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Moses Hadas on hope
Author: Moses Hadas“The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.” -Moses Hadas
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Denis Diderot on hope
Author: Denis Diderot“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
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Doug Coupland on hope
Author: Doug Coupland“It’s very strange that most people don’t care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations.” -Doug Coupland
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Thomas J. Watson on hope
Author: Thomas J. Watson“Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.” -Thomas J. Watson
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Michel de Montaigne on hope
Author: Michel de Montaigne“There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.” -Michel de Montaigne
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Arthur Schopenhauer on hope
Author: Arthur Schopenhauer“The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.” -Arthur Schopenhauer
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Samuel Johnson on hope
Author: Samuel Johnson“Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.” -Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Butler on hope
Author: Samuel Butler“The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.” -Samuel Butler
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Francis Bacon on hope
Author: Francis Bacon“Knowledge and human power are synonymous.” -Francis Bacon
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Rene Descartes on hope
Author: Rene Descartes“The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.” -Rene Descartes
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Robert Anthony on hope
Author: Robert Anthony“Some people drink from the fountain of knowledge, others just gargle.” -Robert Anthony
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R. Buckminster Fuller on hope
Author: R. Buckminster Fuller“Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well but their manners should be of the greatest concern.” -R. Buckminster Fuller
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James A. Baldwin on hope
Author: James A. Baldwin“The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.” -James A. Baldwin
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Thomas Sowell on hope
Author: Thomas Sowell“Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated.” -Thomas Sowell
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George Eliot on hope
Author: George Eliot“Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.” -George Eliot
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Stephen Hawking on hope
Author: Stephen Hawking“Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge.” -Stephen Hawking
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Joseph Wood Krutch on hope
Author: Joseph Wood Krutch“It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.” -Joseph Wood Krutch
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Benjamin Disraeli on hope
Author: Benjamin Disraeli“The more extensive a man’s knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.” -Benjamin Disraeli
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Blaise Pascal on hope
Author: Blaise Pascal“The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.” -Blaise Pascal
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Vincent Van Gogh on hope
Author: Vincent Van Gogh“Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous.” -Vincent Van Gogh
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Mao Zedong on hope
Author: Mao Zedong“If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.” -Mao Zedong
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Marilu Henner on hope
Author: Marilu Henner“It is now common knowledge that the average American gains 7 pounds between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Day.” -Marilu Henner
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Jose Marti on hope
Author: Jose Marti“Happiness exists on earth, and it is won through prudent exercise of reason, knowledge of the harmony of the universe, and constant practice of generosity.” -Jose Marti
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Milton Friedman on hope
Author: Milton Friedman“Universities exist to transmit knowledge and understanding of ideas and values to students not to provide entertainment for spectators or employment for athletes.” -Milton Friedman
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Marcus Tullius Cicero on hope
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero“The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.” -Marcus Tullius Cicero