense of nations"
Edmund Burke, Statesman
"A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring"
Alexander Pope, Poet
"The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values"
William S. Burroughs, Writer
"Human history, in essence, is the history of ideas"
H.G. Wells, Author
"Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge"
Leonardo da Vinci, Artist
"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, Philosopher
"Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance"
Will Durant, Historian
"Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance"
Will Durant, Historian
"Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin"
Lord Acton, Historian
"An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head"
Eric Hoffer, Writer
"The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable"
Arthur Schopenhauer, Philosopher
"Wonder is the desire for knowledge"
Thomas Aquinas, Theologian
"A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but a little want of knowledge is also a dangerous thing"
Samuel Butler, Poet
"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, Novelist
"Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down"
George Eliot, Author
"To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days"
Plutarch, Philosopher
"No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience"
John Locke, Philosopher
"I attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed to ask for information, and to my rule of conversing with all descriptions of men on those topics that form their own peculiar professions and pursuits"
John Locke, Philosopher
"Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all"
Charles Babbage, Mathematician
"At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes abridged"
Charles Babbage, Mathematician
"Much learning shows how little mortals know; much wealth, how little wordings enjoy"
Edward Young, Poet
"A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both"
James Madison, President
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