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  1. Hermann Hesse _ Siddhartha

    There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge-that is everywhere, that is Atman, that is in me and you and in every creature, and I am beginning to believe that this knowledge has no worse enemy than the man of knowledge, than learning.
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  2. Hermann Hesse _ Siddhartha

    I felt knowledge and the unity of the world circulate in me like my own blood.
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  3. Hermann Hesse _ Siddhartha

    I have always thirsted for knowledge, I have always been full of questions.
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  4. Hermann Hesse _ Demian. Die Geschichte von

    I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.
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  5. Hermann Hesse _ Siddhartha

    Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else ... Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.
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  6. Paulo Coelho _ The Witch of Portobello

    When we venture in that unfamiliar sea, we trust blindly in those who guide us, believing that they know more than we do.
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  7. Dan Simmons _ Olympos

    ...Data itself... was tolerable. It was the constant nerve-web-expanding pain of context that would kill him.
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  8. Chuck Palahniuk _ Lullaby

    Some people still think knowledge is power.
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  9. Arthur Conan Doyle _ A Study in Scarlet

    Dr. Watson's summary list of Sherlock Holmes's strengths and weaknesses:"1. Knowledge of Literature: Nil.2. Knowledge of Philosophy: Nil.3. Knowledge of Astronomy: Nil.4. Knowledge of Politics: Feeble.5. Knowledge of Botany: Variable. Well up in belladonna, opium, and poisons generally. Knows nothing of practical gardening.6. Knowledge of Geology: Practical but limited. Tells at a glance different soils from each other. After walks has shown me splashes upon his trousers, and told me by their colour and consistence in what part of London he had received them.7. Knowledge of Chemistry: Profound.8. Knowledge of Anatomy: Accurate but unsystematic.9. Knowledge of Sensational Literature: Immense. He appears to know every detail of every horror perpetrated in the century.10. Plays the violin well.11. Is an expert singlestick player, boxer, and swordsman.12. Has a good practical knowledge of British law.
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  10. Antonio Gramsci _ Selections from the Prison

    Possibility means "freedom". The measure of freedom enters into the concept of man. That the objective possibilities exist for people not to die of hunder and that people do die of hunger, has its importance, or so one would have thought. But the existence of the objective conditions, of possibilities or of freedom is not yet enough: it is necessary to "know" them, and know how to use them.
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  11. Antonio Gramsci _ Selections from the Prison

    Ideas and opinions are not spontaneously "born" in each individual brain: they have had a centre of formation, or irradiation, of dissemination, of persuasion-a group of men, or a single individual even, which has developed them and presented them in the political form of current reality.
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  12. J.K. Rowling _ Harry Potter and the Order of

    His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.
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