"Knowledge is power." Francis Bacon "Imagination is more important than knowledge." "The only source of knowledge is experience." "The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination." "Information is not knowledge." Albert Einstein "The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.” Benjamin Franklin "Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not." Carl Jung "Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance." Bernard Shaw "Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life." "All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason." Immanuel Kant "Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind." "Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance." Bertrand Russel “If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.” Isaak Asimov “There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge... observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination.” Denis Diderot “Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.” Alvin Toffler "Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind." "The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends." Friedrich Nietzsche "Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance." Confucius "True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing." Socrates "Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens." Jimi Hendrix "Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge." Plato "The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind." Sigmund Freud
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