Knowledge Quotes
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Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; and love by love.
Thomas S. Szasz
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Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.
Sophocles
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Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.
Sandra Carey
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Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; an argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
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I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge - myth is more potent than history - dreams are more powerful than facts - hope always triumphs over experience - laughter is the cure for grief - love is stronger than death
Robert Fulghum
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If the school sends out children with a desire for knowledge and some idea of how to acquire and use it, it will have done its work
Richard Livingstone
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Moderation, which consists in an indifference about little things, and in a prudent and well-proportioned zeal about things of importance, can proceed from nothing but true knowledge, which has its foundation in self-acquaintance.
Plato
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The trouble is that rich people, well-to-do people, very often don`t really know who the poor are; and that is why we can forgive them, for knowledge can only lead to love, and love to service. And so, if they are not touched by them, it`s because th
Mother Teresa of Calcutta
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Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The Roots of Violence: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice, Politics without principles
Mahatma Gandhi
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Necessity is the mother of invention, it is true, but its father is creativity, and knowledge is the midwife
Jonathan Schattke
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A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician
Hippocrates
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We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals. Remote from universal nature, and living by complicated artifice, man in civilization surveys the creature through the glass of his knowledge and sees thereby a feather magnified ...
Henry Beston
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Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
Carl Sagan
Subject: Science QuotesSource: brainyquote.com
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We must strive for freedom if we strive for self-knowledge. The task of self-knowledge and of further self-development is of such importance and seriousness, it demands such intensity of effort, that to attempt it any old way and amongst other things is i...
George Gurdjieff
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We must strive for freedom if we strive for self-knowledge. The task of self-knowledge and of further self-development is of such importance and seriousness, it demands such intensity of effort, that to attempt it any old way and amongst other things is i...
George Gurdjieff
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The passionate controversies of one era are viewed as sterile preoccupations by another, for knowledge alters what we seek as well as what we find.
Freda Adler
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Everything you read in newspapers is absolutely true, except for that rare story of which you happen to have first-hand knowledge
Erwin Knoll
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I do not know what `moss` stands for in the proverb, but if it stood for useful knowledge... I gathered more moss by rolling than I ever did at school."
Ernest Shakleton
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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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The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.
Elbert Hubbard
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Real knowledge is to know the extent of one`s ignorance.
Confucius
Subject: Ignorance Quotes :: Knowledge QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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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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And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing
Bible
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I think there is a good reason why the propaganda system works that way. It recognizes that the public will not support the actual policies. Therefore it is important to prevent any knowledge or understanding of them.
Avram Noam Chomsky
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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.
Andy Klotz
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…a few philosophers really do important work. This applies to the so called ‘critical philosophy’ and to the theory of knowledge or epistemology. This class of workers I call epistemologists to avoid the disagreeable implications of the term ‘phil...
Alfred Korzybski
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If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.
Ahmed Bedier
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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of knowledge
Abraham Joshua Heschel
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Of course there`s a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don`t take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates.
Abbott Lawrence Lowell
