Knowledge Quotes
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The whole visible world is perhaps nothing other than a motivation of man’s wish to rest for a moment - an attempt to falsify the fact of knowledge, to try to turn the knowledge into the goal.
Franz Kafka -
Saying the words that come from knowledge is no sign of having it.
Aristotle
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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.
A. E. Waite -
I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.
Albert Einstein -
The primitive sign of wanting is trying to get.
G. E. M. Anscombe -
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 -
Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
Socrates -
Knowledge is a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.
Francis Bacon
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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
F. H. Bradley -
What are the relationships between power and knowledge? There are two bad, short answers: 1. Knowledge provides an instrument that those in power can wield for their own ends. 2. A new body of knowledge brings into being a new class of people or institutions that can exercise a new kind of power.
Ian Hacking -
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 -
Imagination without knowledge may create beautiful things, knowledge without imagination can create only perfect ones.
Albert Einstein -
While our amplified knowledge of genetics - and the increasing precision of the field - does make it tempting to take on celebrity cases, retro-genetics can't always provide clear answers.
Sam Kean -
Knowledge of the fact differs from knowledge of the reason for the fact.
Aristotle
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I have to expend an awful lot of energy actively undoing the impact of my name. Understandably, people assume that I have at least some connection to Iran. The truth is that I don't. I have very little knowledge about the culture, the language, the history. I've never been to Iran. I've never even been inside a mosque.
Said Sayrafiezadeh -
I'm quite ignorant about fashion and I'm colourblind, so it's all a tad tricky. My only knowledge of that world comes through Christopher Bailey, whom I first met in 2008 when I did a campaign for Burberry that featured musicians, artists, actors and sportsmen.
Eddie Redmayne -
Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven’t got the remotest knowledge of how to live, nor the smallest instinct about when to die.
Oscar Wilde -
It is my inner conviction that the development of science seeks in the main to satisfy the longing for pure knowledge.
Albert Einstein -
Timidity betrays want of powers, and audacity a want of skill. There are, indeed, two things, knowledge and opinion, of which the one makes its possessor really to know, the other to be ignorant.
Hippocrates -
'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 Van Halen
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The acquisition of knowledge - knowledge of both the world and of their own religion - will inoculate young people against extremist ideologies.
Hamza Yusuf -
When knowledge is limited - it leads to folly... When knowledge exceeds a certain limit, it leads to exploitation.
Abu Bakr -
It is just as important to make knowledge live and keep it alive as to solve specific problems.
Albert Einstein -
The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.
Socrates