Albert Einstein Quotes, Learning Quotes, Knowledge Quotes

If I had an hour to solve a problem and my life depended on the solution, I would spend the first 55 minutes determining the proper question to ask, for once I know the proper question, I could solve the problem in less than five minutes.

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With enough of us, around the world, we'll not just send a strong message opposing the privatization of knowledge - we'll make it a thing of the past.

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No one has yet been found so firm of mind and purpose as resolutely to compel himself to sweep away all theories and common notions, and to apply the understanding, thus made fair and even, to a fresh examination of particulars. Thus it happens that human knowledge, as we have it, is a mere medley and ill-digested mass, made up of much credulity and much accident, and also of the childish notions which we at first imbibed.

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Not to have knowledge of what happened before you were born is to be condemned to live as a child.

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Knowledge leads to unity, but ignorance to diversity.

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Sight is the least sensual of all the senses. And we strain ourselves to see, see, see--everything, everything through the eye, inone mode of objective curiosity.

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Better know nothing than half-know many things.

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There are gems of wondrous brightness Ofttimes lying at our feet, And we pass them, walking thoughtless, Down the busy, crowded street. If we knew, our pace would slacken, We would step more oft with care, Lest our careless feet be treading To the earth some jewel rare.

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Trying to understand is like straining through muddy water. Be still and allow the mud to settle.

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But the jiva [living being] is endowed with ego and his knowledge is limited, whereas Ishwar is without ego and is omniscient.

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Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?

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Activity is the only road to knowledge.

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The right to know is like the right to live. It is fundamental and unconditional in its assumption that knowledge, like life, is a desirable thing.

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I work for posterity, these things requiring ages for their accomplishment.

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Where my reason, imagination or interest were not engaged, I would not or I could not learn.

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During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief.

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I like to have a person's knowledge comprehend more than one class of topics, one row of shelves. I like a person who likes to see a fine barn as well as a good tragedy.

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We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.

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Conversation with a friend will only bear good fruit of knowledge when both think only of the matter under consideration and forget that they are friends.

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Even truthfulness is but one means to knowledge, a ladder--but not the ladder.

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