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Knowledge Quotes
"I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief."
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"The channels of intuitive knowledge are opened according to the intensity of individual need."
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"The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and take nobody's word about them."
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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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"The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it."
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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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"Those questions which are unexpected and complicated are the ones I appreciate most. They can help me a great deal. as I am compelled to take an interest in something that might not otherwise have occurred to me."
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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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"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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"To ridicule philosophy is really to philosophize."
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"The increased global linkages promote economic growth in the world through two key mechanisms: the division of labor and the international spillovers of knowledge."
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"How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room. There is no such thing as observation of the inner world, as there is of the outer world."
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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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"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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"I do think we know that a teacher who knows what he or she is doing, knows their subject matter, and knows how to impart knowledge to kids is a critical piece of closing the achievement gap."
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"The knowledge of languages was very useful. I have a university degree in foreign languages and literature."
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"For the progress of scientific knowledge will lead to a constant increase of expenditure."
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"That knowledge which is popular is not scientific."
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"A theoretical grounding in agronomy must, therefore, include knowledge of biological laws."
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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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"Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite."
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"Any foolish boy can stamp on a beetle, but all the professors in the world cannot make a beetle."
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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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"Einstein's results again turned the tables and now very few philosophers or scientists still think that scientific knowledge is, or can be, proven 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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"If you think along the lines of Nature then you think properly." from the video "Carl Jung speaks about death."
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"There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words."
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"In fact there is only your own instinct? Not instinct, Hastings. Instinct is a bad word. It is my knowledge-my experience-that tells me that something about that letter is wrong."
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"Careful evaluation of information that is portrayed as fact is critical."
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"We have no firm hold on any knowledge or philosophy that can lift us out of our difficulties."
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"The role of the teacher is to create the conditions for invention rather than provide ready-made knowledge."
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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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"Epistemology is the study of knowledge. By what conduit do we know what we know?"
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"The absolute dependence of a newborn infant inspired many things in me, but it did not activate any magical knowledge about what to do for the next twenty years."
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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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"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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"More students have a better knowledge of pop culture than of the Constitution."
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