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Knowledge can be its own end and its own reward
Drawn from what John Henry Newman said
What John Henry Newman actually said
- John Henry Newman English theologian and cardinal (1801 to 1890)
Knowledge is capable of being its own end. Such is the constitution of the human mind, that any kind of knowledge, if it be really such, is its own reward.
Where this was said
↗The Idea of a University, Part I: University Teaching (Discourses, 1852)gutenberg.org
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