"A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession."
-Albert Camus
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"After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.“
-Albert Camus
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"The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm."
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"Belief and knowledge are considered to be two different things. But they are not."
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"Here, class attendance is expected and students are required to take notes, which they are tested on. What is missing, it seems to me, is the use of knowledge, the practical training."
-Harrison Salisbury
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"Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity."
-Abraham Cowley
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"My father was a lawyer and to my best knowledge nobody in my family before had interest in science."
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"Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the literature of the subject, and, above all, an imagination which worked with great power upon the facts of his own experience."
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"What is research but a blind date with knowledge?"
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