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#knowledge

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Your aim will be knowledge and wisdom, not the reflected glamour of fame.


Abbott L. Lowell


#fame #glamour #knowledge #reflected #will

A screen actor is compensated in the knowledge that millions will see his performance at one time, where only hundreds will see it on the stage.


Bela Lugosi


#compensated #his #hundreds #knowledge #millions

One can decide that the principal role of knowledge is as an indispensable element in the functioning of society, and act in accordance with that decision, only if one has already decided that society is a giant machine.


Jean-Francois Lyotard


#act #already #decide #decided #decision

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.


Jean-Francois Lyotard


#cases #consumed #exchange #goal #knowledge

Our working hypothesis is that the status of knowledge is altered as societies enter what is known as the postindustrial age and cultures enter what is known as the postmodern age.


Jean-Francois Lyotard


#altered #cultures #enter #hypothesis #knowledge

Close contact between science and the practice of collective farms and State farms creates inexhaustible opportunities for the development of theoretical knowledge, enabling us to learn ever more and more about the nature of living bodies and the soil.


Trofim Lysenko


#between #bodies #close #collective #contact

You cannot blame the mismanagement of the economy or the fact that we have not invested adequately in education in order to give our people the knowledge, the skills and the technology that they need in order to be able to use the resources that Africa has to gain wealth.


Wangari Maathai


#adequately #africa #blame #cannot #economy

The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners.


Thomas B. Macaulay


#knowledge #logic #make #men #tendency

The presentations and conceptions of the average man of the world are formed and dominated, not by the full and pure desire for knowledge as an end in itself, but by the struggle to adapt himself favourably to the conditions of life.


Ernst Mach


#average #average man #conceptions #conditions #desire

Education in the light of present-day knowledge and need calls for some spirited and creative innovations both in the substance and the purpose of current pedagogy.


Anne Sullivan Macy


#calls #creative #current #education #innovations






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