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  • Valuing knowledge above all else results in a lust for power, and that leads men into dark and empty places. -- Veronica Roth
  • Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice. -- Anton Chekhov
  • The aim of education is the knowledge not of facts but of values. -- William Ralph Inge
  • The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values. -- William Ralph Inge
  • When we value correct principles, we have truth - a knowledge of things as they are. -- Stephen Covey
  • If we want our children to value education, then we must show our appreciation for knowledge. -- Brad Sherman
  • Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values. -- Sidney Hook
  • The big value of the founder running the company is really two things: the knowledge and the commitment. -- Ben Horowitz
  • Universities exist to transmit knowledge and understanding of ideas and values to students not to provide entertainment for spectators or employment for athletes. -- Milton Friedman
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  • Hackerspaces are the digital-age equivalent of English Enlightenment coffee houses. They are places open to all, indifferent to social status, and where ideas and knowledge hold primary value. -- Heather Brooke
  • Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are not. -- Raoul Vaneigem
  • A great many things which in times of lesser knowledge we imagined to be superstitious or useless, prove today on examination to have been of immense value to mankind. -- Lafcadio Hearn
  • Real knowledge, like everything else of value, is not to be obtained easily. It must be worked for, studied for, thought for, and, more that all, must be prayed for. -- Thomas Arnold
  • One of the great problems of philosophy is the relationship between the realm of knowledge and the realm of values. Knowledge is what is; values are what ought to be. -- Jacques Monod
  • The Founders believed liberty came directly from God. With their knowledge of Scripture, they knew each child was made in the image of God. That is why everyone had dignity, value and worth. -- Gary Bauer
  • For me, human rights simply endorse a view of life and a set of moral values that are perfectly clear to an eight-year-old child. A child knows what is fair and isn't fair, and justice derives from that knowledge. -- Tom Stoppard
  • Not only does neoliberalism undermine both civic education and public values and confuse education with training, it also treats knowledge as a product, promoting a neoliberal logic that views schools as malls, students as consumers, and faculty as entrepreneurs. -- Henry Giroux
  • I was brought up in a family which valued natural history. Both my parents knew the names of all the British wildflowers, so as we went walking the country, I was constantly being exposed to a natural history sort of knowledge. -- Richard Dawkins
  • As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
  • I'm not saying that atheists can't act morally or have moral knowledge. But when I ascribe virtue to an atheist, it's as a theist who sees the atheist as conforming to objective moral values. The atheist, by contrast, has no such basis for morality. And yet all moral judgments require a basis for morality, some standard of right and wrong. -- William A. Dembski
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