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- The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and take nobody's word about them.
- Henry Bolingbroke
- Real knowledge, like everything else of value, is not to be obtained easily. It must be worked for, studied for, thought for, and, more that all, must be prayed for.
- Thomas Arnold
- No one that ever lived has ever had enough power, prestige, or knowledge to overcome the basic condition of all life - you win some and you lose some.
- Ken Keyes
- Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college.
- Lillian Smith
- We know accurately only when we know little; with knowledge doubt increases.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
- Knowledge and personality make doubt possible, but knowledge is also the cure of doubt; and when we get a full and adequate sense of personality we are lifted into a region where doubt is almost impossible, for no man can know himself as he is, and all fullness of his nature, without also knowing God.
- T. T. Munger
- Doubt is the vestibule which all must pass before they can enter the temple of wisdom. When we are in doubt and puzzle out the truth by our own exertions, we have gained something that will stay by us and will serve us again. But if to avoid the trouble of the search we avail ourselves of the superior information of a friend, such knowledge will not remain with us; we have not bought, but borrowed it.
- C. C. Colton
- Whoever in prayer can say, "Our Father," acknowledges and should feel the brotherhood of the whole race of mankind.
- Tyron Edwards
- He that boasts of his own knowledge proclaims his ignorance
- Author Unknown
- The weaker the man in authority... the stronger his insistence that all his privileges be acknowledged.
- Austin O'Malley
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