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There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge tha

There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words. – Thomas Reid

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Every indication of wisdom, taken from the effect, is equally an indication of power to execute what wisdom planned. – Thomas Reid

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And, if we have any evidence that the wisdom which formed the plan is in the man, we have the very same evidence, that the power which executed it is in him also. – Thomas Reid

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In the present state of our knowledge, it would be useless to attempt to speculate on the remote cause of the electrical energy… its relation to chemical affinity is, however, sufficiently evident. May it not be identical with it, and an essential property of matter? – Humphry Davy

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Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are not. – Raoul Vaneigem

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Knowledge is true opinion. – Plato

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Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge. – Leonardo da Vinci

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