Refinement Series
Knowledge
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Collected Knowledge
Latest AdditionsI think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House - with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.— John F. Kennedy
The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.— John F. Kennedy
Inability to make decisions is one of the principal reasons executives fail. Deficiency in decision-making ranks much higher than lack of specific knowledge or technical know-how as an indicator of leadership failure.— John C. Maxwell
We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.— James Madison
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The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.— James Baldwin
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In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.— J. Robert Oppenheimer
Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.— Samuel Smiles
Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.— Louis Pasteur
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