"Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true knowledge."
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"Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true knowledge."
"Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying."
"As educators, we are only as effective as what we know. If we have no working knowledge of what students studied in previous years, how can we build on their learning? If we have no insight into the curriculum in later grades, how can we prepare learners for future classes?"
"Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance."
"It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment."
"Research is creating new knowledge."
"Good architecture should be a projection of life itself, and that implies an intimate knowledge of biological, social, technical, and artistic problems."
"It's very strange that most people don't care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations."
"Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family."
"My understanding is that what was provided was general order of battle information, not operational intelligence. I certainly have no knowledge of US participation in preparing battle and strike packages and doubt strongly that that occurred."
"There never yet has been a country which became powerful without knowledge. A man by his own strength alone cannot successfully combat a tiger, but by his intelligence, he can devise means to entrap him."
"Schools are not intended to moralize a wicked world, but to impart knowledge and develop intelligence, with only two social aims in mind: prepare to take on one's share in the world's work, and perhaps in addition, lend a hand in improving society, after schooling is done."
"One may have broad or narrow talents, but only education renders them useful. Schools set up to train people will develop the intelligence of those who have it and end the stupidity of those who do not, providing a specialty to those who have narrow talent and broad knowledge to those with all-around ability."
"I have a close association with Gen. Petraeus... What you get in Dave Petraeus is a very unique officer, a combination of intelligence, extraordinary depth of knowledge and understanding."
"It's public knowledge that there have been efforts - as U. S. intelligence sources have said - by Russia to destabilize the U. S. political system. I think that Canadians and, indeed, other Western countries should be prepared for similar efforts to be directed at us."
"The truth is that intelligence, knowledge, and domain expertise are vastly overrated as the driving forces behind competitive advantage and sustainable success."
"Of course, we would love to know more about the exact moment of Big Bang, but interposing an outside intelligence does nothing to add to that knowledge, as we still know nothing about the creation of that intelligence."
"The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism."
"Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved."
"Knowledge will forever govern ignorance and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives."
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