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  • Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education. -- Henry Adams
  • Science is knowledge arranged and classified according to truth, facts, and the general laws of nature. -- Luther Burbank
  • Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values. -- Sidney Hook
  • Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance. -- William Ellery Channing
  • Since Plato, we have been considering the nature of knowledge, the meaning of meaning and the status of the physical world. -- Julian Baggini
  • Sun-worship and pure forms of nature-worship were, in their day, noble religions, highly allegorical but full of profound truth and knowledge. -- Annie Besant
  • There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge... observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination. -- Denis Diderot
  • We need to think more about the nature of rhetoric in anthropology. There isn't a body of knowledge and thought to fall back on in this regard. -- Clifford Geertz
  • Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
  • The true nature of soul is right knowledge, right faith and right conduct. The soul, so long as it is subject to transmigration, is undergoing evolution and involution. -- Virchand Gandhi
  • I would call myself a Gnostic. Which means, I'm interested in pursuing and understanding the spiritual nature of things. A Gnostic is somebody seeking knowledge of that aspect of reality. -- Robert Crumb
  • Electrical science has revealed to us the true nature of light, has provided us with innumerable appliances and instruments of precision, and has thereby vastly added to the exactness of our knowledge. -- Nikola Tesla
  • The increase of scientific knowledge lies not only in the occasional milestones of science, but in the efforts of the very large body of men who with love and devotion observe and study nature. -- Polykarp Kusch
  • Frequently, I have been asked if an experiment I have planned is pure or applied research; to me, it is more important to know if the experiment will yield new and probably enduring knowledge about nature. -- William Shockley
  • Through the continued accumulation of detailed and reliable knowledge about elementary reactions, we will be in a better position to understand, predict and control many time-dependent macroscopic chemical processes which are important in nature or to human society. -- Yuan T. Lee
  • 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
  • To deal with these problems - of world population and hunger, of peace, of energy and mineral resources, of environmental pollution, of poverty - we must broaden and deepen our knowledge of nature's laws, and we must broaden and deepen our understanding of the laws of human behavior. -- Herbert A. Simon
  • To-day it appears as though it may well be altogether abolished in the future as it has to some extent been mitigated in the past by the unceasing, and as it now appears, unlimited ascent of man to knowledge, and through knowledge to physical power and dominion over Nature. -- Frederick Soddy
  • Scientists and philosophers tend to treat knowledge, imagination and love as if they were all very separate parts of human nature. But when it comes to children, all three are deeply entwined. Children learn the truth by imagining all the ways the world could be, and testing those possibilities. -- Alison Gopnik
  • I think to be a great quarterback, you have to have a great leadership, great attention to detail, and a relentless competitive nature. And that's what I try to bring to the table, and I have a long way to go. I'm still learning, and I'm still on a constant quest for knowledge. -- Russell Wilson
  • All men by nature desire knowledge. -- Aristotle
  • The volume of Nature is the book of knowledge. -- Oliver Goldsmith
  • Darkness is drowned by three lights; nature, knowledge, and truth. -- Barbra Annino
  • Nature has given us the seeds of knowledge, not knowledge itself. -- Seneca the Younger
  • Where nature is concerned, familiarity breeds love and knowledge, not contempt. -- Stewart Udall
  • Characterization requires self-knowledge, insight into human nature . . . it is more than impersonation. -- Leon Surmelian
  • That a religion may be true, it must have knowledge of our nature. -- Blaise Pascal
  • All other knowledge is hurtful to him who has not honesty and good-nature -- Michel de Montaigne
  • It seems a pity that psychology has destroyed all our knowledge of human nature. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
  • The force fields of nature are force fields of consciousness. They are force fields of knowledge. -- Deepak Chopra
  • Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so called scientific knowledge. -- Thomas A. Edison
  • The initial step for us all to come to knowledge of God is contemplation of nature. -- Irenaeus of Lyons
  • That which is lacking in the present world is a profound knowledge of the nature of things. -- Frithjof Schuon
  • Those who have a tolerable knowledge of human nature will not stand in need of such lights. -- Alexander Hamilton
  • Experimentation is the least arrogant method of gaining knowledge. The experimenter humbly asks a question of nature. -- Isaac Asimov
  • The greatest good is the knowledge of the union which the mind has with the whole nature. -- Baruch Spinoza
  • Knowledge and increase of enduring joy From the great Nature that exists in works Of mighty Poets. -- William Wordsworth
  • The main obstacle to our development is our lack of knowledge about the nature of consciousness itself. -- David Hawkins
  • Art completes what nature cannot bring to finish. The artist gives us knowledge of nature's unrealized ends. -- Aristotle
  • All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men. -- Matthew Arnold
  • That good sense which nature affords us is preferable to most of the knowledge that we can acquire. -- Philippe de Commines
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  • Nothing in nature is by chance... Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge. -- Baruch Spinoza
  • Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it. -- Henry Ward Beecher
  • [Scientific humanism is] the only worldview compatible with science's growing knowledge of the real world and the laws of nature. -- Edward O. Wilson
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  • It is not easy to determine the nature of music, or why any one should have a knowledge of it. -- Aristotle
  • There is no such things as magic, though there is such a thing as knowledge of the hidden ways of Nature. -- H. Rider Haggard
  • What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others. -- Georg C. Lichtenberg
  • Anyone with great imagination, of course, is intuitive. Knowledge of any nature, unless put into practical use, becomes of little effect. -- Edgar Cayce
  • The artist's knowledge of his own creative nature is often unconscious; he pursues his mysterious way of life in a strange innocence. -- Dorothy L. Sayers
  • It is my deliberate opinion that the one essential requisite of human welfare in all ways is scientific knowledge of human nature. -- Harriet Martineau
  • Whatever Nature has in store for mankind, unpleasant as it may be, men must accept, for ignorance is never better than knowledge. -- Enrico Fermi
  • The cultures we can look at had already grasped the essential unity of nature. No board of gods can survive that knowledge. -- Jack McDevitt
  • It's possible to satisfy the needs of the inner life by an intimate communion with nature, or by knowledge of the past. -- Adolf Hitler
  • A boy's mind is not so easily sullied as a girl's.... Undesirable knowledge is not an equal shock to the moral nature. -- Elizabeth Missing Sewell
  • We know nothing at all. All our knowledge is but the knowledge of schoolchildren. The real nature of things we shall never know. -- Albert Einstein
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  • Pure knowledge is not imparted by another; it comes unmasked. It is the one that is listening: it is your own true nature. -- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
  • Have you ever considered what anxious thought, what consummate knowledge of human nature, what dearly-bought experiences go into the making of an advertisement? -- William John Locke
  • With organic approaches, women - who have been gardeners for millennia and mothers forever - can rise because of their intimate knowledge of nature. -- Frances Moore Lappé
  • Synchronicity is choreographed by a great, pervasive intelligence that lies at the heart of nature, and is manifest in each of us through intuitive knowledge. -- Deepak Chopra
  • The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism. -- Georg C. Lichtenberg
  • Each of us-adult or child-must earn nature's gift by knowing nature directly, however difficult it may be to glean that knowledge in an urban environment. -- Richard Louv
  • Socrates gave no diplomas or degrees, and would have subjected any disciple who demanded one to a disconcerting catechism on the nature of true knowledge. -- G. M. Trevelyan
  • most men and women, by birth or nature, lack the means to advance in wealth or power, but all have the ability to advance in knowledge. -- Pythagoras
  • Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause nor invention without necessity. -- Leonardo da Vinci
  • I think schools, as they are now regulated, the hot-beds of vice and folly, and the knowledge of human nature supposedly attained there, merely cunning selfishness. -- Mary Wollstonecraft
  • 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
  • The world has entered a new era, evolving from an industrial into a knowledge-based society, and into a society that wants to live in harmony with nature. -- Minoru Mori
  • There is one thing one has to have either a soul that is cheerful by nature, or a soul made cheerful by work, love, art, and knowledge.... -- Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Monotheism owes its existence not to philosophic speculation about the nature of reality or knowledge or virtue, but to acceptance of reality identified with a supreme being. -- Israel Shenker
  • Magic comprises the most profound contemplation of the most secret things, their nature, power, quality, substance, and virtues, as well as the knowledge of their whole nature. -- Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa
  • In your very nature, in the depth of your mind, there is omnipresence, omnipotence, omniscience. All knowledge is already in the depth of your consciousness, of your mind. -- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
  • Foresight of phenomenon and power over them depend on knowledge of their sequences, and not upon any notion we may have formed respecting their origin or inmost nature. -- John Stuart Mill
  • The observation of nature is part of an artist's life, it enlarges his form [and] knowledge, keeps him fresh and from working only by formula, and feeds inspiration. -- Henry Moore
  • Vulgar and inactive minds confound familiarity with knowledge, and conceive themselves informed of the whole nature of things, when they are shown their form or told their use. -- Samuel Johnson
  • Is it right to probe so deeply into Nature's secrets? The question must here be raised whether it will benefit mankind, or whether the knowledge will be harmful. -- Pierre Curie
  • If I could find them (assemblages) in nature I would photograph them. I make them because through photography I have a knowledge of things that can't be found. -- Frederick Sommer
  • It is absurd to suppose we can think of nature as a system apart from knowledge, for it is knowledge that is increasingly determining the course of nature -- Kenneth E. Boulding
  • Of what a strange nature is knowledge! It clings to a mind when it has once seized on it like a lichen on a rock." - Frankenstein p115 -- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
  • Of what a strange nature is knowledge! It clings to a mind when it has once seized on it like a lichen on a rock." - Frankenstein p115 -- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
  • Science is a mechanism, a way of trying to improve your knowledge of nature. It's a system for testing your thoughts against the universe, and seeing whether they match. -- Isaac Asimov
  • Art is the uniting of the subjective with the objective, of nature with reason, of the unconscious with the conscious, and therefore art is the highest means of knowledge. -- Leo Tolstoy
  • Take the decision in early March to arrest Muqtada al-Sadr. It was made apparently without knowledge or understanding of the nature of his movement or how widespread it is. -- Juan Cole
  • Through knowledge we behold the world's creation, How in his cradle first he fostered was; And judge of Nature's cunning operation, How things she formed of a formless mass. -- Edmund Spenser
  • The knowledge of the nature of a horse is one of the first foundations of the art if riding it, and every horseman must make it his principal study. -- Francois Robichon de La Gueriniere
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