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Anything that gives us new knowledge gives us an opportunity to be more rational. ↗

— Herbert Simon

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Human knowledge has been changing from the word go and people in certain respects behave more rationally than they did when they didn't have it. They spend less time doing rain dances and more time seeding clouds. ↗

— Herbert Simon

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Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge. ↗

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

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Knowledge is generally considered a good thing; so, presumably, knowing more about how the U.S. thinks and operates around the world is also good. ↗

— Peter Singer

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Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever. ↗

— Samuel Smiles

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Even scientific knowledge, if there is anything to it, is not a random observation of random objects; for the critical objectivity of significant knowledge is attained as a practice only philosophically in inner action. ↗

— Karl Jaspers

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I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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Any committee is only as good as the most knowledgeable, determined and vigorous person on it. There must be somebody who provides the flame. ↗

— Lady Bird Johnson

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The problem with allowing God a role in the history of life is not that science would cease, but rather that scientists would have to acknowledge the existence of something important which is outside the boundaries of natural science. ↗

— Phillip E. Johnson

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He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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