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You are your own most important resource for making your life work. Life rewards action. Until your knowledge, awareness, insights, and understandings are translated into… — Phil McGraw
When I was young, I said to God, 'God, tell me the mystery of the universe.' But God answered, 'That knowledge is for me alone.'… — George Washington Carver
Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor. — Seneca the Younger
Knowledge is awareness, and to it are many paths, not all of them paved with logic. But sometimes one is guided through the maze by… — Louis L'Amour
Ignorance is not a simple lack of knowledge but an active aversion to knowledge, the refusal to know, issuing from cowardice, pride, or laziness of… — Karl Popper
If Russia is to be a great power, it will be, not because of its nuclear potential, faith in God or the president, or Western… — Zhores Alferov
For this knowledge of right living, we have sought a new name... . As theology is the science of religious life, and biology the science… — Ellen Swallow Richards
It is my belief that the basic knowledge that we're providing to the world will have a profound impact on the human condition and the… — Craig Venter
The study of taxonomy in its broadest sense is probably the oldest branch of biology or natural history as well as the basis for all… — Richard E. Blackwelder
Nothing you do makes much of a difference if you do not have charity. You can speak with tongues, have the gift of prophecy, understand… — Joseph B. Wirthlin
We are fortunate now to become aware of the contents of our mind. With that knowledge we will be able to change the aspects that… — Thubten Chodron
Just try to learn the truth by approaching a spiritual master. Inquire from him submissively and render service unto him. The self-realized soul can impart… — A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Intuition does not in itself amount to knowledge, yet cannot be disregarded by philosophers and psychologists. — Corliss Lamont
During the last two centuries and a half, physical knowledge has been gradually made to rest upon a basis which it had not before. It… — Augustus De Morgan
For the little that one has reflected on the origin of our knowledge, it is easy to perceive that we can acquire it only by… — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
Geological facts being of an historical nature, all attempts to deduce a complete knowledge of them merely from their still, subsisting consequences, to the exclusion… — Richard Kirwan
Geology is part of that remarkable dynamic process of the human mind which is generally called science and to which man is driven by an… — Reinout Willem van Bemmelen
Nothing is known in our profession by guess; and I do not believe, that from the first dawn of medical science to the present moment,… — Astley Cooper
The knowledge of Natural-History, being Observation of Matters of Fact, is more certain than most others, and in my slender Opinion, less subject to Mistakes… — Hans Sloane
The word 'chance' then expresses only our ignorance of the causes of the phenomena that we observe to occur and to succeed one another in… — Pierre-Simon Laplace

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