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“Only in education, never in the life of farmer, sailor, merchant, physician, or laboratory experimenter, does knowledge mean primarily a store of information aloof from doing.”

Mean Doe Knowledge Information Stores Farmers Physicians Laboratory Sailor Merchants Aloof

Book:Democracy And Education

Source: Democracy And Education

“It is given to few to add the store of knowledge, to strike new springs of thought, or to shape new forms of beauty. But so sure as it is that men live not by bread, but by ideas, so sure is it that the future of the world lies in the hands of those who are able to carry the interpretation of nature a step further than their predecessors.”

Men World Ideas Hands Able Form Science Lying Given Steps Knowledge Shapes Spring Add Strikes Stores Bread Interpretation Predecessors

Book:Aphorisms and Reflections from the Works of Thomas Henry Huxley

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections from the Works of Thomas Henry Huxley

“Let us suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper, void of all characters, without any ideas; how comes it to be furnished? Whence comes it by that vast store which the busy and boundless fancy of man has painted on it with an almost endless variety? Whence has it all the materials of reason and knowledge? To this I answer, in one word, from experience.”

Men Mind Ideas Reason Character Science White Answers Knowledge Materials Paper Experience Busy Stores Endless Variety Fancy Void One Word Boundless White Paper

Author:John Locke

“You are your greatest investment. The more you store in that mind of yours, the more you enrich your experience, the more people you meet, the more books you read, and the more places you visit, the greater is that investment in all that you are. Everything that you add to your peace of mind, and to your outlook upon life, is added capital that no one but yourself can dissipate.”

People Mind Book Life Is Knowledge Greater Add Investment Stores Peace Of Mind Outlook

Author:George Matthew Adams

“The store of wisdom does not consist of hard coins which keep their shape as they pass from hand to hand; it consists of ideas and doctrines whose meanings change with the minds that entertain them.”

Mind Doe Ideas Hard Hands Knowledge Shapes Stores Doctrine Coins Sharing Knowledge

Book:Man and Society: A Critical Examination of Some Important Social and Political Theories from Machiavelli to Marx... John Plamenatz....

Source: Man and Society: A Critical Examination of Some Important Social and Political Theories from Machiavelli to Marx... John Plamenatz....

“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

“Unless the structure of the nucleus has a surprise in store for us, the conclusion seems plain — there is nothing in the whole system of laws of physics that cannot be deduced unambiguously from epistemological considerations.”

“Whatever Nature has in store for mankind, unpleasant as it may be, men must accept, for ignorance is never better than knowledge.”

Knows Men May Science Accepting Knowledge Mankind Ignorance Stores Ignorant Be A Man

Author:Enrico Fermi

“...one can hardly deny that mankind has a common store of thoughts which is transmitted from one generation to another.”

Mind Common Knowledge Generations Mankind Deny Stores

Book:Translations from the Philosophical Writings of Gottlob Frege

Source: Translations from the Philosophical Writings of Gottlob Frege

“As each generation comes into the world devoid of knowledge, its first duty is to obtain possession of the stores already amassed. It must overtake its predecessors before it can pass by them.”

World Firsts Knowledge Generations Duty Possession Stores Predecessors

Book:Lectures on Various Subjects

Source: Lectures on Various Subjects

“We should lay up in our minds a store of goodly thoughts which will be a living treasure of knowledge always with us, and from which, at various times, and amidst all the shiftings of circumstances, we might be sure of drawing some comfort, guidance and sympathy.”

Life Should Mind Might Knowledge Circumstances Comfort Lays Various Stores Drawing Treasure Guidance Shifting

Book:Friends in Council: A Series of Readings and Discourse Thereon

Source: Friends in Council: A Series of Readings and Discourse Thereon