“People live longer today than they ever have. They live happier lives, have more knowledge, more information. All this is the result of communications technology. How is any of that bad?”
— Tom Clancy
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“Thus, in accordance with the spirit of the Historical School, knowledge of the principles of the human world falls within that world itself, and the human sciences form an independent system.”
— Wilhelm Dilthey
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“It is becoming clear that the old platitudes can no longer be maintained, and that if we wish to improve our morals we must first improve our knowledge.”
— Havelock Ellis
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“Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.”
— John Adams
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“No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.”
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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“After the knowledge of, and obedience to, the will of God, the next aim must be to know something of His attributes of wisdom, power, and goodness as evidenced by His handiwork.”
— James Prescott Joule
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“All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God.”
— Voltaire
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“Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive.”
— F. H. Bradley
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“True, some land was bought by a few Cabinet Ministers. They bought the land. No minister, to my knowledge acquired land which was meant for resettlement.”
— Robert Mugabe
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“Intuition does not in itself amount to knowledge, yet cannot be disregarded by philosophers and psychologists.”
— Corliss Lamont
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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.”
— Thomas a Kempis
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