Honore de Balzac Quotes
In the medical profession a horse and carriage are more necessary than any scientific knowledge.
Honore de Balzac
Quotes to Explore
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Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.
Isaac Asimov
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The fondest dream of the information age is to create an archive of all knowledge. You might call it the Alexandrian fantasy, after the great library founded by Ptolemy I in 286 BC.
Gary Wolf
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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 the best of my knowledge, my youngest reader is 10 and the oldest is 95.
Gail Carriger
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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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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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The research I have been doing - studying how foodstuffs yield energy in living cells - does not lead to the kind of knowledge that can be expected to give immediate practical benefits to mankind. If I have chosen this field of study, it was because I believed in its importance in spite of its theoretical character.
Hans Adolf Krebs
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Acting isn't a singular profession, it is a collaborate profession.
Edie McClurg
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The more knowledge you have, the greater will be your fear of Allah.
Abu Bakr
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To my knowledge, there is no blacklist. But there is a mindset, even among liberal producers, that says 'He may be difficult, so let's avoid him.'
Ed Asner
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Computation, storage, and communications capacity are in the hands of practically every connected person - and these are the basic physical capital means necessary for producing information, knowledge and culture, in the hands of something like 600 million to a billion people around the planet.
Yochai Benkler
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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
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The knowledge from an enlightened person breaks on the hard rocks of ignorance.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
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'The Driver' wasn't commercially successful at the time, but when I was a teenager, I had no knowledge of that.
Edgar Wright
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If they exert it not for good, they will for evil; if they advance not knowledge, they will perpetuate ignorance.
Frances Wright
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If one must fight or create, it is necessary that this be preceded by the broadest possible knowledge.
Karel Capek
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Give people knowledge and they really eat it up and they appreciate it a lot and the more that knowledge is made available to people, the more they will utilize it and let it be a part of them.
La Monte Young
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The library, with its Daedalian labyrinth, mysterious hush, and faintly ominous aroma of knowledge, has been replaced by the computer's cheap glow, pesky chirp, and data spillage.
P. J. O'Rourke
