"The greatest weariness comes from work not done."
-Eric Hoffer
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"We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about.“
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"When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common everyday truths."
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"Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something."
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"It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn."
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"Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength."
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"Belief and knowledge are considered to be two different things. But they are not."
-Stanley Fish
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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."
-George Andrew Olah
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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."
-Carl Clinton Van Doren
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"What is research but a blind date with knowledge?"
-Will Harvey
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