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Friday, July 27, 2012

Knowledge Quotes


·       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 (551 BC - 479 BC), The Confucian Analects
·     Convinced myself, I seek not to convince. Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849), Berenice
·     It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge. Enrico Fermi (1901 - 1954)
·     None of us is as smart as all of us. Eric Schmidt, University of Pennsylvania Commencement Address, 2009
·     We have an opportunity for everyone in the world to have access to all the world's information. This has never before been possible. Why is ubiquitous information so profound? It's a tremendous equalizer. Information is power. Eric Schmidt, University of Pennsylvania Commencement Address, 2009
·     We have come out of the time when obedience, the acceptance of discipline, intelligent courage, and resolution were most important, into that more difficult time when it is a man's duty to understand his world rather than to simply fight for it. Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992)
·     His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof. J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

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