John Milton Quotes, Ignorance Quotes, Knowledge Quotes

Knowledge forbidden? Suspicious, reasonless. Why should their Lord Envy them that? Can it be sin to know, Can it be death? And do they only stand By ignorance? Is that their happy state, The proof of their obedience and their faith? O fair foundation laid whereon to build Their ruin!

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In my utter impotence to test the authenticity of the report of my senses, to know whether the impressions they make on me correspond with outlying objects, what difference does it make, whether Orion is up there in heaven, or some god paints the image in the firmament of the soul?

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Abandon wisdom, discard knowledge, and people will benefit a hundredfold.

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You must treat the days respectfully, you must be a day yourself, and not interrogate it like a college professor.

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By all means sometimes be alone; salute thyself; see what thy soul doth wear; dare to look in thy chest; and tumble up and down what thou findest there.

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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.

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Praised be the fathomless universe, for life and joy, and for objects and knowledge curious.

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The difference between the actual and the ideal force of man is happily figured in by the schoolmen, in saying, that the knowledgeof man is an evening knowledge, vespertina cognitio, but that of God is a morning knowledge, matutina cognitio.

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Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?

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In vain sedate reflections we would make When half our knowledge we must snatch, not take.

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In the scientific world I find just that disinterested devotion to great ends that I hope will spread at last through the entire range of human activity.

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A knowledge of mankind and of things that surround us gives us that second education which proves far move valuable than our first because it alone turns out a truly accomplished man.

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The trouble with the media is that it seems unable to distinguish between the end of the world and a bicycle accident.

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It is the responsibility of scientists never to suppress knowledge, no matter how awkward that knowledge is, no matter how it may bother those in power; we are not smart enough to decide which pieces of knowledge are permissible, and which are not.

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If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.

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What can be shown? What true love be? All could be known or shown If Time were but gone.

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You have to know the past to understand the present.

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To each individual the world will take on a different connotation of meaning-the important lies in the desire to search for an answer.

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The knowledge of which geometry aims is the knowledge of the eternal.

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To know how little one knows is to have genuine knowledge. Not to know how little one knows is to be deluded. Only those who know when they are deluded can free themselves from such delusion. The intelligent people are not deluded, because they know and accept their ignorance as ignorance, and thereby have genuine knowledge.

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