knowledge
Quotations
Quotations on the topic of ‘knowledge’ from all listed authors (click on the ‘click to view listing’ links to view each quote in full).
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“Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ASK. On the contrary, they try to wring from the unknown the answers they have already shaped in their own minds.” -Anne Rice
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“My advice to women in general: Even if you’re doing a nine-to-five job, treat yourself like a boss. Not arrogant, but be sure of what you want – and don’t allow people to run anything for you without your knowledge.” -Nicki Minaj
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“In order to the existence of such a ministry in the Church, there is requisite an authority received from God, and consequently power and knowledge imparted from God for the exercise of such ministry and where a man possesses these, although the bis.” -John Wycliffe
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“All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.” -Juvenal
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“A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very beginning. One must learn from him who knows.” -George Gurdjieff
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“As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the greatest possible ease.” -Oliver Goldsmith
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“These are tough times and under this Tory-led government many people in Manchester are suffering and getting left behind. If elected I will use all my energy, skills, experience and knowledge to stand up for our communities and get things done for the better.” -Lucy Powell
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“It created a global platform that allowed more people to plug and play, collaborate and compete, share knowledge and share work, than anything we have ever seen in the history of the world.” -Thomas Friedman
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“Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day.” -Karen Armstrong
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“Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.” -William Ellery Channing
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“To say, ‘well done’ to any bit of good work is to take hold of the powers which have made the effort and strengthen them beyond our knowledge.” -Phillips Brooks
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“Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for comprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an instrument for acquiring specialized knowledge.” -Alexis Carrel
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“Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession – a property entirely our own.” -Samuel Smiles
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“Even though I’m a hype man myself, I like the practicality of it all. People who understand how to turn a profit. At the end of the day, this is still business so I’m looking for real practical knowledge of how to actually make money, not necessarily raise it.” -Gary Vaynerchuk
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“Behind the man is the Tree of Life, bearing twelve fruits, and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil is behind the woman the serpent is twining round it.” -Arthur E. Waite
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“To those who have chosen the profession of medicine, a knowledge of chemistry, and of some branches of natural history, and, indeed, of several other departments of science, affords useful assistance.” -Charles Babbage
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“It’s just us trying to start a movement where everybody passes on a bit of cooking knowledge. We estimate that one person can potentially affect 180 others very quickly so we’re just trying to spread the word.” -Jamie Oliver
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“As governor, I saw the link between economic prosperity and the ability to acquire knowledge.” -Jeb Bush
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“I believe that we must maintain pride in the knowledge that the actions we take, based on our own decisions and choices as individuals, link directly to the magnificent challenge of transforming human history.” -Daisaku Ikeda
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“Psychopaths know the technical difference between right and wrong – which is one of the reasons their insanity pleas in criminal cases so rarely succeed they just fail to act on that knowledge.” -Jeffrey Kluger
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“Epistemology is the study of knowledge. By what conduit do we know what we know?” -Theodore Bikel
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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.”…
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“Doubt is the middle position between knowledge and ignorance. It encompasses cynicism but also genuine questioning.” -Vera Farmiga
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“I think a lot of food shows, especially when we started ‘Good Eats’ back in the late ’90s, they were still really about food. ‘Good Eats’ isn’t about food, it’s about entertainment. If, however, we can virally infect you with knowledge or interest, then all the better.” -Alton Brown
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“Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.” -Jacob Bronowski
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“In complete darkness, it is only knowledge and wisdom that separates us.” -Janet Jackson
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“Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world.” -Louis Pasteur
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“It’s kind of interesting, because hacking is a skill that could be used for criminal purposes or legitimate purposes, and so even though in the past I was hacking for the curiosity, and the thrill, to get a bite of the forbidden fruit of knowledge, I’m now working in the security field as a public…
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“While many hackers have the knowledge, skills, and tools to attack computer systems, they generally lack the motivation to cause violence or severe economic or social harm.” -Dorothy Denning
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“Just like I find men who talk sports who don’t really know sports annoying, I think men might find women who don’t really have a true passion and knowledge of sports maybe not so attractive.” -Gabrielle Union
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“I’m on a mission. And I know the older I get, I may lose a step or two, but it’s all up in the medulla oblongata. I’ve got a lot up there. I’ve got a lot of knowledge… in this medulla oblongata.” -Shaquille O’Neal
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“The education that prepared me was my general education classes, which I tried to avoid when I was a stupid undergraduate, but which gave me the foundation of general knowledge that makes a career as a writer possible.” -Orson Scott Card
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“We give you the facts. I told you information is power – knowledge is power. We can’t be in an ideological battle to redeem the soul of this country if we don’t have the facts.” -Tavis Smiley
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“We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there’s almost a sense of entitlement to that.” -J. J. Abrams
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“As long as acquiring knowledge is the educational goal of schools, educational opportunities will be limited, as they are now, to affluent families.” -William Glasser
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“As a young man, I went to Paris and soaked up many hours of film knowledge from Robert Hakim in my efforts to become a producer.” -Harvey Weinstein
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“A screen actor is compensated in the knowledge that millions will see his performance at one time, where only hundreds will see it on the stage.” -Bela Lugosi
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“Medical knowledge and technical savvy are biodegradable. The sort of medicine that was practiced in Boston or New York or Atlanta fifty years ago would be as strange to a medical student or intern today as the ceremonial dance of a !Kung San tribe would seem to a rock festival audience in Hackensack.” -Lewis Thomas
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“There is still the feeling that women’s writing is a lesser class of writing, that what goes on in the nursery or the bedroom is not as important as what goes on in the battlefield, that what women know about is a less category of knowledge.” -Erica Jong
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“The best theology is rather a divine life than a divine knowledge.” -Jeremy Taylor
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“I want to be safe in the knowledge that I can tour and play festivals for a long time. The main thing is that I want a good reputation as a live performer. If I have that, I’d be so happy.” -Ellie Goulding
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“All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.” -Walter Benjamin
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“So long as these kinds of inequalities persist, all of us who are given expensive educations have to live with the knowledge that our victories are contaminated because the game has been rigged to our advantage.” -Jonathan Kozol
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“I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.” -Igor Stravinsky
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“Getting along with men isn’t what’s truly important. The vital knowledge is how to get along with a man, one man.” -Phyllis McGinley
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“Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge.” -Nate Silver
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“I’m a very passionate believer in the unity of knowledge. There is one world of reality – one world of our experience that we’re seeking to describe.” -John Polkinghorne
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“‘For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge’ took a year to record that’s why the playing on it might sound somewhat labored. ‘Balance,’ on the other hand, was written and recorded in only four months, so the whole process was quicker and more immediate.” -Eddie Van Halen
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“The new industries are brainy industries and so-called knowledge workers tend to like to be near other people who are the same. Think of the City of Hollywood. People cluster. This means you have winning regions, such as London and Cambridge, and losing regions. The people who want to be top lawyers in Sunderland are…
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“A man of knowledge chooses a path with a heart and follows it and then he looks and rejoices and laughs and then he sees and knows.” -Carlos Castenada
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“There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul.” -Arnold Bennett
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“Faulkner is a writer who has had much to do with my soul, but Hemingway is the one who had the most to do with my craft – not simply for his books, but for his astounding knowledge of the aspect of craftsmanship in the science of writing.” -Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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“It would be great to be able to pass on to someone all of the successes, the failures, and the knowledge that one has had. To help someone, avoid all the fire, pain and anxiety would be wonderful.” -Sylvester Stallone
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“Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.” -Henry Adams
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“Argument is conclusive, but it does not remove doubt, so that the mind may rest in the sure knowledge of the truth, unless it finds it by the method of experiment.” -Roger Bacon
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“Most North Americans know that human-caused global warming is real, even if political leaders don’t always reflect or act on that knowledge.” -David Suzuki
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“Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize.” -Christopher Lasch
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“The greatest sin is judgment without knowledge.” -Kelsey Grammer
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“Wild Bill was anything but a quarrelsome man yet I have personal knowledge of at least half a dozen men whom he had at various times killed.” -Buffalo Bill
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“Fullness of knowledge always means some understanding of the depths of our ignorance and that is always conducive to humility and reverence.” -Robert Millikan
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“It takes a couple of years just to get the background and knowledge that you need before you can go into detailed training for your mission.” -Sally Ride
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“The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making…
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“The most wonderful study of mankind is man. Relieving human suffering and diffusing universal knowledge is humanitarian.” -Daniel D. Palmer
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“Since we can’t know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.” -John Holt
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“You can do anything you think you can. This knowledge is literally the gift of the gods, for through it you can solve every human problem. It should make of you an incurable optimist. It is the open door.” -Robert Collier
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“Patriotism is voluntary. It is a feeling of loyalty and allegiance that is the result of knowledge and belief. A patriot shows their their patriotism through their actions, by their choice.” -Jesse Ventura
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“Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination.” -Alfred North Whitehead
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“Knowledge is not simply another commodity. On the contrary. Knowledge is never used up. It increases by diffusion and grows by dispersion.” -Daniel J. Boorstin
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“Knowledge is not skill. Knowledge plus ten thousand times is skill.” -Shinichi Suzuki
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“Knowledge is generally considered a good thing so, presumably, knowing more about how the U.S. thinks and operates around the world is also good.” -Peter Singer
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“I respect knowledge of the psyche. I would be a therapist if I weren’t an entertainer.” -Jessica Simpson
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“We have today a fairly thorough knowledge of the early Greco-Roman period because our motivations are the same.” -Arthur Erickson
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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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“I think in most jobs, you get better as you get older. You gain experience, you gain knowledge.” -Kristin Scott Thomas
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“If you go and talk to most people, they mean well but they don’t have much of a breadth on education, of knowledge of understanding what the real issues are and therefore they listen to pundits on television who tell them what they are supposed to think and they keep repeating that until pretty soon…
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“I wish I had known more firsthand about the concerns and problems of American businesspeople while I was a U.S. senator and later a presidential nominee. That knowledge would have made me a better legislator and a more worthy aspirant to the White House.” -George McGovern
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“If we had failed to pursue the facts as far as they led, we would have denied the public any knowledge of an unprecedented scheme of political surveillance and sabotage.” -Katharine Graham
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“Education in the light of present-day knowledge and need calls for some spirited and creative innovations both in the substance and the purpose of current pedagogy.” -Anne Sullivan Macy
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“I find myself going to places where I really have no business, speaking to these people in a whole other field that I have no extensive knowledge of. But I do it very often because it scares me.” -Alan Alda
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“My practicality consists in this, in the knowledge that if you beat your head against the wall it is your head which breaks and not the wall – that is my strength, my only strength.” -Antonio Gramsci
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“Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give lustre, and many more people see than weigh.” -Herodotus
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“When knowledge is limited – it leads to folly… When knowledge exceeds a certain limit, it leads to exploitation.” -Abu Bakr
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“Science is organized knowledge.” -Herbert Spencer
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“Inductive reason, which alone makes man master of his environment, is an achievement and when once born it must be reinforced by inhibiting the growth of other modes of knowledge.” -Muhammad Iqbal
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“Perhaps as good a classification as any of the main types is that of the three lusts distinguished by traditional Christianity – the lust of knowledge, the lust of sensation, and the lust of power.” -Irving Babbitt
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“Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.” -Thomas Hobbes
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“The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.” -Ralph W. Sockman
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“Well, there are two kinds of happiness, grounded and ungrounded. Ungrounded happiness is cheesy and not based on reality. Grounded happiness is informed happiness based on the knowledge that the world sometimes sucks, but even then you have to believe in yourself.” -Andy Grammer
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“Knowledge is going to make you stronger. Knowledge is going to let you control your life. Knowledge is going to give you the wisdom to teach their children. Knowledge is the thing that makes you smile in the face of disaster.” -Avery Brooks
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“In England only uneducated people show off their knowledge nobody quotes Latin or Greek authors in the course of conversation, unless he has never read them.” -George Mikes
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“Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and how much happier is that man who believes his native town to be the world than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow.” -Mary Wollstonecraft
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“In the Atlantean period there were many energies being used and information and knowledge being used which were, for particular reasons of safety, withdrawn, shall we say, to prevent complete catastrophe, to prevent total destruction of your planet.” -David Icke
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“If knowledge and foresight are too penetrating and deep, unify them with ease and sincerity.” -Xun Zi
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“The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.” -Georg C. Lichtenberg
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“After the Berlin Wall came down I visited that city and I will never forget it. The abandoned checkpoints. The sense of excitement about the future. The knowledge that a great continent was coming together. Healing those wounds of our history is the central story of the European Union.” -David Cameron
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“Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ.” -John Calvin
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“International relationships are preordained to be clumsy gestures based on imperfect knowledge.” -Rebecca West
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“People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding.” -Van Wyck Brooks
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“He will therefore have to use what knowledge he can achieve, not to shape the results as the craftsman shapes his handiwork, but rather to cultivate a growth by providing the appropriate environment, in the manner in which the gardener does this for his plants.” -Friedrich August von Hayek
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“The family teaches us about the importance of knowledge, education, hard work and effort. It teaches us about enjoying ourselves, having fun, keeping fit and healthy.” -Kamisese Mara
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“It is remarkable how many misconceptions there are here about life in the developing world and I think that that knowledge gap has done a lot to contribute to the imbalance quite frankly.” -Emma Thompson
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“G is Grace, the Flaming Star is the Torch of Reason. Those who possess this knowledge are indeed Illuminati.” -Adam Weishaupt
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“Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. We can’t talk about science, because our knowledge of it is limited and unofficial, and usually our fiction is dreadful.” -Philip K. Dick
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“Building technical systems involves a lot of hard work and specialized knowledge: languages and protocols, coding and debugging, testing and refactoring.” -Jesse James Garrett
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“When a child comes in, I believe that it’s a ‘multipersonhood,’ and it knows it, its consciousness knows it, and it has a nuclei in the center of its consciousness that is the repository of all experience and all knowledge. And when you look in the eyes of your baby and you feel this sense…
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“Education can counteract the natural tendency to do the wrong thing, but the inexorable succession of generations requires that the basis for this knowledge be constantly refreshed.” -Garrett Hardin
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“But now with the living conditions deteriorating, and with the sure knowledge that we are slated for destruction, we have been transformed into an implacable army of liberation.” -George Jackson
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“Knowledge fills a large brain it merely inflates a small one.” -Sydney J. Harris
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“The ordinary American – as far as I can tell – knows so much less than he did fifty years ago and has such poor work habits compared with fifty years ago that the average multiplicand of knowledge/capabilities is a much smaller number than it was in 1961.” -Ben Stein
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“Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.” -Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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“Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.” -Ludwig Wittgenstein
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“The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading.” -David Bailey
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“Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.” -Will Durant
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“There are in fact two things, science and opinion the former begets knowledge, the later ignorance.” -Hippocrates
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“Men are limited by the knowledge of their minds, the worth of their characters and the principles upon which they are building their lives.” -Edwin Louis Cole
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“True, some land was bought by a few Cabinet Ministers. They bought the land. No minister, to my knowledge acquired land which was meant for resettlement.” -Robert Mugabe
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“I don’t think any person has any special knowledge about what God has planned for me and you any more than me and you do.” -Willie Nelson
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“I have thought about it a great deal, and the more I think, the more certain I am that obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the child.” -Anne Sullivan
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“The apple cannot be stuck back on the Tree of Knowledge once we begin to see, we are doomed and challenged to seek the strength to see more, not less.” -Arthur Miller
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“The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.” -Sam Houston
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“The truth is often terrifying, which I think is one of the motifs of Larry and Andrew’s cinema. The cost of knowledge is an important theme. In the second and third films, they explore the consequences of Neo’s choice to know the truth. It’s a beautiful, beautiful story.” -Keanu Reeves
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“Knowledge is a beautiful thing, but there are a few things I wish I didn’t know.” -Susan Orlean
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“The first responsibility of the Muslim is as teacher. That is his job, to teach. His first school, his first classroom is within the household. His first student is himself. He masters himself and then he begins to convey the knowledge that he has acquired to the family. The people who are closest to him.”…
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“There is a general knowledge that I am multi-dimensional, that when you are creative you do a lot of things.” -Suzanne Somers
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“We are approaching a new age of synthesis. Knowledge cannot be merely a degree or a skill… it demands a broader vision, capabilities in critical thinking and logical deduction without which we cannot have constructive progress.” -Li Ka Shing
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“The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.” -Laurence Sterne
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“In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.” -J. Robert Oppenheimer
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“A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy.” -Camille Paglia
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“Knowledge about the economy, ideas about capitalism and government, the future of the world and geopolitics were things I was never really interested in.” -Shia LaBeouf
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“Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true knowledge.” -David Hume
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“I feel like 35. At 35 you’re old enough to know something and young enough to look forward to what you can do with the knowledge. So I stayed at 35!” -Michael Caine
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“One of the interesting things about having little musical knowledge is that you generate surprising results sometimes you move to places you wouldn’t if you knew better.” -Brian Eno
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“The amount of meetings I’ve been in – people would be shocked. But that’s how you gain experience, how you can gain knowledge, being in meetings and participating. You learn and grow.” -Tiger Woods
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“There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride, they have yielded to the perennial temptation.” -Walter Lippmann
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“There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge – that is everywhere.” -Hermann Hesse
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“Music can be healing, and with my history and my knowledge of both sides of what looks like a gigantic divide in the world, I feel I can point a way forward to our common humanity again.” -Cat Stevens
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“There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.” -Lee Iacocca
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“How can smart women be so stupid about men sometimes? Lack of knowledge. It’s what men have kept secret for so long.” -Steve Harvey
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“I don’t have incredible knowledge about films or of filmmaking history I’m not that kind of person.” -Ang Lee
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“Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.” -Thucydides
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“If you want to be truly successful invest in yourself to get the knowledge you need to find your unique factor. When you find it and focus on it and persevere your success will blossom.” -Sydney Madwed
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“If I was left to my own devices, you would see about ten T-shirts in rotation with maybe a few nice pairs of jeans – but I also like to look good. I like feeling really well put together, I just don’t have the aptitude and the knowledge to do that.” -Daniel Radcliffe
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“At a family’s most difficult time, I want to make sure at a minimum that they have the very basic of comforts: the ability to grieve their loss privately and the knowledge that their country is grateful for their loved one’s sacrifice and service.” -Dave Reichert
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“My philosophy from day one is that I can sleep better at night if I can improve an individual’s knowledge about food and wine, and do it on a daily basis.” -Emeril Lagasse
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“Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.” -Lord Chesterfield
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“Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing.” -Konrad Lorenz
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“How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room. There is no such thing as observation of the inner world, as there is of the outer world.” -Franz Kafka
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“Knowledge is that possession that no misfortune can destroy, no authority can revoke, and no enemy can control. This makes knowledge the greatest of all freedoms.” -Bryant H. McGill
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“It is becoming clear that the old platitudes can no longer be maintained, and that if we wish to improve our morals we must first improve our knowledge.” -Havelock Ellis
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“Knowledge, the object of knowledge and the knower are the three factors which motivate action the senses, the work and the doer comprise the threefold basis of action.” -Friedrich Schiller
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“Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since.” -Abigail Adams
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“The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn when teachers themselves are taught to learn.” -Bertolt Brecht
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“Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.” -Zhuangzi
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“When we go to the Bible we should keep in mind that the basic principles of the Bible are taught by God, but written down by human beings deprived of modern day knowledge. So there is some fallibility in the writings of the Bible. But the basic principles are applicable to my life and I…
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“The knowledge I have now is not the knowledge I had then.” -Stokely Carmichael
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“Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.” -Novalis
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“The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.” -Elizabeth Hardwick
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“So I’d be quite happy to have a three-hour Lincoln-Douglas-style debate with Barack Obama. I’d let him use a teleprompter. I’ll just rely on knowledge. We’ll do fine.” -Newt Gingrich
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“In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.” -George Herbert
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“Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.” -David Herbert Lawrence
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“We must develop knowledge optimization initiatives to leverage our key learnings.” -Scott Adams
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“Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.” -Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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“The will to do springs from the knowledge that we can do.” -James Allen
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“Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.” -Alvin Toffler
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“Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.” -William Penn
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“True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.” -Baltasar Gracian
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“Helping someone come to a saving knowledge of Christ is the greatest achievement possible.” -Charles Stanley
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“I would rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent than in the extent of my powers and dominion.” -Alexander the Great
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“That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.” -Charles Caleb Colton
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“I might have some character traits that some might see as innocence or naive. That’s because I discovered peace and happiness in my soul. And with this knowledge, I also see the beauty of human life.” -Tobey Maguire
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“Golf… is the infallible test. The man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge that only God is watching him, and play his ball where it lies, is the man who will serve you faithfully and well.” -P. G. Wodehouse
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“We do not need to be shoemakers to know if our shoes fit, and just as little have we any need to be professionals to acquire knowledge of matters of universal interest.” -Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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“Discussion is an exchange of knowledge an argument an exchange of ignorance.” -Robert Quillen
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“Research is creating new knowledge.” -Neil Armstrong
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“But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.” -Immanuel Kant
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“Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.” -Josh Billings
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“His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even… knowledge, was foolproof.” -J. K. Rowling
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“It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.” -Oliver Wendell Holmes
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“Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.” -John Locke
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“In your thirst for knowledge, be sure not to drown in all the information.” -Anthony J. D’Angelo
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