Knowledge Quotes
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Stupidity exceeds and undercuts materiality, runs loose, wins a few rounds, recedes, gets carried home in a clutch of denial-and returns. Essentially linked to the inexhaustible, stupidity is also that which fatigues knowledge and wears down history.
Avital Ronell
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Through knowledge, you can develop the economy. Without knowledge, you cannot improve a society.
Newton Lee
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There is something irreversible about acquiring knowledge; and the simulation of the search for it differs in a most profound way from the reality.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
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Conversation with a friend will only bear good fruit of knowledge when both think only of the matter under consideration and forget that they are friends.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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It is common knowledge now that we depend on insects for our continued existence; that, without key pollinators, the human population would collapse in less than a decade.
John Burnside
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Abstract knowledge is not enough. At the end of the day, it's about how one reacts to circumstances in an extreme real-time situation.
Boaz Lavie
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To what part of electrical science are we not indebted to Faraday? He has increased our knowledge of the hidden and unknown to such an extent, that all subsequent writers are compelled so frequently to mention his name and quote his papers, that the very repetition becomes monotonous. How humiliating it may be to acknowledge so great a share of successful investigation to one man.
Alfred Smee
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Today a man of knowledge might well feel as though he were God transformed into an animal.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Finally, this book can — and should — be read as a story of growth from knowledge into wisdom, of intellectual and spiritual education.
Bob Buford
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Both of my mom's parents were music teachers, so I got a lot of knowledge about everything from classical music to jazz to musicals.
Jillian Hervey
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He had, they said, tasted in succession all the apples of the tree of knowledge, and, whether from hunger or disgust, had ended by tasting the forbidden fruit.
Victor Hugo
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Since there is no such thing as complete knowledge of a subject, one is always working to improve one's reading, writing, etc., of a subject. As Thomas Henry Huxley said, 'If a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, is there anyone who knows so much as to be out of danger?' …. The problems of learning to read or write are inexhaustible.
Neil Postman
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Photography is such an important instrument in the education of our feelings and perception because of its duality. Photography represents the world we know, and suggests a world beyond what we can see. Creativity is the gap between perception and knowledge.
Emmet Gowin
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The skills associated with knowledge creation are totally different from the skills associated with production.
John Quelch
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I promise you, if you will heed the voice of warning of the Holy Ghost and will follow His direction, you will be blessed with the ministering of angels, which will add wisdom, knowledge, power, and glory to your life. Remember, the Lord is bound by solemn covenant to bless our lives according to our faithfulness.
L. Tom Perry
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One of our most important tasks will be to save future generations from a similar political fate and to maintain for ever watchful in them a knowledge of the menace of Jewry. For this reason alone it is vital that the Passion play be continued at Oberammergau; for never has the menace of Jewry been so convincingly portrayed as in this presentation of what happened in the times of the Romans. There one sees in Pontius Pilate a Roman racially and intellectually so superior, that he stands like a firm, clean rock in the middle of the whole muck and mire of Jewry.
Adolf Hitler
