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Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing. ↗

— John Locke

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No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience. ↗

— John Locke

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The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others. ↗

— John Locke

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

— Abbott L. Lowell

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

— Thomas B. Macaulay

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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

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I think it will be found that experience, the true source and foundation of all knowledge, invariably confirms its truth. ↗

— Thomas Malthus

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It is an acknowledged truth in philosophy that a just theory will always be confirmed by experiment. ↗

— Thomas Malthus

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But what I will do is I'll acknowledge it and if it can be of any help the fact that I do acknowledge it then maybe other people will benefit from it because I do have somewhat of a public forum being in the line of work I am. ↗

— Joe Mantegna

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Besides the practical knowledge which defeat offers, there are important personality profits to be taken. ↗

— William Moulton Marston

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