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[Quote No.13138] Need Area: Mind > Learn "I know nothing [with absolute certainty] except the fact of my ignorance. " - Socrates Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.13139] Need Area: Mind > Learn "We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything. " - Thomas Alva Edison Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.13140] Need Area: Mind > Learn "What we know is not much. What we do not know is immense. " - Pierre-Simon de Laplace (1749 - 1827) (Allegedly his last words.) DeMorgan's Budget of Paradoxes. Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.13141] Need Area: Mind > Learn "[Be sceptical and humble:] The recognition that no knowledge can be complete, no metaphor entire, is itself humanizing. It counteracts fanaticism. It grants even to adversaries the possibility of partial truth, and to oneself the possibility of error. " - Alvin Toffler Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.13144] Need Area: Mind > Learn "Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of non-knowledge. " - Isaac Bashevis Singer Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.13145] Need Area: Mind > Learn "Compared to the pond of knowledge, our ignorance remains atlantic. Indeed the horizon of the unknown recedes as we approach it. " - Ronald Duncan in 'The Encyclopaedia of Ignorance' Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.13151] Need Area: Mind > Learn "As a rule, he [or she] who has the most information will have the greatest success in life.
" - Benjamin Disraeli Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.13197] Need Area: Mind > Learn "Good judgement comes from experience...experience comes from poor judgement." - Anonymous Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.13222] Need Area: Mind > Learn "If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier. [The harder you train, the easier you play ...or....The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war]" - Richard Marcinko Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.13230] Need Area: Mind > Learn "Knowledge is free at the library. Just bring your own container." - Anonymous Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.13234] Need Area: Mind > Learn "By my actions, teach my mind." - William Shakespeare Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.13237] Need Area: Mind > Learn "[Skepticism:] The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt." - Rene Descartes on scientific method Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.13292] Need Area: Mind > Learn "The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it. Ignorance may deride it. But in the end, there it is." - Winston Churchill Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.13306] Need Area: Mind > Learn "Minds are like parachutes; they function when open." - Lord Dewar Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.13310] Need Area: Mind > Learn "If you prepare yourself at every point as well as you can, with whatever means you have...you will be able to grasp opportunity for broader experience when it appears." - Eleanor Roosevelt Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.13317] Need Area: Mind > Learn "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." - Bertrand Russell Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.13322] Need Area: Mind > Learn "The rules have changed. True power is held by the person who possesses the largest bookshelf, not gun cabinet or wallet." - Anthony J. D'Angelo 'The College Blue Book'
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[Quote No.13360] Need Area: Mind > Learn "If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all." - Michelangelo Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.13382] Need Area: Mind > Learn "Ability is a poor man's wealth.[and learning creates ability]" - Matthew Wren Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.13406] Need Area: Mind > Learn "I say there is no darkness but ignorance." - William Shakespeare in 'Twelfth Night' Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.26165] Need Area: Mind > Learn "He that walketh with wise men shall be wise. [by learning and example...and vice versa]" - Bible Proverbs 13:20
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[Quote No.13460] Need Area: Mind > Learn "Never write on a subject without having first read yourself full on it; and never read on a subject till you have thought yourself hungry on it." - Jean Paul Richter Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.13486] Need Area: Mind > Learn "Information is the currency of democracy." - Thomas Jefferson Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.13489] Need Area: Mind > Learn "That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all." - Henry Ward Beecher Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.13490] Need Area: Mind > Learn "Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit." - Jawaharlal Nehru Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.13491] Need Area: Mind > Learn "The acquiring of culture is the development of an avid hunger for knowledge and beauty." - Jesse Bennett Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.13492] Need Area: Mind > Learn "There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration." - Andrew Carnegie Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.13493] Need Area: Mind > Learn "It was from my own early experience that I decided there was no use to which money could be applied so productive of good to boys and girls who have good within them and ability and ambition to develop it as the founding of a public library." - Andrew Carnegie (1835 - 1919) Scottish - American capitalist and philanthropist. He donated the money for 2,500 Carnegie libraries to be built, including public and university libraries, earning him the nickname of 'The Patron Saint of Libraries'. Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.13496] Need Area: Mind > Learn "Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest." - Lady Bird Johnson Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.13500] Need Area: Mind > Learn "Books are the compasses and telescopes and sextants and charts which other men have prepared to help us navigate the dangerous seas of human life." - Lee Bennett Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.13502] Need Area: Mind > Learn "I conceive that a knowledge of books is the basis on which all other knowledge rests." - George Washington Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.13504] Need Area: Mind > Learn "A library is an arsenal of liberty." - Anonymous Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.13505] Need Area: Mind > Learn "A good library is a place, a palace where the lofty spirits of all nations and generations meet." - Samuel Niger Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.13507] Need Area: Mind > Learn "The true University of these days is a Collection of Books." - Thomas Carlyle Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.13509] Need Area: Mind > Learn "A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life." - Henry Ward Beecher Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.13511] Need Area: Mind > Learn "The things I want to know are in books..." - Abraham Lincoln Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.13512] Need Area: Mind > Learn "Library -
Here is where people,
One frequently finds,
Lower their voices,
And raise their minds.
" - Richard Armour from 'Light Armour' Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.13513] Need Area: Mind > Learn "What’s important is that all human knowledge be made available to all intelligent people who want to learn it." - Stephen Jay Gould Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.13516] Need Area: Mind > Learn "The library, I believe, is the last of our public institutions to which you can go without credentials… You don’t even need the sticker on your windshield that you need to get into the public beach. All you need is the willingness to read." - Harry Golden Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.13517] Need Area: Mind > Learn "The end of reading is not more books but more life." - Stonewall Jackson Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.13518] Need Area: Mind > Learn "My mother and my father were illiterate immigrants from Russia. When I was a child they were constantly amazed that I could go to a building and take a book on any subject. They couldn’t believe this access to knowledge we have here in America. They couldn’t believe that is was free." - Kirk Douglas Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.13519] Need Area: Mind > Learn "The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go." - Dr. Seuss Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.13525] Need Area: Mind > Learn "He that studies books alone, will know how things ought to be; and he that studies men will know how things are." - Charles Caleb Colton Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.13526] Need Area: Mind > Learn "It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part; the rest are confounded with the multitude." - Voltaire the pen-name of Francois Marie Arouet Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.13527] Need Area: Mind > Learn "Good books are to the young mind what the warming sun and the refreshing rain of spring are to the seeds which have lain dormant in the frosts of winter. They are more, for they may save from that which is worse than death, as well as bless with that which is better than
life." - Horace Mann Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.13528] Need Area: Mind > Learn "'Tis thought and digestion which makes books serviceable, and gives health and vigor to the mind." - Thomas Fuller Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.13599] Need Area: Mind > Learn "A complete and generous education fits a man to perform justly, skilfully and magnanimously all the offices of peace and war." - John Milton Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.13610] Need Area: Mind > Learn "The best teachers of humanity are the [thoughts and] lives of great men." - Samuel Johnson Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.13612] Need Area: Mind > Learn "To Truth's house there is a single door, which is
experience." - Bayard Taylor Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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[Quote No.13613] Need Area: Mind > Learn "Experience does take dreadfully high school-wages, but he teaches like no other." - Thomas Carlyle. Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts Send as Free eCard with optional Google Image |
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