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The end of the Cold War removed the immediate causes
of whole destruction -- but not the threat contained
in our knowledge. We must tame this knowledge with
the ideals of justice, caring, and compassion summoned
from our common human spiritual and moral heritage,
if we are to live in peace and serenity in the twenty-first
century.
--
Mahnaz Afkhami
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If the entire history of mankind were condensed into
a single year, our knowledge of how to destroy life
on earth with weapons of mass destruction has been acquired
in the last thirty seconds. Never again will we lack
the knowledge to eliminate the world in a single act
of madness. Therefore, we are faced with a dilemma unique
in our history. We must not only control the weapons
that can kill us, we must bridge the great disparities
of wealth and opportunity among the peoples of the world,
the vast majority of whom live in poverty without hope,
opportunity or choices in life. These conditions are
a breeding ground for division that can cause a desperate
people to resort to nuclear weapons as a last resort.
Our only hope lies in the power of our love, generosity,
tolerance and understanding and our commitment to making
the world a better place for all...
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Knowledge
is power. Information is liberating. Education is
the premise of progress, in every society, in every
family."
~ Kofi
Annan
Acquiring
literacy is an empowering process, enabling millions
to enjoy access to knowledge and information which
broadens horizons, increases opportunities and creates
alternatives for building a better life.
~ Kofi
Annan
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"Microfinance
recognizes that poor people are remarkable reservoirs
of energy and knowledge. And while the lack of financial
services is a sign of poverty, today it is also understood
as an untapped opportunity to create markets, bring
people in from the margins and give them the tools with
which to help themselves."
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The
saddest aspect of life right now
is that science gathers knowledge faster than society
gathers wisdom.
-- Isaac
Asimov
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"Good
nature is worth more than knowledge,
more than money, more than honor..."
-- Henry
Ward Beecher
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Everyone
has a transferable commodity-knowledge.
Sharing your unique expertise and making introductions for
someone creates a lasting legacy.
Marsha Blackburn
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To
understand reality is not the same as to know about
outward events. It is to perceive the essential nature
of things. The best-informed man is not necessarily
the wisest. Indeed there is a danger that precisely
in the multiplicity of his knowledge he will lose
sight of what is essential. But on the other hand,
knowledge of an apparently trivial detail quite often
makes it possible to see into the depth of things.
And so the wise man will seek to acquire the best
possible knowledge about events, but always without
becoming dependent upon this knowledge. To recognize
the significant in the factual is wisdom.
-- Dietrich
Bonhoeffer
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“The
aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of
values.”
-- William S. Boroughs
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It
has long been recognized that an essential element
in protecting human rights was a widespread knowledge
among the population of what their rights are and
how they can be defended.
-- Boutros
Boutros-Ghali, Sixth UN Secretary-General, 1992-1996
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I
have repeatedly stressed that we have the knowledge
to reduce hunger and poverty.
-- Gro
Harlem Brundtland
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"We can use our scientific knowledge to improve and
beautify the earth, or we can use it to ...poison
the air, corrupt the waters, blacken the face of the
country, and harass our souls with loud and discordant
noises, [or]...we can use it to mitigate or abolish
all these things."
~
John
Burroughs
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If facts are the seeds that later produce knowledge
and wisdom, then the emotions and the impressions
of the senses are the fertile soil in which the seeds
must grow.
-- Rachel
Carson
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Acquire
new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may
become a teacher of others.
- Confucius
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Checking
the results of a decision against its expectations
shows executives what their strengths are, where they
need to improve, and where they lack knowledge or
information.
--
Peter
F. Drucker
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Imagination
is more important than knowledge.
-- Albert
Einstein
The
only source of knowledge is experience.
-- Albert
Einstein
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It is the supreme art of the teacher
to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
-- Albert
Einstein
Whoever
undertakes to set himself up as a judge
of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter
of the gods.
-- Albert
Einstein
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...our
civilization, so addicted to knowledge, has fled from
wisdom. Knowledge is very, very powerful. If it is
not tempered and contoured by greater visions, like
justice, compassion, beauty, grace and thinking of
the next generation and seven generations to come
-- then indeed, it is dangerous. Unfortunately, many
of our educational systems in the West are still very
dangerous places." -- Matthew
Fox
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"If
you have knowledge, let others light their candles
in it."
-- Margaret
Fuller
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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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A teacher
is a compass that activates the magnets of curiosity, knowledge,
and wisdom in the pupils.
-- Eve Garrison
A little
knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge
that is idle.
-- Kahlil Gibran
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Without
self knowledge, without understanding the working
and functions of his machine, man cannot be free,
he cannot govern himself and he will always remain
a slave.
-- George
Gurdjieff
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You
can practice to attain knowledge, but you can't practice
to attain wisdom.
--
Herbie
Hancock
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"Without
mutual knowledge there can be no mutual understanding;
without understanding, there can be no trust and respect;
without trust, there can be no peace, only the danger
of conflict. This means we have to be willing and able
to familiarize ourselves with the way people of other
cultures think and perceive the world around them, but
without losing our own standpoint in the process."
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"A generation
that acquires knowledge without ever understanding
how that knowledge can benefit the community
is a generation that is not learning what it means to be
citizens in a democracy."
-- Elizabeth L. Hollander (1817-1885)
It is
the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege
of wisdom to listen.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes
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If
most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because
self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures
of illusion.
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"I
am not blind to the shortcomings of our own people.
I am not unaware that leaders betray, and sell out,
and play false. But this knowledge does not outweigh
the fact that my class, the working class, is exploited,
driven, fought back with the weapon of starvation,
with guns and with venal courts whenever they strike
for conditions more human, more civilized for their
children, and for their children's children."
-- Mother
Jones
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"Across
the world women are joining hands in solidarity and
support, in a global women’s movement, sharing knowledge
and experience and empowering themselves to build
a peaceful and fairer world."
-- Marilee
Karl
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"Unlike
plagues of the dark ages or contemporary diseases we
do not understand, the modern plague of overpopulation
is soluble by means we have discovered and with resources
we posses. What is lacking is not sufficient knowledge
of the solution but universal consciousness of the gravity
of the problem and education of the billions who are
its victim."
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Remember
that consciousness is power. Consciousness is education
and knowledge. Consciousness is becoming aware. It
is the perfect vehicle for students. Consciousness-raising
is pertinent for power, and be sure that power will
not be abusively used, but used for building trust
and goodwill domestically and internationally. Tomorrow's
world is yours to build.
-- Yuri
Kochiyama
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The
improvement of understanding is for two ends: first,
our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable
us to deliver that knowledge to others.
-- John
Locke
Reading
furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge;
it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
-- John
Locke
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We
will forever live with the danger of nuclear weapons
because the nuclear genie has been let out of the
bottle. Knowledge cannot be erased once it arrives.
That’s the nature of ideas, that’s the nature of
scientific advancement, and that’s the nature of
widening the horizon of human understanding. The
point is that you have to learn to live with the
world that has been created, but to do this we must
structure a society that is less asymmetric and
more equal. We must find a way to make sure that
the fruits produced by the world are enjoyed equally.
That doesn’t mean everybody will be equal, but that
people will not feel constantly cheated out of their
patrimony, or their God-given rights like shelter,
food, health, and education and therefore not be
denied their human potential. The International
Declaration of Human Rights says the right to housing,
health, education should be guaranteed to everyone.
The moment these things are provided, we will have
a different world order and nuclear weapons will
become less of a threat. --
Bernard
Lown
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One
of the marks of a great teacher lies not only in an
ability to impart knowledge but also in knowing when
to encourage a student to go off on his own.
-- Yo-Yo
Ma
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We
frail humans are at one time capable of the greatest
good and, at the same time, capable of the greatest
evil. Change will only come about when each of us takes
up the daily struggle ourselves to be more forgiving,
compassionate, loving, and above all joyful in the knowledge
that, by some miracle of grace, we can change as those
around us can change too.
-- Mairead
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We come
to know ourselves, then, through coming to know each other.
And the deeper that knowledge, the richer and more creative
the world we build together."
-- Danny Martin, Director of ICRE (International Communities
for the Renewal of the Earth)
There
is hope if people will begin to awaken that spiritual part
of themselves,
that heartfelt knowledge that we are caretakers of this
planet.
~ Brooke Medicine Eagle
"Literacy
is not, as it is considered in our schools, a PORTION
of education. It IS education. It is at once the ability
AND the inclination of the mind to find knowledge, to
pursue understanding, and out of knowledge and understanding,
not out of received attitudes and values or emotional
responses, however worthy, to make judgments."
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In
my mind, the purpose of education is to enable human
beings to develop to their full potential, intellectually
and spiritually. That means that students have to
be empowered to pursue self-knowledge and the skills
that will help them be of service to their fellow
human beings. Education should encourage people to
develop their curiosity about life; above all, it
should not trivialize either the students or their
lives.
-- Michael
Nagler
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Knowledge
becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.
- Plato
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"We
are moved to deep humility by the knowledge that even
as we are blazing new trails into an as yet uncharted
future, we are following in the footsteps of a vast
legacy of spiritual leaders and social change makers.
The struggle for justice is as old as tyranny itself,
and the longing for a world guided by love is as old
as the human heart. Thank you for joining us in carrying
the great dream forward through the next generation."
~
Ocean
Robbins
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Science
is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of
knowledge.
-- Carl
Sagan
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"Necessity
is the mother of invention, it is true, but its father is
creativity, and knowledge is the midwife"
-- Jonathan Schattke
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Our
ordinary mind always tries to persuade us that we
are nothing but acorns and that our greatest happiness
will be to become bigger, fatter, shinier acorns;
but that is of interest only to pigs. Our faith gives
us knowledge of something better: that we can become
oak trees.
~ E.
F. Schumacher
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Any
classification according to a singular identity polarizes
people in a particular way, but if we take note of
the fact that we have many different identities -
related not just to religion but also to language,
occupation and business, politics, class and poverty,
and many others - we can see that the polarization
of one can be resisted by a fuller picture. So knowledge
and understanding are extremely important to fight
against singular polarization.
-- Amartya
Sen
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“A
real medicine can only exist when it penetrates into
a knowledge which embraces the human being in respect
to body, soul and spirit.”
-- Rudolf
Steiner
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There's
an awful lot of misunderstanding here about what being
poor actually means. I don't think people understand
that being poor means you have to work from dawn until
dusk just to survive through the day. I think there's
some notion that poor people lie about all day not
doing anything. It is remarkable how many misconceptions
there are here about life in the developing world
and I think that that knowledge gap has done a lot
to contribute to the imbalance quite frankly.
-- Emma
Thompson
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"Literacy
arouses hopes, not only in society as a whole but also
in the individual who is striving for fulfilment, happiness
and personal benefit by learning how to read and write.
Literacy... means far more than learning how to read
and write... The aim is to transmit... knowledge and
promote social participation."
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“We
women have presented an alternative proposal to society
and to humanity. It is about the construction of a
world where tolerance is a life style; Where daily
social and political divergences and its resolutions
would be seen as part of humanity; Where equality
would be possible in all its dimensions; Where knowledge
and access to education and other social possessions
would not be the privilege of a few; A world where
violence in all its forms would be past history, where
fear will not overwhelm us and where we shall be able
to enjoy the goodness of existence.”
~ Rafaela
vos Obeso
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What
does mysticism really mean? It means the way to attain
knowledge. It's close to philosophy, except in philosophy
you go horizontally while in mysticism you go vertically.
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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.
-- Rosalyn
Yalow
If
we are to have faith that mankind will survive and
thrive on the face of the earth, we must believe that
each succeeding generation will be wiser than its
progenitors. We transmit to you, the next generation,
the total sum of our knowledge. Yours is the responsibility
to use it, add to it, and transmit it to your children.
-- Rosalyn
Yalow
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