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If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it.

—Oliver Wendell Holmes

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People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge.

—Olin Miller

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His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.

—Laozi

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We have come out of the time when obedience, the acceptance of discipline, intelligent courage, and resolution were most important, into that more difficult time when it is a man's duty to understand his world rather than to simply fight for it.

—J. K. Rowling

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We have an opportunity for everyone in the world to have access to all the world's information. This has never before been possible. Why is ubiquitous information so profound? It's a tremendous equalizer. Information is power.

—Isaac Asimov

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None of us is as smart as all of us.

—Frank Herbert

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Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

—Enrico Fermi

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When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.

—Edgar Allan Poe

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If a man empties his purse into his head no one can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.

—Bertrand Russell

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All men by nature desire knowledge.

—Benjamin Disraeli

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If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.

—Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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That best portion of a good man's life,
His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.

—William Wordsworth

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Yet do I fear thy nature;
It is too full o' the milk of human kindness.

—William Shakespeare

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I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

—Tennessee Williams

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Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone else's life forever.

—Margaret Cho

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