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|01 = '''I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.'''<br />&mdash;[[Margaret Mead]]
|01 = '''I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.'''<br />
|02 = '''No man is wise enough by himself.'''<br />&mdash;[[Titus Maccius Plautus]] (254 BC - 184 BC), ''Miles Gloriosus''
      <cite style="font-size:0.9em;">&mdash;[[Margaret Mead]]</cite>
|03 = '''Share your knowledge. It's a way to achieve immortality.'''<br />&mdash;Jackson Brown and H. Jackson Brown, Jr., ''Life's Little Instruction Book''
|02 = '''No man is wise enough by himself.'''<br />
|04 = '''Knowledge is power.'''<br />&mdash;[[Sir Francis Bacon]] (1561 - 1626), ''Religious Meditations, Of Heresies''
      <cite style="font-size:0.9em;">&mdash;[[Titus Maccius Plautus]] (254 BC - 184 BC), ''Miles Gloriosus''</cite>
|05 = '''Knowledge is the true organ of sight, not the eyes.'''<br />&mdash;From the [[Panchatantra|Panchatantra]] [http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/440899/Panchatantra (Indian literature)]
|03 = '''Share your knowledge. It's a way to achieve immortality.'''<br />
|06 = '''It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.'''<br />&mdash;[[Enrico Fermi]] (1901 - 1954)
      <cite style="font-size:0.9em;">&mdash;Jackson Brown and H. Jackson Brown, Jr., ''Life's Little Instruction Book''</cite>
|07 = '''The ink of the learned is equal in merit to the blood of the martyrs.'''<br />&mdash;[[Louis de Bernières]], ''Birds Without Wings''
|04 = '''Knowledge is power.'''<br />
|08 = '''There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.'''<br />&mdash;[[Socrates]] (469 BC - 399 BC), ''Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers''
      <cite style="font-size:0.9em;">&mdash;[[Sir Francis Bacon]] (1561 - 1626), ''Religious Meditations, Of Heresies''</cite>
|09 = '''Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.'''<br />&mdash;[[Benjamin Spock|Dr. Benjamin Spock]] (1903-1998)
|05 = '''Knowledge is the true organ of sight, not the eyes.'''<br />
|10 = '''If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.'''<br />&mdash;Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992)
      <cite style="font-size:0.9em;">&mdash;From the [[Panchatantra|Panchatantra]] [http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/440899/Panchatantra (Indian literature)]</cite>
|11 = '''A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.'''<br />&mdash;[[Kahlil Gibran]]
|06 = '''It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.'''<br />
|12 = '''If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.'''<br />&mdash;[[Margaret Fuller|Margaret Fuller]] (1810-1850)  
      <cite style="font-size:0.9em;">&mdash;[[Enrico Fermi]] (1901 - 1954)</cite>
|07 = '''The ink of the learned is equal in merit to the blood of the martyrs.'''<br />
      <cite style="font-size:0.9em;">&mdash;[[Louis de Bernières]], ''Birds Without Wings''</cite>
|08 = '''There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.'''<br />
      <cite style="font-size:0.9em;">&mdash;[[Socrates]] (469 BC - 399 BC), ''Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers''</cite>
|09 = '''Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.'''<br />
      <cite style="font-size:0.9em;">&mdash;[[Benjamin Spock|Dr. Benjamin Spock]] (1903-1998)</cite>
|10 = '''If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.'''<br />
      <cite style="font-size:0.9em;">&mdash;Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992)</cite>
|11 = '''A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.'''<br />
      <cite style="font-size:0.9em;">&mdash;[[Kahlil Gibran]]</cite>
|12 = '''If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.'''<br />
      <cite style="font-size:0.9em;">&mdash;[[Margaret Fuller|Margaret Fuller]] (1810-1850)</cite>
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