Voltaire  - Quotes

 It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge. 

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various  - Quotes

 Acquire knowledge. It enables its possessor to distinguish right from wrong. It lights the way to heaven. It is our friend in the desert, our society in solitude, our compassion when friendless. It guides us to happiness. It sustains us in misery. It is an ornament among friends and an armor against enemies. 

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The Mexican  - Quotes

 Samantha:
All right. Jerry, I want you to acknowledge that my needs means nothing to you and you're a selfish prick and a liar.
Jerry:
Oh, my God!
Samantha:
Jerry, acknowledge.
Jerry:
I... Ok. I will acknowledge that I promised to go to Vegas with you. But now we're just slightly delayed. If you want to construe my wanting to stay alive as being selfish, well, then okay. But I have every intention of going with you because your needs are very important to me, sweetheart. Come on. Look at my all my stuff here, all over the pavement. Come on, baby? Huh? What do you say? Ok?
Samantha:
I'm going with or without you, Jerry. What's it gonna be? A bastard!
Jerry:
A bastard. What happened to, uh, "sweetheart" and "big love" and all those things you called me in the bedroom last night?
Samantha:
The only thing I'm interested in calling you, Jerry, is a cab!
 



Oprah Winfrey  - Quotes

 When you know better you do better. 

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Joseph Conrad  - Quotes

 They trespassed upon my thoughts. They were intruders whose knowledge of life was to me an irritating pretense, because I felt so sure they could not possibly know the things I knew. Their bearing, which was simply the bearing of commonplace individuals going about their business in the assurance of perfect safety, was offensive to me like the outrageous flauntings of folly in the face of a danger it is unable to comprehend. I had no particular desire to enlighten them, but I had some difficulty in restraining myself from laughing in their faces, so full of stupid importance. 

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Batman Forever  - Quotes

 The Riddler:
For if knowledge is power, then a GOD AM *I*! [pauses]
The Riddler:
Was that over the top? I can never tell.
 

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Frequency  - Quotes

 John Sullivan:
Do exactly what I say ok?
Gordo Hersch:
Bull hicky. You can't tell me what to do.
John Sullivan:
Don't screw with me you little pisher, I know everything about you. I have complete knowledge of the universe.
Gordo Hersch:
That's not true, only God knows...
John Sullivan:
Oh, yeah well who put rubber cement in the coach's jockstrap, or who put the frog in Melissa Gluckman's locker and lets not forget about grandpa's laxative in the sweet potatoes last Thanksgiving. You did all that.
Gordo Hersch:
What do you want Mister?
John Sullivan:
Ok...
 

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Marie de France  - Quotes

 Whoever has received knowledge

and eloquence in speech from God

should not be silent or secretive

but demonstrate it willingly.

When a great good is widely heard of,

then, and only then, does it bloom,

and when that good is praised by man,

it has spread its blossoms.
 

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The Other Boleyn Girl  - Quotes

 Anne Boleyn:
Henry Percy
George Boleyn:
[Teasingly] Why ever would he interest you? What could you possibly want with the sole heir to the richest earldom in the whole of England?
Anne Boleyn:
[Jokingly] Oh I have no knowledge of that! I simply like his face!
George Boleyn:
Well, he's betrothed
Anne Boleyn:
Betrothed is not married
 

Jurassic Park  - Quotes

 Dr. Ian Malcolm:
I'll tell you the problem with the scientific power that you're using here: it didn't require any discipline to attain it. You read what others had done and you took the next step. You didn't earn the knowledge for yourselves, so you don't take any responsibility... for it. You stood on the shoulders of geniuses to accomplish something as fast as you could and before you even knew what you had you patented it and packaged it and slapped it on a plastic lunchbox, and now [pounds table with fists]
Dr. Ian Malcolm:
you're selling it, [pounds table again]
Dr. Ian Malcolm:
you want to sell it!
 

Halo  - Quotes

 Cortana:
[at the Control Room control panel] There, try that.
The Master Chief:
[the Master Chief puts Cortana's AI chip into the panel] You okay?
Cortana:
Never been better! You can't imagine the wealth of knowledge here. So much so fast! It's glorious!
The Master Chief:
So, what kind of weapon is it?
Cortana:
What are you talking about?
The Master Chief:
Let's stay focused, now. Halo; how do we use it against the Covenant?
Cortana:
This ring isn't a cudgel, you barbarian, it's something else. Something much more important. Gimme a second to access... Yes, this ring, it's forerunner. The forerunner built this ring, what they call a fortress world, in order to... Wait... no, that can't be... Oh, those Covenant fools! They must have known! There must have been signs!
The Master Chief:
Slow down; you're losin' me.
Cortana:
The Covenant found something, buried in this ring, something terrible, and now, they're afraid.
The Master Chief:
Something buried? Wha...
Cortana:
THE CAPTAIN! WE'VE GOT TO STOP THE CAPTAIN!
The Master Chief:
Keyes?
Cortana:
The weapons cache he's looking for it's not really... it doesn't really exist!
The Master Chief:
[tired and confused] I don't understa...
Cortana:
-There's no time! Get out of here, find Keyes, stop him! [the Master Chief runs out of the room]
Cortana:
BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE!
 

Salman Rushdie  - Quotes

 A book is a product of a pact with the Devil that inverts the Faustian contract, he'd told Allie. Dr Faustus sacrificed eternity in return for two dozen years of power; the writer agrees to the ruination of his life, and gains (but only if he's lucky) maybe not eternity, but posterity, at least. Either way (this was Jumpy's point) it's the Devil who wins. 

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Everyone Says I Love You  - Quotes

 Joe:
My knowledge of art is limited to Kirk Douglas as Vincent VanGogh.
 

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Syriana  - Quotes

 Bob Barnes:
If anything happens to me or my family, an accident, an accusation, anything, then first your son will disappear, his body will never be found. Then your wife. Her body will never be found either. This is guaranteed. Then, whatever is the most dangerous thing you do in your life, it might be flying in a small plane, it might be walking to the bank, you will be killed. Do you understand what I'm saying? I want you to acknowledge that you do understand so that we're clear and there won't be any mistakes.
Dean Whiting:
Beirut rules, Mr. Barnes?
 

Nikki Sixx  - Quotes

 You know, it's pretty easy reading this book to see why I was angry and confused for all those years. I lived my life being told different stories: some true, some lies and I still don't know which is which. Children are born innocent. At birth we are very much like a new hard drive - no viruses, no bad information, no crap that's been downloaded into it yet. It's what we feed into that hard drive, or in my case  

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Samuel Johnson  - Quotes

 Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it. 

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Abigail Adams  - Quotes

 Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since.  

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A Beautiful Mind  - Quotes

 Nash:
[to Thomas King] I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to acknowledge them. Like a diet of the mind, I just choose not to indulge certain appetites; like my appetite for patterns; perhaps my appetite to imagine and to dream.
 

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Amistad  - Quotes

 John Quincy Adams:
[to the court] James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington... John Adams. We've long resisted asking you for guidance. Perhaps we have feared in doing so, we might acknowledge that our individuality, which we so, so revere, is not entirely our own. Perhaps we've feared an... an appeal to you might be taken for weakness. But, we've come to understand, finally, that this is not so. We understand now, we've been made to understand, and to embrace the understanding... that who we are *is* who we were. We desperately need your strength and wisdom to triumph over our fears, our prejudices, ourselves. Give us the courage to do what is right. And if it means civil war? Then let it come. And when it does, may it be, finally, the last battle of the American Revolution.
 

Fresh  - Quotes

 Fresh:
It was fun, dad, stupid fun, you seen that nigger's face...
Sam:
Chess ain't fun, boy, how many times do I gotta tell you that? Don't you listen to a word I say?
Fresh:
Maybe if I seen you more...
Sam:
Well you don't, so you be well served to retain some of the knowledge I'm imparting to you, rather than giving me all this hard ass street attitude bullshit.
 

Half Nelson  - Quotes

 Dan:
Who might say that Aristotle's wrong, right? But that doesn't make any sense; these things need each other. The idea that... that all God's creations are perfect, perfect - so just to suggest that - that a tree it's - it's crooked and it's straight... it's strong and it's weak... is to suggest that - that God created something imperfect. They do however acknowledge it in people; we are sinners but we can strive to be good just not in nature itself I guess.
 

Mortimer J. Adler  - Quotes

 The ability to retain a child's view of the world with at the same time a mature understanding of what it means to retain it, is extremely rare - and a person who has these qualities is likely to be able to contribute something really important to our thinking. 

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Leonardo da Vinci  - Quotes

 The acquisition of knowledge is always of use to the intellect, because it may thus drive out useless things and retain the good. For nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first known. 

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Mortimer J. Adler  - Quotes

 There are genuine mysteries in the world that mark the limits of human knowing and thinking. Wisdom is fortified, not destroyed, by understanding its limitations. Ignorance does not make a fool as surely as self-deception. 

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Robert Anton Wilson  - Quotes

 The Copenhagen Interpretation is sometimes called  

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Hulk  - Quotes

 Dr. David Banner:
And what have I done to my son, Miss Ross? Nothing. I tried to improve on the limits in myself. Myself, not him. Can you understand? To improve on nature, MY nature, knowledge of one's self. It's the only path to the truth that gives men the power to go beyond God's boundaries.
 

Randy Pausch  - Quotes

 ... I was hugely impressed... was the ultimate example of a man who knew what he didn't know, was perfectly willing to admit it, and didn't want to leave until he understood. That's heroic to me.



I wish every grad student had that attitude.
 

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Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen  - Quotes

 
[Mikaela discovers Wheelie and captures him]
Wheelie:
Is that the best you got, huh? Is that the best you can do?
Mikaela Banes:
What are you doing here, you little freak? [she grabs a blowtorch, and burns Wheelie's right eye off]
Wheelie:
That's my eye, you crazy bitch! [clips a blue eye over his injured one as a replacement]
Mikaela Banes:
You gonna talk now?
Wheelie:
I seek knowledge from the Cube. The Fallen demands me!
Mikaela Banes:
What knowledge?
Wheelie:
You got the shard, I need the shard. Give me the shard. I need the shard. They're gonna whack me! I'm gonna be dead with that shard! [Mikaela toys with Wheelie's good eye with the blowtorch]
Wheelie:
Easy, Warrior Goddess, I'm just a little salvage-scrap drone!
Mikaela Banes:
Then I'm your worst nightmare!
Wheelie:
Hey, hey, hey! [Mikaela grabs Wheelie and stuffs him in a box]
 

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Mahatma Gandhi  - Quotes

 Seven Deadly Sins



Wealth without work

Pleasure without conscience

Science without humanity

Knowledge without character

Politics without principle

Commerce without morality

Worship without sacrifice.
 

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Cormac McCarthy  - Quotes

 That which exists without my knowledge exists without my consent. 

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Eoin Colfer  - Quotes

 Confidence is ignorance. If you're feeling cocky, it's because there's something you don't know. 

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Black Dynamite  - Quotes

 Black Dynamite:
Your knowledge of scientific biological transmogrification is only outmatched by your zest for kung-fu treachery!
 

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John Calvin  - Quotes

 It would be the height of absurdity to label ignorance tempered by humility  

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Mission: Impossible II  - Quotes

 Mission Commander Swanbeck:
Good morning, Mr. Hunt. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, involves the recovery of a stolen item designated "Chimera." You may select any two team members, but it is essential that the third member of your team be Nyah Nordoff-Hall. She is a civilian, and a highly capable professional thief. You have forty-eight hours to recruit Miss Hall and meet me in Seville to receive your assignment. As always, should any member of your team be caught or killed, the Secretary will disavow all knowledge of your actions. And Mr. Hunt, the next time you go on holiday, please be good enough to let us know where you're going. This message will self-destruct in five seconds.
Ethan Hunt:
If I let you know where I'm going, I won't be on holiday.
 

Starship Troopers  - Quotes

 General Owen:
I had to evade capture. The lives of the Federation were at stake.
Ace Levy:
[background] Fire in the Hole! [explosion]
General Owen:
[startled by the explosion] I have operational knowledge of what were up to out here.
Jean Rasczak:
[to Diz] Dizzi, give me a status report.
Johnny Rico:
[softly] She's working on it.
General Owen:
[points to a dead soldier with his head hollowed out] Here, they did it to Farley, they got into his mind. They made Farley call Headquarters.
Johnny Rico:
The distress call was a trap.
General Owen:
They're just like us. They wanna know what makes us tick. They wanna know us, so they can KILL us!
Jean Rasczak:
[into his radio] This is Rasczak, prepare for attack. I repeat, prepare for attack!
 

Ursula K. Le Guin  - Quotes

 To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: this skill is most needful in times of stress and darkness. 

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Edward W. Said  - Quotes

 All knowledge that is about human society, and not about the natural world, is historical knowledge, and therefore rests upon judgment and interpretation. This is not to say that facts or data are nonexistent, but that facts get their importance from what is made of them in interpretation 

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Carl Sagan  - Quotes

 Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective. 

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Toba Beta  - Quotes

 For millenia, scientists always try to measure

the size of this vast universe. One way to know

that is first to find the smallest single thing that

constructs this universe. When they get it, the

real measurement of universe can be understood for sure.
 

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Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me  - Quotes

 Number Two:
Why not use your knowledge of the future to play the stock markets? We could make trillions.
Dr. Evil:
Why make a trillion when we could make... billions?
Scott:
A trillion's more than a billion, numbnuts.
 

Little Black Book  - Quotes

 Barb:
Knowledge is a terrible and marvelous thing.
 

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Timeline  - Quotes

 Chris Johnston:
The way I see it, we've got what, we've got 650 years of knowledge on these guys. If we put our heads together, there's no reason why we shouldn't be able to get out of here and home in 20 minutes.
 

The Village  - Quotes

 Ivy Walker:
[after Noah hands her some red berries] Oh, berries! What a splendid present!
Lucius Hunt:
Be cautious. You are holding the bad color.
Ivy Walker:
[becomes worried, covors the berries with her hands] This color attracts Those We Don't Speak Of. [Turning to Noah]
Ivy Walker:
You ought not pick that colour berry anymore. [Noah nods]
Lucius Hunt:
[In a hushed whisper] He picked it from his pocket.
Ivy Walker:
Your breathing has changed. What's wrong?
Lucius Hunt:
[to Noah] If you did not pick this now, where did you get it? [Noah takes Lucius's hand and leads him through the forest. Cut to scene where we hear Lucius addressing the Elders]
Lucius Hunt:
Today at resting rock, Noah Percy handed Ivy Walker berries of the bad color. When asked where he had found these berries, for they were unlike any I have seen, he pointd to the drawing on Resting Rock. It is my knowledge that Noah has traveled into the woods on many occasions. It also confirms my belief that the creatures did not harm Noah because of his innocence, and they would let me through to fetch medicines.
 

Haruki Murakami  - Quotes

 Beyond the edge of the world there 

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Friedrich Nietzsche  - Quotes

 The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends. 

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Leonardo da Vinci  - Quotes

 All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge. 

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The Rock  - Quotes

 John Mason:
I have a unique knowledge of this prison facility. I was formerly a guest here.
 

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The Cypherian  - Quotes

 Gabriel:
To the best of our knowledge no one, from either above or below, had any hand in the creation of this child.
Lucifer:
Even I have to admit I wouldn't have taken such a chance in these times. The world is teetering on total chaos.
Servius Augustus Cyriacus:
Sounds like that would be right up your alley.
Lucifer:
Hey, I may want management privileges someday, but I still want it in one piece.
 

Roland Barthes  - Quotes

 [Photography] allows me to accede to an infra-knowledge; it supplies me with a collection of partial objects and can flatter a certain fetishism of mine: for this 'me' which like knowledge, which nourishes a kind of amorous preference for it. In the same way, I like certain biographical features which, in a writer's life, delight me as much as certain photographs; I have called these features 'biographemes'; Photography has the same relation to History that the biographeme has to biography. 

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Carl Sagan  - Quotes

 We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. 

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Ayn Rand  - Quotes

 Learn to distinguish the difference between errors of knowledge and breaches of morality. An error of knowledge is not a moral flaw, provided you are willing to correct it; only a mystic would judge human beings by the standard of an impossible, automatic omniscience. But a breach of morality is the conscious choice of an action you know to be evil, or a willful evasion of knowledge, a suspension of sight and of thought. That which you do not know, is not a moral charge against you; but that which you refuse to know, is an account of infamy growing in your soul. Make every allowance for errors of knowledge; do not forgive or accept any break of morality. 

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Hermann Hesse  - Quotes

 I felt knowledge and the unity of the world circulate in me like my own blood. 

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Lisa Kleypas  - Quotes

 Captain Phelan and I dislike each other, 

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Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones  - Quotes

 Count Dooku:
It is obvious that this contest cannot be decided by our knowledge of the Force... but by our skills with a lightsaber.
 

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Aiko Uemura  - Quotes

 Doubt  

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Sherman Alexie  - Quotes

 You read a book for the story, for each of its words, 

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Aldous Huxley  - Quotes

 Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself. 

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Mark Twain  - Quotes

 I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn 

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Rick Riordan  - Quotes

 Knowing too much of your future is never a good thing. 

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Toba Beta  - Quotes

 There's no guarantee of disaster-free in any world religion,

but love, faith and knowledge give men hope and willpower.
 

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