#knowledge

The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river; and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future. ↗

— Lord Acton

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Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since. ↗

— Abigail Adams

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To try to write a grand cosmical drama leads necessarily to myth. To try to let knowledge substitute ignorance in increasingly larger regions of space and time is science. ↗

— Hannes Alfven

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The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future. ↗

— Stephen Ambrose

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The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

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All science requires mathematics. The knowledge of mathematical things is almost innate in us. This is the easiest of sciences, a fact which is obvious in that no one's brain rejects it; for laymen and people who are utterly illiterate know how to count and reckon. ↗

— Roger Bacon

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Argument is conclusive, but it does not remove doubt, so that the mind may rest in the sure knowledge of the truth, unless it finds it by the method of experiment. ↗

— Roger Bacon

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All men by nature desire knowledge. ↗

— Aristotle

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The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy. ↗

— Irving Babbitt

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Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions. ↗

— Roger Babson

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