Quote by Chaim Potok
As a species we are always hungry for new knowledge. - Chaim Potok

As a species we are always hungry for new knowledge. – Chaim Potok

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All of us grow up in particular realities – a home, family, a clan, a small town, a neighborhood. Depending upon how were brought up, we are either deeply aware of the particular reading of reality into which we are born, or we are peripherally aware of it. – Chaim Potok

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Family
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A book is sent out into the world, and there is no way of fully anticipating the responses it will elicit. Consider the responses called forth by the Bible, Homer, Shakespeare – let alone contemporary poetry or a modern novel. – Chaim Potok

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alone
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I think that to a very great extent we are partners with the divine in this enterprise called history. That is an ongoing relationship, and there is absolutely no guarantee that things will automatically work out to our best advantage. – Chaim Potok

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relationship
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A good government implies two things first, fidelity to the objects of the government secondly, a knowledge of the means, by which those objects can be best attained. – Joseph Story

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Perhaps as good a classification as any of the main types is that of the three lusts distinguished by traditional Christianity – the lust of knowledge, the lust of sensation, and the lust of power. – Irving Babbitt

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Knowledge

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind. – Plato

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Knowledge

Principles are the important things; the more you have of them, the more knowledge you can carry. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

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Knowledge

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