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Knowledge Quotes
"Technical knowledge has now become an integral aspect of the Iranian psyche."
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"Thus, in accordance with the spirit of the Historical School, knowledge of the principles of the human world falls within that world itself, and the human sciences form an independent system."
26
"Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in your seeds."
22
"A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle."
21
"True, some land was bought by a few Cabinet Ministers. They bought the land. No minister, to my knowledge acquired land which was meant for resettlement."
21
"A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very beginning. One must learn from him who knows."
20
"Without knowledge action is useless and knowledge without action is futile."
20
"Nevertheless, I consider OOP as an aspect of programming in the large; that is, as an aspect that logically follows programming in the small and requires sound knowledge of procedural programming."
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"If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are the conditions for development."
19
"Historic changes and challenges. Breakthroughs in human knowledge and opportunity. And yet, for vast numbers across the globe, the daily realities have not altered."
19
"He uses statistics like a drunk uses lamp-posts, more for support than illumination."
18
"The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes."
17
"To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge."
14
"A number of scientists with greatly different backgrounds can come up with completely different assessments. The discussions or controversies are endless. Once a year, we try to bring the most important discoverers together to exchange their experiences and knowledge."
14
"It is with children that we have the best chance of studying the development of logical knowledge, mathematical knowledge, physical knowledge, and so forth."
12
"When knowledge is limited - it leads to folly... When knowledge exceeds a certain limit, it leads to exploitation."
11
"It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill."
10
"Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing."
9
"The role of the teacher is to create the conditions for invention rather than provide ready-made knowledge."
9
"Besides the practical knowledge which defeat offers, there are important personality profits to be taken."
8
"That the state of knowledge in any country will exert a directive influence on the general system of instruction adopted in it, is a principle too obvious to require investigation."
7
"All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason."
6
"Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; an argument an exchange of ignorance."
5
"The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others."
5
"It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment."
4
"If you know you are on the right track, if you have this inner knowledge, then nobody can turn you off... no matter what they say."
4
"The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side."
3
"Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge."
3
"The courage of a soldier is heightened by his knowledge of his profession."
3
"Who of us knows or can by possibility arrive at a knowledge of the laws that govern our property and lives?"
2
"The more I learn, the more doors of information and opportunity are open to me."
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