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Knowledge Quotes
"If you think along the lines of Nature then you think properly." from the video "Carl Jung speaks about death."
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"I couldn't have made a better shot, if I had been one of those detectives who see a chap walking along the street and deduce that he is a retired manufacturer of poppet valves named Robinson with rheumatism in one arm, living at Clapham."
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"The mysteries I desired to learn of heaven and earth and all that is between could only be taught by experiencing you."
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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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"But, though all our knowledge begins with experience, it by no means follows that all arises out of experience."
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"To be a scholar study math, to be a smart study magic."
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"The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts."
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"Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other."
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"The man who has many answersis often foundin the theaters of informationwhere he offers, graciously,his deep findings.While the man who has only questions,to comfort himself, makes music."
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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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"Knowledge is a weapon. I intend to be formidably armed."
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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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"This means that no single logic is strong enough to support the total construction of human knowledge."
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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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"Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds."
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"Everyone wants a hand in the outcome, a piece of the knowledge."
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"I am conscious of my inability to grasp, in all its details and positive developments, any very large portion of human knowledge."
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"I believe that the quantum of our knowledge will increase considerably in the coming years and that scientists will continue to be amongst the brave voices speaking out."
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"You should not ask questions without knowledge."
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"Magic begins in superstition, and ends in science. ... At every step the history of civilization teaches us how slight and superficial a structure civilization is, and how precariously it is poised upon the apex of a never-extinct volcano of poor and oppressed barbarism, superstition and ignorance. Modernity is a cap superimposed upon the Middle Ages, which always remain."
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"Give me a book, she said. "A book of sermons, anything."What do you want a book for?"I want words. I've got to have more words. I was kept stupid on purpose."
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"Whole areas of knowledge and information have been defined into nonexistence because the system cannot know, understand, control, or measure them."
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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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"When David Marr at MIT moved into computer vision, he generated a lot of excitement, but he hit up against the problem of knowledge representation; he had no good representations for knowledge in his vision systems."
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"Education attainment is a kind of achievement that nobody can seize from us as the assets we own in our regular lives because we earned it with the use of our own knowledge and creativity."
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"Knowledge rooted in experience shapes what we value and as a consequence how we know what we know as well as how we use what we know."
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"Of all the inanimate objects, of all men's creations, books are the nearest to us for they contain our very thoughts, our ambitions, our indignations, our illusions, our fidelity to the truth, and our persistent leanings to error. But most of all they resemble us in their precious hold on life."
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"There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words."
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"The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned."
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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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"Information helps you to see that you're not alone. That there's somebody in Mississippi and somebody in Tokyo who all have wept, who've all longed and lost, who've all been happy. So the library helps you to see, not only that you are not alone, but that you're not really any different from everyone else."
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"A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance."
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