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“In the world of letters, learning and knowledge are one, and books are the source of both; whereas in science, as in life, learning and knowledge are distinct, and the study of things, and not of books, is the source of the latter.”

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Book:The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley

Source: The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley

“love of learning is the most necessary passion ... in it lies our happiness. It's a sure remedy for what ails us, an unending source of pleasure.”

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Author:Emilie du Chatelet

“Converse, converse, CONVERSE, with living men, face to face, mind to mind-that is one of the best sources of knowledge.”

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Book:The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster

Source: The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster

“Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.”

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Author:Alvin Toffler

“There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.”

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Author:Brigham Young

“Intuition is the source of scientific knowledge.”

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Author:Aristotle

“Knowledge is the source of Wealth. Applied to tasks we already know, it becomes Productivity. Applied to tasks that are new, it becomes Innovation.”

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Author:Peter Drucker

“If we range through the whole territory of nature, and endeavour to extract from each department the rich stores of knowledge and pleasure they respectively contain, we shall not find a more refined or purer source of amusement, or a more interesting and unfailing subject for recreation, than that which the observation and examination of the structure, affinities, and habits of plants and vegetables, afford.”

Source: A Practical Treatise on the Cultivation of the Dahlia

“When understanding of the universe has become widespread, when the majority of men know that the stars are not sources of light but worlds, perhaps inhabited worlds like ours, then the Christian doctrine will be convicted of absurdity.”

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Book:Secret Conversations, 1941-1944

Source: Secret Conversations, 1941-1944

“Our knowledge springs from two fundamental sources of the mind; the first is the capacity of receiving representations (receptivity for impressions), the second is the power of knowing an object through these representations (spontaneity [in the production] of concepts).”

Source: Immanuel Kant's Critique Of Pure Reason

“The mere man of pleasure is miserable in old age, and the mere drudge in business is but little better, whereas, natural philosophy, mathematical and mechanical science, are a continual source of tranquil pleasure, and in spite of the gloomy dogmas of priests and of superstition, the study of these things is the true theology; it teaches man to know and admire the Creator, for the principles of science are in the creation, and are unchangeable and of divine origin.”

Source: The age of reason

“Nothing is known in our profession by guess; and I do not believe, that from the first dawn of medical science to the present moment, a single correct idea has ever emanated from conjecture: it is right therefore, that those who are studying their profession should be aware that there is no short road to knowledge; and that observation on the diseased living, examination of the dead, and experiments upon living animals, are the only sources of true knowledge; and that inductions from these are the sole bases of legitimate theory.”

“Sharpen your interest in two major subjects: life and people. You will only gather information from a source if you are interested in it.”

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Author:Jim Rohn

“He is wise who knows the sources of knowledge - where it is written and where it is to be found.”

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Author:Archibald Alexander Hodge