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81 " We owe almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed. "
82 " God listens to our weeping when the occasion itself is beyond our knowledge but still within His love and power. "
83 " A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living': so too with the biography of that self. And just as lives don't stay still, so life-writing can't be fixed and finalised. Our ideas are shifting about what can be said, our knowledge of human character is changing. The biographer has to pioneer, going 'ahead of the rest of us, like the miner's canary, testing the atmosphere, detecting falsity, unreality, and the presence of obsolete conventions'. So, 'There are some stories which have to be retold by each generation'. She is talking about the story of Shelley, but she could be talking about her own life-story. (Virginia Woolf, p. 11) "
― , Virginia Woolf
84 " The space shuttle was designed, at least in part, to broaden our knowledge of the universe. To scientists, the vehicle was a tool; to engineers, it was their creation. "
85 " Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. We can't talk about science, because our knowledge of it is limited and unofficial, and usually our fiction is dreadful. "
― Philip K. Dick
86 " Most science fiction is based on our knowledge now and uses that to project the future. "
87 " Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use. "
― Thomas J. Watson Jr.
88 " We have to continue to learn. We have to be open. And we have to be ready to release our knowledge in order to come to a higher understanding of reality. "
― Thich Nhat Hanh , You Are Here: Discovering the Magic of the Present Moment
89 " In complete darkness we are all the same, it is only our knowledge and wisdom that separates us, don't let your eyes deceive you. "
90 " We must always remember with gratitude and admiration the first sailors who steered their vessels through storms and mists, and increased our knowledge of the lands of ice in the South. "
91 " I think that we have a great opportunity to impart our wisdom and our knowledge and our experience to this younger generation. It may be different times, but experience transcends time, and wisdom transcends time. "
92 " In these days when science is clearly in the saddle and when our knowledge of disease is advancing at a breathless pace, we are apt to forget that not all can ride and that he also serves who waits and who applies what the horseman discovers. "
93 " Proselytism is solemn nonsense; it makes no sense. We need to get to know each other, listen to each other and improve our knowledge of the world around us. "
94 " Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism. "
95 " We bequeath to you, the next generation, our knowledge but also our problems. While we still live, let us join hands, hearts and minds to work together for their solution so that your world will be better than ours and the world of your children even better. "
96 " To deal with these problems - of world population and hunger, of peace, of energy and mineral resources, of environmental pollution, of poverty - we must broaden and deepen our knowledge of nature's laws, and we must broaden and deepen our understanding of the laws of human behavior. "
