Knowledge Quotes
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For knowledge, too, is itself power.
Francis Bacon
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Knowledge, that tendeth but to satisfaction, is but as a courtesan, which is for pleasure, and not for fruit or generation.
Francis Bacon
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It was my privilege to serve with Paul Ryan in the House and on the Ways and Means Committee. Ryan's vast experience and bold, reform-minded ideas were always evident. His knowledge of the federal budget is widely recognized.
Bob Beauprez
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The consequences of a plethora of half-digested theoretical knowledge are deplorable.
Alfred North Whitehead
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Nothing tends so much to the advancement of knowledge as the application of a new instrument.
Humphry Davy
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I couldn't really experience being an author when I was still working in publishing - I was trying to negotiate being both. Sometimes the knowledge doesn't translate between the two roles.
Jennifer Gilmore
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I think, as a black man, I have a responsibility to have knowledge and have an opinion.
Chance The Rapper
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It wasn't a problem for me drawing humans although I had originally come to the studio with the idea that what I had to offer them was my knowledge in the drawing of animals.
Marc Davis
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There is no more merit in being able to attach a correct description to a picture than in being able to find out what is wrong with a stalled motorcar. In each case it is special knowledge.
W. Somerset Maugham
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In order that knowledge may not run riot, the author of the Gita has insisted on devotion accompanying it and has given it the first place.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Self-knowledge will reveal the elements of biological human nature from which modern social life proliferated in all its strange forms.
E. O. Wilson
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In the brain, you have connections between the neurons called synapses, and they can change. All your knowledge is stored in those synapses.
Geoffrey Hinton
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It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.
Brooks Atkinson
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You can't mastermind everything. You'll go crazy. Just show up and play.
Eric Clapton Blind Faith
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Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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True wisdom consists in two things: Knowledge of God and Knowledge of Self.
John Calvin
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The greatest enemy of progress is the illusion of knowledge.
John Young
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The best aid to give is intellectual aid, a gift of useful knowledge. A gift of knowledge is infinitely preferable to a gift of material things.
E. F. Schumacher
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People will listen when they're ready to listen and not before. Don't waste time with people who want to argue. They'll keep you immobilized forever. Look for people who are already open to something new.
Daniel Quinn
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The sum total of all possible knowledge of God is not possible for a human being, not even through a true revelation. But it is one of the worthiest inquiries to see how far our reason can go in the knowledge of God.
Immanuel Kant
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Knowledge is not for knowing: knowledge is for cutting.
Michel Foucault
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But you must not change one thing, one pebble, one grain of sand, until you know what good and evil will follow on that act. The world is in balance, in Equilibrium. A wizard's power of Changing and Summoning can shake the balance of the world. It is dangerous, that power...It must follow knowledge, and serve need.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.
Daniel J. Boorstin
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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