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True knowledge consists in knowing things, not words.
-Mary Wortley Montagu
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True Knowledge Consists In Knowing Things, Not

Mary Wortley Montagu
True knowledge consists in knowing things, not words.
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The endless cycle of idea and action, endless invention, endless experiment, brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness; knowledge of speech, but not of silence; knowledge of words, and ignorance of the word. all our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance, all our ignorance brings us nearer to death, but nearness to death no nearer to god. where is the life we have lost in living? where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? where is the knowledge we have lost in information? the cycles of heaven in twenty centuries bring us farther from god and nearer to the dust.
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Manliness consists not in bluff, bravado or loneliness. it consists in daring to do the right thing and facing consequences whether it is in matters social, political or other. it consists in deeds not words.
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Knowing god without knowing our own wretchedness makes for pride. knowing our own wretchedness without knowing god makes for despair. knowing jesus christ strikes the balance because he shows us both god and our own wretchedness.
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We should not be content to say that power has a need for such-and-such a discovery, such-and-such a form of knowledge, but we should add that the exercise of power itself creates and causes to emerge new objects of knowledge and accumulates new bodies of information. ... the exercise of power perpetually creates knowledge and, conversely, knowledge constantly induces effects of power. ... it is not possible for power to be exercised without knowledge, it is impossible for knowledge not to engender power.
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This society in which knowledge workers dominate is in danger of a new "class conflict" between the large minority of knowledge workers and the majority of workers who will make their livings through traditional ways, either by manual work... or by service work. the productivity of knowledge work - still abysmally low - will predictably become the economic challenge of the knowledge society. on it will depend the ability of the knowledge society to give decent incomes, and with them dignity and status, to non knowledge people.
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While the dogmatist is harmful, the sceptic is useless ...; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. what philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or of ignorance. knowledge is not so precise a concept as is commonly thought. instead of saying 'i know this', we ought to say 'i more or less know something more or less like this'. ... knowledge in practical affairs has not the certainty or the precision of arithmetic.
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