"Without the way, there is no going without the truth, there is no knowing without the life, there is no living."
-Thomas a Kempis
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"But because many endeavor to get knowledge rather than to live well, they are often deceived and reap little or no benefit from their labor.“
-Thomas a Kempis
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"Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse of impossibility for it thinks all things lawful for itself, and all things possible."
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"What else does anxiety about the future bring you but sorrow upon sorrow?"
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"Oh, how great peace and quietness would he possess who should cut off all vain anxiety and place all his confidence in God."
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"First keep peace with yourself, then you can also bring peace to others."
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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."
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"What is research but a blind date with knowledge?"
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