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Knowledge
«Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates.»
Author: Abbott Lawrence Lowell
(Lawyer, University President)
| About:
Knowledge,
University
| Keywords:
accumulates, freshman, freshmen, seniors, universities
«One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.»
Author: Eduardo Chillida
| About:
Knowledge
«On the basis of biological, sociological, and historical knowledge, we should recognize that the individual self is subject to death or decay, but the sum total of individual achievement, for better or worse, lives on in the immortality of The Larger»
Author: Hu Shih
| About:
Knowledge
| Keywords:
biological, For Better or Worse, historical, sociological, subject to
«One thing they never tell you about child raising is that for the rest of your life, at the drop of a hat, you are expected to know your child's name and how old he or she is.»
«No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth; and even the best of men must be content with fragments, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition»
Author: William Osler
(Physician)
| About:
Knowledge,
Truth
| Keywords:
constituted, fragmented, fragments, fruition, glimpses, partial, The Whole Truth, Truth The
«On the one hand, philosophy is to keep us thinking about things that we may come to know, and on the other hand to keep us modestly aware of how much that seems like knowledge isn't knowledge»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Knowledge,
Philosophy
| Keywords:
aware, modestly, on the one hand, on the other hand
«Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Achievement,
Beauty,
Glory,
Humanity,
Knowledge,
Truth,
Virtue
| Keywords:
abided, abide by, Abide With Me, abiding, glory, on paper, paper