#knowledge

We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that. ↗

— J. J. Abrams

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If you desire information on some point of law, you are not likely to ponder over the ponderous tomes of legal writers in order to obtain the knowledge you seek, by your own unaided efforts. ↗

— Felix Adler

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If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation. ↗

— John Acton

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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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We can't have full knowledge all at once. We must start by believing; then afterwards we may be led on to master the evidence for ourselves. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

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The knowledge of God is the cause of things. For the knowledge of God is to all creatures what the knowledge of the artificer is to things made by his art. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

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Foreknowledge of the future makes it possible to manipulate both enemies and supporters. ↗

— Raymond Aron

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Now it is established in the sciences that no knowledge is acquired save through the study of its causes and beginnings, if it has had causes and beginnings; nor completed except by knowledge of its accidents and accompanying essentials. ↗

— Avicenna

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The great end of life is not knowledge but action. ↗

— Francis Bacon

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Knowledge and human power are synonymous. ↗

— Francis Bacon

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