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Knowledge Quotes
"Even scientific knowledge, if there is anything to it, is not a random observation of random objects; for the critical objectivity of significant knowledge is attained as a practice only philosophically in inner action."
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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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"You should have a fund of knowledge of something and out of that you make up you mind."
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"Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours."
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"The way I figure, no man has the right to be ignorant. In a country like this, ignorance is a crime. If a man is going to vote, if he's going to take part in his country and its government, then it's up to him to understand."
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"An excessive knowledge of Marxism is a sign of a misspent youth."
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"The hypothesis may be put forward, to be tested by the s subsequent investigation, that this development has been in large part a matter of the reciprocal interaction of new factual insights and knowledge on the one hand with changes in the theoretical system on the other."
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"Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance."
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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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"An isolated person requires correspondence as a means of seeing his ideas as others see them, and thus guarding against the dogmatisms and extravagances of solitary and uncorrected speculation. No man can learn to reason and appraise from a mere perusal of the writing of others. If he live not in the world, where he can observe the public at first hand and be directed toward solid reality by the force of conversation and spoken debate, then he must sharpen his discrimination and regulate his perceptive balance by an equivalent exchange of ideas in epistolary form."
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"In the present state of our knowledge, it would be useless to attempt to speculate on the remote cause of the electrical energy... its relation to chemical affinity is, however, sufficiently evident. May it not be identical with it, and an essential property of matter?"
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"Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases."
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"Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite."
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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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"I've spent quality time in the aerospace community, with my service on two presidential commissions, but at heart, I'm an academic. Being an academic means I don't wield power over person, place or thing. I don't command armies; I don't lead labor unions. All I have is the power of thought."
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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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"True knowledge lies in knowing how to live."
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"Today we recognize that the emotion of disgust evolved as an unconscious defense against biological contamination."
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"I respect knowledge of the psyche. I would be a therapist if I weren't an entertainer."
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"To ridicule philosophy is really to philosophize."
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"Know why certain foods, such as truffles, are expensive. It's not because they taste best."
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"Harvard is first and foremost a university and not a consulting operation, and our job here is to teach and to research and to create knowledge on Asia in conjunction and in cooperation with scholars as well as with political, intellectual, and cultural leaders in Asia."
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"Having instant feedback on twitter to research material I'm considering is an enormous help."
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"The only thing I know is that I know nothing, and i am no quite sure that i know that."
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"Good tests kill flawed theories; we remain alive to guess again."
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"Scientific knowledge is a kind of discourse."
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"The channels of intuitive knowledge are opened according to the intensity of individual need."
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"There can be no proof that Blake's lyric is composed of the best words in the best order; only a conviction, accepted by our knowledge and judgment, that it is so."
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"Yeah, my drum programming especially is based on my knowledge of playing a drum kit. For the bass too, definitely. It was the first thing that I translated any sort of ideas through. It must have shaped it somehow."
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"Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet."
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"Knowledge is not simply another commodity. On the contrary. Knowledge is never used up. It increases by diffusion and grows by dispersion."
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