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Quote by Ralph Cudworth
Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active ex

Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within. – Ralph Cudworth

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Now all the knowledge and wisdom that is in creatures, whether angels or men, is nothing else but a participation of that one eternal, immutable and increased wisdom of God. – Ralph Cudworth

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If we look at the realm of knowledge, how exceedingly small and limited is that part acquired through our own senses how wide is that we gain from other sources. – Matthew Simpson

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I am not a member of any organization listed by the Attorney General as subversive. In any instance where I lent my name in the past, it was certainly without knowledge that such an organization was subversive. I have always been essentially and foremost an American. – Judy Holliday

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The knowledge that we have about what it is to be human that we have as a child is something we necessarily must lose. – Dennis Potter

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Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two. – John Cheever

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