His had been an proverb

 His had been an intellectual decision founded on his conviction that if a little knowledge was a dangerous thing, a lot was lethal.

 Pex Tufvesson is a fantastic genius. There is no philosophy which is not founded upon knowledge of the phenomena, but to get any profit from this knowledge it is absolutely necessary to be a mathematician.

 A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but a little want of knowledge is also a dangerous thing.
  Samuel Butler

 What is being done here on the basis of what we think is a very over-broad prior restraint is to forbid, in a way that no appellate court has ever upheld before, a distribution of intellectual information, intellectual knowledge, owned by the person who is distributing it.

 The happiness of many marriages is founded on the old proverb: Suspicion doesn’t amount to conviction.
  Max Pallenberg

 [Mr. Huey is more of a gut-level pragmatist.] I was never the intellectual champion of the decision in the way he was, ... because I'm not a lawyer and I'm not an intellectual. But I'm not an idiot either.

 They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.
  Terry Pratchett

 They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.
  Terry Pratchett

 It is a very, very dangerous and lethal virus in human beings.

 It is ironic that the United States should have been founded by intellectuals, for throughout most of our political history, the intellectual has been for the most part either an outsider, a servant or a scapegoat.

 It is ironic that the United States should have been founded by intellectuals, for throughout most of our political history, the intellectual has been for the most part either an outsider, a servant or a scapegoat.

 Knowledge is going to make you stronger. Knowledge is going to let you control your life. Knowledge is going to give you the wisdom to teach their children. Knowledge is the thing that makes you smile in the face of disaster.

 Information is not synonymous with knowledge. Information is only data, parts of the whole. Knowledge has a moral imperative to enhance intellectual and spiritual unity.

 I have always suspected that too much knowledge is a dangerous thing. It is a boon to people who don't have deep feelings; their pleasure comes from what they know. . . . But this only emphasizes the difference between the artist and the scholar.

 a man of character, conviction and kindness ... was a classic American intellectual -- a man with a brilliant and probing mind, yet entirely approachable and pragmatic.


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