Knowledge is not eating, and we cannot expect to devour and possess what we mean. Knowledge is recognition of something absent it is a salutation, not an embrace.
George Santayana
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We have a tremendous lack of knowledge of how far we have gotten away from the Constitution of the United States. Democrats and Republicans alike have taken us away from the original intent. You see, I believe in this document as our founding fathers intended it. -
That's how easy baseball was for me. I'm not trying to brag or anything, but I had the knowledge before I became a professional baseball player to do all these things and know what each guy would hit. -
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge it is thinking that makes what we read ours. -
Shakespeare also introduces the supernatural into some of his tragedies he introduces ghosts, and witches who have supernatural knowledge. -
We don't focus as much in schools on educational knowledge which requires thinking and application, as we do on acquiring facts.
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- Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine.
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- The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal.
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