"Most universities are no longer temples of knowledge,……" — Dean Koontz
"Most universities are no longer temples of knowledge, but of power, and true moderns worship there."
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374 Quotes by Dean Koontz
Dean Koontz has 374 quotes on this site.
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I've a long list of things I don't know how I've done, but I've done them. In the end, it's…
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Loyal companions are an unequaled grace, stanching fear before it bleeds you numb, a reliable antidote for creeping despair.
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Thanks to the circus between my ears, I can seize upon the smallest disquieting observation and from it extrapolate a…
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The snow did not even whisper its way to earth, but seemed to salt the night with silence.
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We are not born to wait. We are born to do.
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Wealth is power, and power is the only thing about which contemporary culture cares.
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How passionately we love everything that cannot last: the dazzling crystallory of winter, the spring in bloom, the fragile flight…
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No degree of prosperity can be sufficient to eliminate all misfortune, and sloth is impervious to opportunity.
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The recognition of pain and fear in others give rise in us to pity, and in our pity is our…
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Perhaps extreme danger strips us of all pretenses, all ambitions, all confusions, focusing us more intensely than we are otherwise…
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We are an arrogant species, full of terrible potential, but we also have a great capacity for love, friendship, generosity,…
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Home is the first refuge from - and last defense against - the disappointments and the terrors of life.
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We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that.
— J. J. Abrams
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Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the…
— Aristophanes
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Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,…
— Aristotle
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Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.
— Aristotle
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The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.
— Aristotle
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All men by nature desire knowledge.
— Aristotle
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It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.
— Aristotle
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Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day.
— Karen Armstrong
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Research is creating new knowledge.
— Neil Armstrong
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Real knowledge, like everything else of value, is not to be obtained easily. It must be worked for, studied for,…
— Thomas Arnold
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The health of the people is of supreme importance. All measures looking to their protection against the spread of contagious…
— Chester A. Arthur
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People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
— Isaac Asimov
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