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Knowledge Quotes
"You're like candy. People lick your knowledge to become wise, lick your words from your powerful mouth and say it even better than you. Lick each step you make and stay on a good track, and once you're dead, the lickers scavenge for another intellectual candy."
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"Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge."
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"Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn't -it's human."
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"Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge."
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"The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side."
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"The most incredible thing is that you can know everything you wish to know with your eyes closed."
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"If one must fight or create, it is necessary that this be preceded by the broadest possible knowledge."
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"One of the things that is wrong with America is that everybody who has done anything at all in his own field is expected to be an authority on every subject under the sun."
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"The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge."
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"In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory."
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"A great many things which in times of lesser knowledge we imagined to be superstitious or useless, prove today on examination to have been of immense value to mankind."
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"There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words."
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"We do not need to be shoemakers to know if our shoes fit, and just as little have we any need to be professionals to acquire knowledge of matters of universal interest."
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"It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance."
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"Our problem, from the point of view of psychology and from the point of view of genetic epistemology, is to explain how the transition is made from a lower level of knowledge to a level that is judged to be higher."
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"For the progress of scientific knowledge will lead to a constant increase of expenditure."
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"Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again."
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"We don't focus as much in schools on educational knowledge which requires thinking and application, as we do on acquiring facts."
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"Inductive reason, which alone makes man master of his environment, is an achievement; and when once born it must be reinforced by inhibiting the growth of other modes of knowledge."
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"This crisis exposed very significant problems in the financial systems of the United States and some other major economies. Innovation got too far out in front of the knowledge of risk."
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"Like a lamp, dispelling the darkness of ignorance."
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"The view is often defended that sciences should be built up on clear and sharply defined basal concepts. In actual fact no science, not even the most exact, begins with such definitions. The true beginning of scientific activity consists rather in describing phenomena and then in proceeding to group, classify and correlate them."
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"At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes abridged."
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"But because many endeavor to get knowledge rather than to live well, they are often deceived and reap little or no benefit from their labor."
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"You can acquire a lot of knowledge without ever going to school."
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"Why covet a knowledge of new facts? Day and night, house and garden, a few books, a few actions, serve us as well as would all trades and all spectacles. We are far from having exhausted the significance of the few symbols we use. We can come to use them yet with a terrible simplicity."
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"To see from all the "view points is called 'Gnan' [True Knowledge]."
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"There is no revelation in my words. I am merely stating what others have forgotten to write down."
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"It is probably safe to say that all the changes of factual knowledge which have led to the relativity theory, resulting in a very great theoretical development, are completely trivial from any point of view except their relevance to the structure of a theoretical system."
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"The knowledge that we have about what it is to be human that we have as a child is something we necessarily must lose."
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"There is a general knowledge that I am multi-dimensional, that when you are creative you do a lot of things."
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"Knowledge is and will be produced in order to be sold, it is and will be consumed in order to be valorised in a new production: in both cases, the goal is exchange."
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"Play is the beginning of knowledge."
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