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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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“The knowledge of God is the cause of things. For the knowledge of God is to all creatures what the knowledge of the artificer is to things made by his art.” -Thomas Aquinas
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“The universal Mind contains all knowledge. It is the potential ultimate of all things. To it, all things are possible.” -Ernest Holmes
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“Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.” -William S. Burroughs
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“How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there’s no help in the truth.” -Sophocles
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“My mom took me to see Carnal Knowledge and The Wild Bunch and all these kind of movies when I was a kid.” -Quentin Tarantino
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“A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.” -Walter Scott
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“Western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but rather, it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent.” -Vine Deloria, Jr.
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“My philosophy of leadership is to surround myself with good people who have ability, judgment and knowledge, but above all, a passion for service.” -Sonny Perdue
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“We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about.” -Eric Hoffer
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“The animals that depend on instinct have an inherent knowledge of the laws of economics and of how to apply them Man, with his powers of reason, has reduced economics to the level of a farce which is at once funnier and more tragic than Tobacco Road.” -James Thurber
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“The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.” -Joseph Addison
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“His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge.” -Arthur Conan Doyle
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“Knowledge is recognition of something absent it is a salutation, not an embrace.” -George Santayana
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“Zeal will do more than knowledge.” -William Hazlitt
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“The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.” -James Madison
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“A jazz musician can improvise based on his knowledge of music. He understands how things go together. For a chef, once you have that basis, that’s when cuisine is truly exciting.” -Charlie Trotter
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“The Supreme Court has insulted you over and over again, Lord. They’ve taken your Bible away from the schools. They’ve forbidden little children to pray. They’ve taken the knowledge of God as best they can, and organizations have come into court to take the knowledge of God out of the public square of America.” -Pat…
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“Life is a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter.” -Charles Lindbergh
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“Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.” -Arthur Rimbaud
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“All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.” -Maurice Maeterlinck
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“Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.” -H. G. Wells
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“If the education of our kids comes from radio, television, newspapers – if that’s where they get most of their knowledge from, and not from the schools, then the powers that be are definitely in charge, because they own all those outlets.” -Maynard James Keenan
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“In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.” -Henry Miller
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“What does mysticism really mean? It means the way to attain knowledge. It’s close to philosophy, except in philosophy you go horizontally while in mysticism you go vertically.” -Elie Wiesel
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“A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel’s only morality.” -Milan Kundera
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“The medieval university looked backwards it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge. The modern university looks forward, and is a factory of new knowledge.” -Thomas Huxley
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“Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.” -Thomas Fuller
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“I know that I have lived because I have felt, and, feeling giving me the knowledge of my existence, I know likewise that I shall exist no more when I shall have ceased to feel.” -Giacomo Casanova
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“Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.” -Isaac Bashevis Singer
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“I served the famous professors and scholars, and eventually they learned that the Reverend Moon is superior to them. Even Nobel laureate academics who thought they were at the center of knowledge are as nothing in front of me.” -Sun Myung Moon
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“If in preaching the gospel you substitute your knowledge of the way of salvation for confidence in the power of the gospel, you hinder people from getting to reality.” -Oswald Chambers
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“And I pray thee, loving Jesus, that as Thou hast graciously given me to drink in with delight the words of Thy knowledge, so Thou wouldst mercifully grant me to attain one day to Thee, the fountain of all wisdom and to appear forever before Thy face.” -Venerable Bede
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“If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it except at a considerable cost.” -Michel Foucault
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“It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.” -Carl Friedrich Gauss
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“Knowledge and human power are synonymous.” -Francis Bacon
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“The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.” -Samuel Butler
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“Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.” -Samuel Johnson
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“The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.” -Arthur Schopenhauer
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“There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.” -Michel de Montaigne
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“Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.” -Thomas J. Watson
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“It’s very strange that most people don’t care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations.” -Doug Coupland
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“There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge… observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts reflection combines them experimentation verifies the result of that combination.” -Denis Diderot
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“The greatest gift is the 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.” -Moses Hadas
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“Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.” -Horace
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“Knowledge is proud that it knows so much wisdom is humble that it knows no more.” -William Cowper
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“When you deal with a person who’s experiencing dementia, you can see where they’re struggling with knowledge. You can see what they forget completely, what they forget but they know what they once knew. You can tell how they’re trying to remember.” -Walter Mosley
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“Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous.” -Vincent Van Gogh
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“The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.” -Blaise Pascal
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“The more extensive a man’s knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.” -Benjamin Disraeli
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“It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.” -Joseph Wood Krutch
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“Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge.” -Stephen Hawking
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“Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.” -George Eliot
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“Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated.” -Thomas Sowell
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“The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.” -James A. Baldwin
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“Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well but their manners should be of the greatest concern.” -R. Buckminster Fuller
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“Some people drink from the fountain of knowledge, others just gargle.” -Robert Anthony
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“The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.” -Rene Descartes
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“Ardor, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.” -Ambrose Bierce
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“Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one’s being.” -Orison Swett Marden
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“A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance.” -Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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“In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.” -Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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“It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.” -Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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“Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.” -Carl Jung
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“Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only pain we obey.” -Marcel Proust
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“As knowledge increases, wonder deepens.” -Charles Morgan
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“The degree of one’s emotions varies inversely with one’s knowledge of the facts.” -Bertrand Russell
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“The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.” -Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“Universities exist to transmit knowledge and understanding of ideas and values to students not to provide entertainment for spectators or employment for athletes.” -Milton Friedman
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“Happiness exists on earth, and it is won through prudent exercise of reason, knowledge of the harmony of the universe, and constant practice of generosity.” -Jose Marti
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“It is now common knowledge that the average American gains 7 pounds between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Day.” -Marilu Henner
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“If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.” -Mao Zedong
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“Knowledge about life is one thing effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.” -William James
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“The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.” -Henry Ward Beecher
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“No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.” -Franklin D. Roosevelt
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“Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.” -Gilbert K. Chesterton
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“Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.” -T. S. Eliot
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“Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.” -Aldous Huxley
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“Checking the results of a decision against its expectations shows executives what their strengths are, where they need to improve, and where they lack knowledge or information.” -Peter Drucker
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“Do not share the knowledge with which you have been blessed with everyone in general, as you do with some people in particular and know that there are some men in whom Allah, may He he glorified, has placed hidden secrets, which they are forbidden to reveal.” -Ali ibn Abi Talib
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“God had brought me to my knees and made me acknowledge my own nothingness, and out of that knowledge I had been reborn. I was no longer the centre of my life and therefore I could see God in everything.” -Bede Griffiths
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“Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.” -Alfred Lord Tennyson
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“Anyone who thinks that the vice-president can take a position independent of the president of his administration simply has no knowledge of politics or government. You are his choice in a political marriage, and he expects your absolute loyalty.” -Hubert H. Humphrey
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“We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.” -H. L. Mencken
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“Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.” -Carl Sagan
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“We did it Disneyland, in the knowledge that most of the people I talked to thought it would be a financial disaster – closed and forgotten within the first year.” -Walt Disney
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“It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.” -Voltaire
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“Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.” -John Adams
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“Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.” -Lord Byron
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“The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.” -Chanakya
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“I think I have a duty as a recovering guy to help, to make my knowledge of what I went through accessible.” -Charlie Sheen
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“Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom.” -Clifford Stoll
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“I’m a student of world religion, so to me, it’s hugely important to have knowledge and to understand what people are doing.” -Will Smith
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“Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.” -Ludwig van Beethoven
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“Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.” -Calvin Coolidge
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“Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying.” -Johannes Tauler
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“There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.” -Napoleon Hill
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“What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.” -George Bernard Shaw
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“Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.” -Lao Tzu
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“Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in your seeds.” -Khalil Gibran
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“The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism.” -Albert Camus
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“The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.” -Sigmund Freud
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“Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.” -Friedrich Nietzsche
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“Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.” -Charles Darwin
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“Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else’s skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too.” -Frederick Buechner
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“Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.” -Charles Spurgeon
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“The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.” -Aristotle
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“True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.” -Henry David Thoreau
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“I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.” -Robert Fulghum
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“Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.” -Jimi Hendrix
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“Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.” -Augustus Hare
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“The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.” -Benjamin Franklin
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“Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.” -Abraham Joshua Heschel
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“True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.” -Socrates
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“The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.” -John F. Kennedy
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“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.” -Isaac Asimov
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“A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.” -Thomas Carlyle
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“There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.” -Albert Einstein
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“For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.” -Audrey Hepburn
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“A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.” -Theodore Roosevelt
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“The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another’s, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.” -Leo Buscaglia
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“To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.” -Kong Fu Zi
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“Knowledge is soon changed, then lost in the mist, an echo half-heard.” -Gene Wolfe
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“Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.” -Bruce Lee
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“Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.” -Princess Diana
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“The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity.” -Miguel de Cervantes
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“Any knowledge that doesn’t lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.” -Wislawa Szymborska
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“To acquire knowledge, one must study but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.” -Marilyn vos Savant
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“We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.” -John Archibald Wheeler
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“Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.” -Horace Mann
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“I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance.” -Ruben Blades
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“The ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained.” -David Bohm
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“Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.” -Ralph Cudworth
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“I’m hungry for knowledge. The whole thing is to learn every day, to get brighter and brighter. That’s what this world is about. You look at someone like Gandhi, and he glowed. Martin Luther King glowed. Muhammad Ali glows. I think that’s from being bright all the time, and trying to be brighter.” -Jay-Z
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“If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.” -Margaret Fuller
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“It is one of my sources of happiness never to desire a knowledge of other people’s business.” -Dolley Madison
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“The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes.” -Avicenna
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“Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.” -Pericles
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“A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.” -Carlos Castaneda
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“We don’t know all the answers. If we knew all the answers we’d be bored, wouldn’t we? We keep looking, searching, trying to get more knowledge.” -Jack LaLanne
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“Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.” -Simone Weil
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“They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it’s not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.” -Terry Pratchett
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“I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions.” -Plutarch
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“The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge.” -Meister Eckhart
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“This life that has been given to us as a gift, as such a precious gift. To really try to understand it, really try to recognize it, is the greatest meditation. Through the media of this Knowledge we can tap into our inner sources that are so beautiful.” -Prem Rawat
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“Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.” -Karl Popper
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“Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.” -Dante Alighieri
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“Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility.” -Robin Morgan
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“It is harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge.” -Arnold H. Glasow
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“We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge.” -John Naisbitt
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“Knowledge is like money: to be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in quantity and, hopefully, in value.” -Louis L’Amour
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“If you first fortify yourself with the true knowledge of the Universal Self, and then live in the midst of wealth and worldliness, surely they will in no way affect you.” -Ramakrishna
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“To be educated, a person doesn’t have to know much or be informed, but he or she does have to have been exposed vulnerably to the transformative events of an engaged human life.” -Thomas More
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“Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.” -G. I. Gurdjieff
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“Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.” -Brian Tracy
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“Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.” -e. e. cummings
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“The true method of knowledge is experiment.” -William Blake
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“Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.” -Leonardo da Vinci
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“If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man’s future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual’s total development lags behind?” -Maria Montessori
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“The aim of education is the knowledge not of facts but of values.” -William Ralph Inge
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“Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power but, character, health, knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.” -Roger Babson
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“The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.” -Henry Ford
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“The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.” -Anais Nin
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“We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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“To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.” -Nicolaus Copernicus
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“I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.” -Thomas Jefferson
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“Ignorance is the curse of God knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.” -William Shakespeare
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“Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Knowledge is love and light and vision.” -Helen Keller
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“When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it – this is knowledge.” -Confucius
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“A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.” -Marcus Garvey
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“To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.”
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