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Useless knowledge can be made directly contributory to a force of

Useless knowledge can be made directly contributory to a force of sound and disinterested public opinion. – Albert J. Nock

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The accumulation of cultural capital – the acquisition of knowledge – is the key to social mobility. – Michael Gove

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Many people make the mistake of confusing information with knowledge. They are not the same thing. Knowledge involves the interpretation of information. Knowledge involves listening. – Henning Mankell

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Like all science, psychology is knowledge and like science again, it is knowledge of a definite thing, the mind. – James M. Baldwin

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Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not. – Carl Jung

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