Agents Quote by Raymond Geuss

The only knowledge that can truly orient action is knowledge that frees itself from mere human interests and is based in Ideas - in…

— Jurgen Habermas

Though we [Humanists] take a strict position on what constitutes knowledge, we are not critical of the source of ideas. Often intuitive feelings, hunches,…

— Fred Edwords

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

— Jean Piaget

Our natural tendency is to project onto other people our own belief and value systems, in ways in which we are not even aware.

— Robert Greene

Knowledge, in so far as it is directed to practical matters, has only to enumerate the principal possible attitudes of the thing towards us,…

— Henri Bergson

“Usually, when people get an idea, they are eager to start acting immediately, immerse themselves in the process without creating a system of actions,…

— Sunday Adelaja

There is a way in which the collective knowledge of mankind expresses itself, for the finite individual, through mere daily living . . .…

— Laurens van der Post

Principle-centered people are constantly educated by their experiences.

— Stephen Covey

While much of modern behavioral and social science treats individuals as autonomous agents, it is absolutely clear that the way we think and act…

— Richard R. Nelson

“The evidence presents a profound challenge to the idea that humans have consistent preferences and know how to maximize them, a cornerstone of the…

— Daniel Kahneman

Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.

— E. O. Wilson

It is now a documented principle of psychology that human beings subconsciously move in the direction of their most dominant thought.

— Napoleon Hill