"The great aim of education is not knowledge but action."
-Herbert Spencer
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"Science is organized knowledge."
-Herbert Spencer
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"In science the important thing is to modify and change one's ideas as science advances."
-Herbert Spencer
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"The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature, a type nowhere at present existing."
-Herbert Spencer
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"Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit."
-Herbert Spencer
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"When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion."
-Herbert Spencer
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"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom."
-Isaac Asimov
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"Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous."
-Plato
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"Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement."
-Ludwig Wittgenstein
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"We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine."
-H. L. Mencken
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"To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge."
-Nicolaus Copernicus
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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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