Abraham Myerson Quotes

The more ignorant the authority, the more dogmatic it is. In the fields where no real knowledge is even possible, the authorities are the fiercest and most assured and punish non-belief with the severest of penalties.

Abraham Myerson

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• Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive.

  

  F. H. Bradley
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• To the best of my knowledge, my youngest reader is 10 and the oldest is 95.

  

  Gail Carriger
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• Making $30,000 on my first business deal was exciting, but not as exciting as the sudden knowledge that I did not have to work for anyone again.

  

  E. Joseph Cossman
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• While our amplified knowledge of genetics - and the increasing precision of the field - does make it tempting to take on celebrity cases, retro-genetics can't always provide clear answers.

  

  Sam Kean
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• Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
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• 'The Driver' wasn't commercially successful at the time, but when I was a teenager, I had no knowledge of that.

  

  Edgar Wright
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• In the past, I used to counter any such notions by asking myself: 'Would you really want President Hattersley?' I now find that possibility rather cheers me up. With his chubby, Dickensian features and his knowledge of T.H. Green and other harmless leftish political classics, Hattersley might not be such a bad thing after all.

  

  A. N. Wilson
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• When time and space and change converge, we find place. We arrive in Place when we resolve things. Place is peace of mind and understanding. Place is knowledge of self. Place is resolution.

  

  Abdullah Ibrahim
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• I think that the failure of newspaper competition in a community is a very serious handicap to the dissemination of the knowledge that the citizens need to participate in a democracy.

  

  Walter Cronkite
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• Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

  

  Carl Jung
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  • Alone

• Defending Congressional authority should not be a partisan issue.

  

  Adam Cohen
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• If you know you are on the right track, if you have this inner knowledge, then nobody can turn you off... no matter what they say.

  

  Barbara McClintock
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• The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.

  

  Ralph W. Sockman
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• Superstition is marked not by its pretension to a body of knowledge but by its method of seeking truth.

  

  Carl Sagan
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• When an unbaked pot is broken, the potter can use the mud to make a new one; but when a baked one is broken, he cannot do the same any longer. So when a person dies in a state of ignorance, he is born again; but when he becomes well baked in the fire of true knowledge and dies a perfect man, he is not born again.

  

  Ramakrishna
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• In the fields with which we are concerned knowledge exists only in lightning flashes. The text is the thunder rolling long afterwards.

  

  Walter Benjamin
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• In order to enter into a real knowledge of your condition, consider it in this image: A man was cast by a tempest upon an unknown island, the inhabitants of which were in trouble to find their king, who was lost; and having a strong resemblance both in form and face to this king, he was taken for him, and acknowledged in this capacity by all the people.

  

  Blaise Pascal
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• Without the possibility of action, all knowledge comes to one labeled 'File and forget.'

  

  Ralph Ellison
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• Philosophy stands in need of a science which shall determine the possibility, principles, and extent of human knowledge à priori.

  

  Immanuel Kant
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• We question most of the mantras around here periodically, in case you hadn't noticed.

  

  Larry Wall
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• The lack of closeness among friends is a fault that cannot be reprimanded without becoming incurable.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
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• As the science of every thing is in the formed Word, so also is God's will therein: That same expressed Word is in the angels, angelical; in the devils, diabolical; in man, human; in beasts, bestial.

  

  Jakob Bohme
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• As humans, we have a hunger to discover something new, reach new meaning, understand better the universe and our place in it.

  

  Edward Frenkel
  • Universe
  • Humans
  • Discover

• The more ignorant the authority, the more dogmatic it is. In the fields where no real knowledge is even possible, the authorities are the fiercest and most assured and punish non-belief with the severest of penalties.

  

  Abraham Myerson
  • Knowledge
  • Authority
  • Dogmatic