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“We can learn from history how past generations thought and acted, how they responded to the demands of their time and how they solved their problems. We can learn by analogy, not by example, for our circumstances will always be different than theirs were. The main thing history can teach us is that human actions have consequences and that certain choices, once made, cannot be undone. They foreclose the possibility of making other choices and thus they determine future events.”

Source: Why History Matters: Life and Thought

“But, in history, practical usefulness never determines the moral value of an achievement. Only the person who increases the knowledge humanity has about itself and enhances its creative consciousness permanently enriches humanity.”

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Author:Stefan Zweig

“Let me always remember that it is not the amount of religious knowledge which I have, but the amount which I use, that determines my religious position and character.”

Character Use Remember Religious Knowledge Position Amount Let Me Determine

Author:Alexander MacLaren

“It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.”

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Book:Lectures on the elevation of the labouring portion of the community

Source: Lectures on the elevation of the labouring portion of the community

“I know a good many men of great learning-that is, men born with an extraordinary eagerness and capacity to acquire knowledge. One and all, they tell me that they can't recall learning anything of any value in school. All that schoolmasters managed to accomplish with them was to test and determine the amount of knowledge that they had already acquired independently-and not infrequently the determination was made clumsily and inaccurately.”

Source: Prejudices: Third Series

“If there is some end of the things we do, which we desire for its own sake, clearly this must be the good. Will not knowledge of it, then, have a great influence on life? Shall we not, like archers who have a mark to aim at, be more likely to hit upon what we should? If so, we must try, in outline at least, to determine what it is.”

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Author:Aristotle

“No part of the world can be truly understood without a knowledge of its garment of vegetation, for this determines not only the nature of the animal inhabitants but also the occupations of the majority of human beings.”

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Book:The Red Man's Continent: A Chronicle of Aboriginal America

Source: The Red Man's Continent: A Chronicle of Aboriginal America

“Philosophy stands in need of a science which shall determine the possibility, principles, and extent of human knowledge à priori.”

Needs Humans Philosophy Science Principles Knowledge Possibility Determine Human Knowledge

Author:Immanuel Kant

“The scientist knows very well that he is approaching ultimate truth only in an asymptotic curve and is barred from ever reaching it; but at the same time he is proudly aware of being indeed able to determine whether a statement is a nearer or a less near approach to the truth.”

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Book:On aggression

Source: On aggression

“With crystals we are in a situation similar to an attempt to investigate an optical grating merely from the spectra it produces... But a knowledge of the positions and intensities of the spectra does not suffice for the determination of the structure. The phases with which the diffracted waves vibrate relative to one another enter in an essential way. To determine a crystal structure on the atomic scale, one must know the phase differences between the different interference spots on the photographic plate, and this task may certainly prove to be rather difficult.”

“The highest knowledge is to know that we are surrounded by mystery. Neither knowledge nor hope for the future can be the pivot of our life or determine its direction. It is intended to be solely determined by our allowing ourselves to be gripped by the ethical God, who reveals Himself in us, and by our yielding our will to His.”

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Author:Albert Schweitzer