#knowledge

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

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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

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It was a requirement by the veterans to list the 57,000 names. We're reaching a time that we'll acknowledge the individual in a war on a national level. ↗

— Maya Lin

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The definition of a modern approach to war is the acknowledgement of individual lives lost. ↗

— Maya Lin

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Science consists exactly of those forms of knowledge that can be verified and duplicated by anybody. ↗

— Seth Lloyd

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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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