Knowledge Quotes
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Give us, O God, the vision which can see Your love in the world in spite of human failure.Give us the faith to trust Your goodness in spite of our ignorance and weakness.Give us the knowledge that we may continue to pray with understanding hearts.And show us what each one of us can do to set forward the coming of the day of universal peace.
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I have a thirst - it's an awful word, but I'm thirsty for knowledge. I like knowing things, the odder the better, the more obtuse the better.
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As the body dieth when the soul departeth, so the soul of man dieth, when it hath not the knowledge of God.
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Even in such technical lines as engineering, about 15% of one's financial success is due one's technical knowledge and about 85% is due to skill in human engineering, to personality and the ability to lead people.
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Knowledge can be conveyed, but not wisdom. It can be found, it can be lived, it is possible to be carried by it, miracles can be performed with it, but it cannot be expressed in words and taught.
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The way of success is the way of continuous pursuit of knowledge.
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Happiness is not to be found in knowledge, but in the acquisition of knowledge...
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Certainty, not data, is knowledge.
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The whole visible world is perhaps nothing more than than the rationalization of a man who wants to find peace for a moment. An attempt to falsify the actuality of knowledge, to regard knowledge as a goal still to be reached.
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I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.
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Nowness is the essence of meditation. Whatever one does, whatever one tries to practice, is trying to see what is here and now. One becomes aware of the present moment through such means as concentrating on the breathing. This is based on developing the knowledge of nowness, for each respiration is unique. It is an expression of now.
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Our civilization has evolved through the continuous adjustment of society to the stimulus of new knowledge.
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We too, through lack of knowledge and of sufficiently mature reflection, mistook the visible outward appearance of the phenomenon for the phenomenon itself.
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... I distrust manifest knowledge.
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The breach between the mind and body can’t be healed by more knowledge.
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According to the technical language of old writers, a thing and its qualities are described as subject and attributes; and thus a man's faculties and acts are attributes of which he is the subject. The mind is the subject in which ideas inhere. Moreover, the man's faculties and acts are employed upon external objects; and from objects all his sensations arise. Hence the part of a man's knowledge which belongs to his own mind, is subjective: that which flows in upon him from the world external to him, is objective.
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All of the western world raises its children uncircumcised and it seems logical that, with the extent of health knowledge in those countries, such a practice must be safe.
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He knew now, and the knowledge was hard, that his task had never been to undo what he had done, but to finish what he had begun.
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Of all the frictional resistances, the one that most retards human movement is ignorance, what Buddha called 'the greatest evil in the world.' The friction which results from ignorance ... can be reduced only by the spread of knowledge and the unification of the heterogeneous elements of humanity. No effort could be better spent.
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Knowledge come from looking around; wisdom comes from looking up.
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The idea that myth is the opposite of knowledge, or the opposite of truth, is simply to disallow it. It is like saying poetry is the opposite of truth.
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The medicines of today are based upon thousands of years of knowledge accumulated from folklore, serendipity and scientific discovery. The new medicines of tomorrow will be based on the discoveries that are being made now, arising from basic research in laboratories around the world.
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I am a thief of knowledge, and in a survival way, I had to solve all the problems around me.
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The will to do springs from the knowledge that we can do.
