Knowledge Quotes
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I say there is no darkness but ignorance.
William Shakespeare
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Scientific knowledge advances haltingly and is stimulated by contention and doubt.
Claude Levi-Strauss
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God calls himself "Baseer" [Observant], so that the knowledge that He is watching you may keep you from sinning.
Rumi
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Knowledge is Life with wings.
William Blake
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True knowledge is that knowledge which makes man after self-realization or union with God assert that his real Self is in everything and everybody.
Meher Baba
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He who replies to words of doubt doth put the light of knowledge out.
William Blake
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Knowledge is rarely enough to spark change; it takes emotion to bring knowledge to a boil.
Chip Heath
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The buyer, the prospect, the customer expects you to have knowledge of their stuff, not just your stuff.
Jeffrey Gitomer
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While Jane Fonda has no shortage of knowledge to share, I was particularly moved and fascinated by her recovery from bulimia, which she battled with for over 25 years.
Amanda de Cadenet
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Typography as the first mechanization of a handicraft is itself the perfect instance not of a new knowledge, but of applied knowledge. (p. 171)
Marshall McLuhan
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People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little. It is plain that an ignorant person thinks everything he does know important, and he tells it to everybody. But a well-educated man is not so ready to display his learning; he would have too much to say, and he sees that there is much more to be said, so he holds his peace.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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One who does not rouse themself when it is time to rise, who, though capable, is full of sloth, whose will and thought are weak, that lazy and idle person will never find their way to true knowledge.
Gautama Buddha
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Institutions of knowledge, of foresight and care, such as medicine, help to support the political power. It's also obvious, even to the point of scandal, in certain cases related to psychiatry.
Michel Foucault
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In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others.
Joseph Priestley
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He who speaks a bit of a foreign language has more delight in it than he who speaks it well; pleasure goes along with superficial knowledge.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Basic research is to work at the very edge, the very border of, of knowledge, and move that border forward. You look and look for new secrets, and you don't know where it's going to lead you.
Fred Kavli
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The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.
Sigmund Freud
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Wilderness is two things-fact and feeling. It is a fund of knowledge and a spring of influence. It is the ultimate source of health-terrestrial and human.
Benton MacKaye
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I think the knowledge of where you come from gives you more of an affinity for understanding different cultures and learning.
Aldis Hodge
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A paranoid is someone who has all the facts.
William S. Burroughs
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What wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear without the knowledge of evil? He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true wayfaring Christian.
John Milton
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A woman's intuition has often proved truer than a man's arrogant assumption of knowledge.
Mahatma Gandhi
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One should hardly have to tell academicians that information is a valuable resource: knowledge is power. And yet this occupies a slum dwelling in the town of economics. Mostly it is ignored.
George Stigler
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I comfort myself with the knowledge that if Duval ever feels smothered by me, it will be because I am holding a pillow over his face.
Robin LaFevers