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Knowledge
«The thing that's important to know is that you never know. You're always sort of feeling your way.»
«The secret of contentment is knowing how to enjoy what you have, and to be able to lose all desire for things beyond your reach»
«The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.»
Author: Rene Descartes
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Scientist)
| About:
Knowledge
| Keywords:
acquisition, acquisitions, deduction, deductions, intuition, in operation, operations, rely
«The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.»
«The source of all life and knowledge is in man and woman, and the source of all living is in the interchange and the meeting and mingling of these two: man-life and woman-life, man-knowledge and woman-knowledge, man-being and woman-being.»
Author: D.H. Lawrence
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Knowledge,
Life,
Men and Women
| Keywords:
interchange, interchanging, mingling
«The preservation of the means of knowledge among the lowest ranks is of more importance to the public than all the property of all the rich men in the country»
Author: John Adams
(President)
| About:
Knowledge
| Keywords:
lower rank, lowest, preservation, public property, ranks
«The Tree of Knowledge grew fast by, Knowledge of Good bought dear by knowing ill»
Author: John Milton
(Historian, Poet, Scholar)
| About:
Knowledge
| Keywords:
bought, grew, tree of knowledge