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Knowledge Quotes
"The knowledge that there is a part of the psychic functions that are out of conscious reach, we did not need to wait for Freud to know this!"
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"On our plane knowledge and ignorance are the immemorial adversaries."
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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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"Don't run around looking for someone who can sexually satisfy you, run around and look for the book which will intellectually satisfy you."
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"All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason."
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"Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge."
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"A theoretical grounding in agronomy must, therefore, include knowledge of biological laws."
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"A man's grammar, like Caesar's wife, should not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity."
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"If we don't empower ourselves with knowledge, then we're gonna be led down a garden path."
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"Most of our assumptions have outlived their uselessness."
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"I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books."
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"How often people speak of art and science as though they were two entirely different things, with no interconnection. An artist is emotional, they think, and uses only his intuition; he sees all at once and has no need of reason. A scientist is cold, they think, and uses only his reason; he argues carefully step by step, and needs no imagination. That is all wrong. The true artist is quite rational as well as imaginative and knows what he is doing; if he does not, his art suffers. The true scientist is quite imaginative as well as rational, and sometimes leaps to solutions where reason can follow only slowly; if he does not, his science suffers."
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"But the egoist has no ideals, for the knowledge that his ideals are only his ideals, frees him from their domination. He acts for his own interest, not for the interest of ideals."
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"Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession - a property entirely our own."
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"Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are not."
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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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"We are all bits and pieces of history and literature and international law."
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"The remarkable position in which we find ourselves is that we don't actually know what we actually know."
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"To remove this obstacle I repeat or refer to such knowledge as has come under my notice, my own previously expressed views, and also describe and exhibit my last experiments and explain their novelty and utility."
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"No one person invented Mulberry. The knowledge that we had to have this floating harbor slowly grew."
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"The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head."
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"It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance."
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"The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it."
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"That knowledge which is popular is not scientific."
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"If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it."
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"We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed."
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"If I want to understand an individual human being, I must lay aside all scientific knowledge of the average man and discard all theories in order to adopt a completely new and unprejudiced attitude. I can only approach the task of understanding with a free and open mind, whereas knowledge of man, or insight into human character, presupposes all sorts of knowledge about mankind in general."
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"So long as these kinds of inequalities persist, all of us who are given expensive educations have to live with the knowledge that our victories are contaminated because the game has been rigged to our advantage."
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"The apple cannot be stuck back on the Tree of Knowledge; once we begin to see, we are doomed and challenged to seek the strength to see more, not less."
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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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"How can we understand the world and the universe when we haven't even understood ourselves?"
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"Imagine the people who believe such things and who are not ashamed to ignore, totally, all the patient findings of thinking minds through all the centuries since the Bible was written. And it is these ignorant people, the most uneducated, the most unimaginative, the most unthinking among us, who would make themselves the guides and leaders of us all; who would force their feeble and childish beliefs on us; who would invade our schools and libraries and homes. I personally resent it bitterly."
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"Sometimes a cigar is only a cigar."
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"Our heads are filled with 'knowledge', a knowledge that in some areas pre-empts our seeing anything at all."
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