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A quest for knowledge is not a war with faith; spirituality is not usually an infelicitous amalgam of superstition and philistinism; and moral relativism, taken outside midfield, leads inexorably both to heresy and to secular wickedness, which are often identical. ”
With science and reason throughout history, what people believed turned out to be false. So I like to keep an open mind to all perspectives and learn and become more fully realised as a person. I just feel we're never going to know what the full picture is. ”
The U.N. has been focusing on the global goals in terms of trying to fight and eradicate poverty, and I feel like education is at the root of it all. ”
Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men. ”
They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom. ”
To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge. ”
I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge; I am one who is fond of antiquity, and earnest in seeking it there. ”
When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge. ”
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance. ”
We will have to stand up for and promote the power and promise of free markets and free peoples, and affirm that American preeminence safeguards rather than impedes global progress. ”