#knowledge

It is true that the aristocracies seem to have abused their monopoly of legal knowledge; and at all events their exclusive possession of the law was a formidable impediment to the success of those popular movements which began to be universal in the western world. ↗

— Henry James Sumner Maine

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Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power. ↗

— Horace Mann

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Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being. ↗

— Orison Swett Marden

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Besides the practical knowledge which defeat offers, there are important personality profits to be taken. ↗

— William Moulton Marston

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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. ↗

— Jose Marti

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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. ↗

— Henry Mayhew

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

— Henry Mayhew

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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. ↗

— Willie Mays

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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. ↗

— James Meade

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A knowledgeable and courageous U.S. president could help enormously in leading the world's nations toward saving the climate. ↗

— Donella Meadows

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