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To express the same idea in still another way, I think that human knowledge is essentially active.

It is with children that we have the best chance of studying the development of logical knowledge, mathematical knowledge, physical knowledge, and so forth.

In other words, knowledge of the external world begins with an immediate utilisation of things, whereas knowledge of self is stopped by this purely practical and utilitarian contact.

Our problem, from the point of view of psychology and from the point of view of genetic epistemology, is to explain how the transition is made from a lower level of knowledge to a level that is judged to be higher.

Scientific knowledge is in perpetual evolution; it finds itself changed from one day to the next.

The current state of knowledge is a moment in history, changing just as rapidly as the state of knowledge in the past has ever changed and, in many instances, more rapidly.

Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

This required the development of a view which allowed one to integrate research with belief, thing with person, fact with aesthetics, knowledge with application of knowledge.

You have already disarmed my men without my knowledge, are their arms to be returned or not?

Scientific discovery and scientific knowledge have been achieved only by those who have gone in pursuit of it without any practical purpose whatsoever in view.

The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

Knowledge is true opinion.

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.

A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.

Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.

I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions.