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Knowledge Quotes by Ayn Rand
- No matter how vast your knowledge or how modest, it is your own mind that has to acquire it. It is only with your own…
- My pride and my power of vision were all that I owned when I started - and whatever I achieved, was achieved by means of…
- Productiveness is your acceptance of morality, your recognition of the fact that you choose to live-that productive work is the process by which man's consciousness…
- No concept man forms is valid unless he integrates it without contradiction into the sum of his knowledge.
- An animal is equipped for sustaining its life; its senses provide it with an automatic code of action, an automatic knowledge of what is good…
- Truth is the recognition of reality; reason, man's only means of knowledge, is his only standard of truth.
- Show me your achievement, and the knowledge will give me courage for mine.
- The only purpose of education is to teach a student how to live his life-by developing his mind and equipping him to deal with reality.…
- In the name of the values that keep you alive, do not let your vision of man be distorted by the ugly, the cowardly, the…
- A rational mind does not work under compulsion; it does not subordinate its grasp of reality to anyone’s orders, directives, or controls; it does not…
- I can say-not as a patriotic bromide, but with full knowledge of the necessary metaphysical, epistemological , ethical, political and esthetic roots-that the United States…
- Any material element or resource which, in order to become of use or value to men, requires the application of human knowledge and effort, should…
- You'll come back, because yours is an error of knowledge, not a moral failure, not an act of surrender to evil, but only the last…
- There is a fundamental conviction which some people never acquire, some hold only in their youth, and a few hold to the end of their…
- Don't rely on our knowledge of what's best for your future. We do know, but it can't be best until you know it.
- Learn to distinguish the difference between errors of knowledge and breaches of morality
- There’s nothing as significant as a human face. Nor as eloquent. We can never really know another person, except by our first glance at him.…
- Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life.
- In order to live, man must act; in order to act, he must make choices; in order to make choices, he must define a code…
- There must be only three supreme values which govern a person's life: Reason, Purpose, and Self-esteem. Reason, as his only tool of knowledge--Purpose, as his…
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