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It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but t

It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment. – Carl Friedrich Gauss

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Can the knowledge deriving from reason even begin to compare with knowledge perceptible by sense? – Louis Aragon

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We stand in the shadow of Jefferson who believed that a society founded upon the rule of law and liberty was dependent upon public education and the diffusion of knowledge. – Matt Blunt

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The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will. – Vince Lombardi

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Learned men are the cisterns of knowledge, not the fountainheads. – James Northcote

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