Knowledge Quotes
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Thought from which no emotion springs is sterile. The knowledge that has no bearing on the conduct of life is vain.
John Lancaster Spalding
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Knowledge without action is wastefulness and action without knowledge is foolishness.
Al-Ghazali
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Obedience to God's will is the secret of spiritual knowledge and insight.
Eric Liddell
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Knowledge is not intelligence.
Heraclitus
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The totem pole, for example, is a remnant from an era where there was much greater communication between man and the animals - when, in fact, men went to the animals to learn, and from them first acquired knowledge of herbs and corrective medicinal behavior.
Jane Roberts
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Nothing mitigated failure except the knowledge that it did not matter.
Elizabeth Goudge
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Certainty, not data, is knowledge.
L. Ron Hubbard
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Unless it grows out of yourself no knowledge is really yours, it is only borrowed plumage.
D. T. Suzuki
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Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in your seeds.
Khalil Gibran
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Let us tenderly and kindly cherish therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.
John Adams
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For all knowledge and wonder (which is the seed of knowledge) is an impression of pleasure in itself.
Francis Bacon
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Your impulses are your closest communication with your inner self, because in the waking state they are the spontaneous urgings towards action, rising from that deep inner knowledge of yourself that you have in dreams.
Jane Roberts
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The worst way to read, he said, is with the thought that you do not have enough time. The only way to read is in the knowledge that there is an infinite amount of time stretching ahead, and that if one wishes to taste only afew sentences per day one is free to do so.
Gabriel Josipovici
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I am profoundly grateful that all of my life I have had a simple faith that Jesus is the Christ. That witness has been confirmed to me hundreds of times. It is the crowning knowledge of my soul. It is the spiritual light of my being. It is the cornerstone of my life.
James E. Faust
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Eve tasted the apple in the Garden of Eden in order to slake that intense thirst for knowledge that the simple pleasure of picking flowers and talking to Adam could not satisfy.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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The wise man is not waiting for the realness of the world to prove itself to him. How can one be an authority before the experiencing of this realness? My master taught me-and to me it seems chash, meaning correct-that you must not defend against the entering of knowledge.
Tad Williams
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He who has knowledge of the just and the good and beautiful ... will not, when in earnest, write them in ink.
Plato
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The social stock of knowledge differentiates reality by degrees of familiarity... my knowledge of my own occupation and its world is very rich and specific, while I have only very sketchy knowledge of the occupational worlds of others.
Peter L. Berger
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Fear is a question. What are you afraid of and why? Our fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if we explore them.
Marilyn French
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Considered now as a possession, one may define culture as the residuum of a large body of useless knowledge that has been well and truly forgotten.
Albert J. Nock
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In the knowledge of truth, what really matters is the possession of it, not the impulse under which it was sought.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Science begets knowledge; opinion, ignorance.
Hippocrates
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In a crazy way, writing is a lot like any kind of very complex game - like chess, where you have the knowledge as you're composing all of the ramifications of each move, of each choice you make.
Adam Ross
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Our initial idea with Stripe was that for people like us - those building apps and websites - it was incredibly difficult to take payments. So with an open mind, and maybe a useful lack of knowledge about the industry, we started building a payment product.
John Collison