975 private quotes tagged knowledge

“Education, whatever else it should or should not be, must be an inoculation against the poisons of life and an adequate equipment in knowledge and skill for meeting the chances of life.” — Havelock Ellis

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“The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.” — Sam Houston

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“The family teaches us about the importance of knowledge, education, hard work and effort. It teaches us about enjoying ourselves, having fun, keeping fit and healthy.” — Kamisese Mara

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“Education can counteract the natural tendency to do the wrong thing, but the inexorable succession of generations requires that the basis for this knowledge be constantly refreshed.” — Garrett Hardin

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“Education in the light of present-day knowledge and need calls for some spirited and creative innovations both in the substance and the purpose of current pedagogy.” — Anne Sullivan Macy

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“If you go and talk to most people, they mean well but they don't have much of a breadth on education, of knowledge of understanding what the real issues are and therefore they listen to pundits on television who tell them what they are supposed to think and they keep repeating that until pretty soon they say, 'Oh, well that must be true.'” — Benjamin Carson

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“Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.” — Henry Adams

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“I think it is totally wrong and terribly harmful if education is defined as acquiring knowledge.” — William Glasser

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“I think education is both using and improving knowledge and that changes the whole picture.” — William Glasser

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“The education that prepared me was my general education classes, which I tried to avoid when I was a stupid undergraduate, but which gave me the foundation of general knowledge that makes a career as a writer possible.” — Orson Scott Card

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“It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.” — Brooks Atkinson

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“In Mexico, theater is very underground, so if you're a theater actor it's very difficult to make a living. But it's also a very beautiful pathway to knowledge and to an open education.” — Gael Garcia Bernal

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“At any rate, girls are differently situated. Having no need of deep scientific knowledge, their education is confined more to the ordinary things of the world, the study of the fine arts, and of the manners and dispositions of people.” — William John Wills

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“How are men to be secured in any rights without instruction how to be secured in the equal exercise of those rights without equality of instruction? By instruction understand me to mean knowledge - just knowledge not talent, not genius, not inventive mental powers.” — Frances Wright

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“Effective use of Braille is as important to the blind as independent mobility, knowledge in the use of adaptive technology, and the core belief that equality, opportunity and security are truly possible for all people who are blind.” — Bob Ney

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“Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.” — Calvin Coolidge

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“No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.” — John Locke

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“The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.” — Moses Hadas

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“It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge that begins with experience.” — Immanuel Kant

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“But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.” — Immanuel Kant

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“The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.” — Elizabeth Hardwick

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“But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.” — Muhammad Iqbal

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“The amount of meetings I've been in - people would be shocked. But that's how you gain experience, how you can gain knowledge, being in meetings and participating. You learn and grow.” — Tiger Woods

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“When a child comes in, I believe that it's a 'multipersonhood,' and it knows it, its consciousness knows it, and it has a nuclei in the center of its consciousness that is the repository of all experience and all knowledge. And when you look in the eyes of your baby and you feel this sense that they are an old soul, I believe indeed they are.” — Shirley MacLaine

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“I think in most jobs, you get better as you get older. You gain experience, you gain knowledge.” — Kristin Scott Thomas

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