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“By academic freedom I understand the right to search for truth and to publish and teach what one holds to be true. This right implies also a duty: one must not conceal any part of what on has recognized to be true. It is evident that any restriction on academic freedom acts in such a way as to hamper the dissemination of knowledge among the people and thereby impedes national judgment and action.”

“Without Christ, sciences in every department are vain....The man who knows not God is vain, though he should be conversant with every branch of learning. Nay more, we may affirm this too with truth, that these choice gifts of God -- expertness of mind, acuteness of judgment, liberal sciences, and acquaintance with languages, are in a manner profaned in every instance in which they fall to the lot of wicked men.”

“Knowledge is more a matter of learning than of the exercise of absolute judgment. Learning requires time, and in time the situation dealt with, as well as the learner, undergoes change.”

Wells Matter Education Situation Knowledge Learning Exercise Judgment Economics Absolutes Learners

Book:Risk, Uncertainty and Profit

Source: Risk, Uncertainty and Profit

“True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.”

Mean Memories Knowledge Knowing Judging Judgment Scholarship

Author:James Russell Lowell

“Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment the treasurer, of a wise man.”

Knowledge Wise Judgment Treasure Treasurer

Author:William Penn

“All knowledge resolves itself into probability. ... In every judgment, which we can form concerning probability, as well as concerning knowledge, we ought always to correct the first judgment deriv'd from the nature of the object, by another judgment, deriv'd from the nature of the understanding.”

Firsts Wells Form Science Understanding Knowledge Objects Ought Judgment Resolve Probability

Book:A Treatise of Human Nature

Source: A Treatise of Human Nature

“Science at best is not wisdom; it is knowledge. Wisdom is knowledge tempered with judgment.”

Science Education Knowledge Judgment Knowledge Wisdom

Author:Peter Ritchie Calder

“We find it hard to apply the knowledge of ourselves to our judgment of others. The fact that we are never of one kind, that we never love without reservations and never hate with all our being cannot prevent us from seeing others as wholly black or white.”

Love Kind Hard Facts Hate Black White Knowledge Seeing Judgment Reservations Black Or White Judgment Of Others

Author:Eric Hoffer

“Sane judgment abhors nothing so much as a picture perpetrated with no technical knowledge, although with plenty of care and diligence.”

Care Knowledge Judgment Plenty Sane Diligence Technical Knowledge

Author:Albrecht Durer