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Happiness exists on earth, and it is won through prudent exercise of reason, knowledge of the harmony of the universe, and constant practice of generosity.

It is my deliberate opinion that the one essential requisite of human welfare in all ways is scientific knowledge of human nature.

A fact must be assimilated with, or discriminated fromm, some other fact or facts, in order to be raised to the dignity of a truth, and made to convey the least knowledge to the mind.

The deductive method is the mode of using knowledge, and the inductive method the mode of acquiring it.

That's how easy baseball was for me. I'm not trying to brag or anything, but I had the knowledge before I became a professional baseball player to do all these things and know what each guy would hit.

An excessive knowledge of Marxism is a sign of a misspent youth.

If you know you are on the right track, if you have this inner knowledge, then nobody can turn you off... no matter what they say.

Knowledge is that possession that no misfortune can destroy, no authority can revoke, and no enemy can control. This makes knowledge the greatest of all freedoms.

Getting along with men isn't what's truly important. The vital knowledge is how to get along with a man, one man.

The frontiers of knowledge in the various fields of our subject are expanding at such a rate that, work as hard as one can, one finds oneself further and further away from an understanding of the whole.

We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.

In England only uneducated people show off their knowledge; nobody quotes Latin or Greek authors in the course of conversation, unless he has never read them.

I'm not fascinated by one particular case, but by knowledge that I had no idea was out there.

The apple cannot be stuck back on the Tree of Knowledge; once we begin to see, we are doomed and challenged to seek the strength to see more, not less.

In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.

Sin, guilt, neurosis; they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.

Fullness of knowledge always means some understanding of the depths of our ignorance; and that is always conducive to humility and reverence.

When David Marr at MIT moved into computer vision, he generated a lot of excitement, but he hit up against the problem of knowledge representation; he had no good representations for knowledge in his vision systems.

I think Lenat is headed in the right direction, but someone needs to include a knowledge base about learning.

That knowledge which is popular is not scientific.