Knowledge Quotes
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For centuries, cultures throughout the world have used indigenous technologies to navigate life's complexities. From navigator-priests in Micronesia to mystics in India, vast sums of knowledge are available if we but recognize it.
Elizabeth Kapu'uwailani Lindsey
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It is a common sentence that Knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of Ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down. Knowledge, through patient and frugal centuries, enlarges discovery and makes record of it; Ignorance, wanting its day's dinner, lights a fire with the record, and gives a flavour to its one roast with the burnt souls of many generations.
George Eliot
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The soul is perfected by knowledge and virtue.
Thomas Aquinas
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Curiosity in children, is but an appetite for knowledge. The great reason why children abandon themselves wholly to silly pursuits and trifle away their time insipidly is, because they find their curiosity balked, and their inquiries neglected.
John Locke
Nazareth
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We want our legacy to stand upon the youth. We want to give knowledge to the younger generation and be a part of changing the game.
Takeoff
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Your earning ability today is largely dependent upon your knowledge, skill and your ability to combine that knowledge and skill in such a way that you contribute value for which customers are going to pay.
Brian Tracy
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Outward, thanks to the knowledge of physical laws, man could subdue nature, but inwardly, he remained a slave to it. For, when all is said and done, at what is aiming all this display or deployment of activity, if not to realized outward profits, to provide material pleasure or enjoyment. It is not the first time that men sell their birth right for a dish of lentils, and thus disown or repudiate or deny the best of thmeselves.
African Spir
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Philosophy is not a matter of knowledge; it is a matter of understanding, that is to say, of organizing what is know.
Anthony John Patrick Kenny
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Arrive at knowledge over small streamlets, and do not plunge immediately into the ocean, since progress must go from the easier to the more difficult.
Thomas Aquinas
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The knowledge of the omnipresence of God also means respect for the lives even of those who may be called opponents.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Being daily better informed about their knowledge than my adversaries themselves, I argued till finally one day they applied the one means that wins the easiest victory over reason: terror and force.
Adolf Hitler
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Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask - Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge.
Matthew Arnold
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Knowledge is that possession that no misfortune can destroy, no authority can revoke, and no enemy can control. This makes knowledge the greatest of all freedoms.
Bryant H. McGill
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Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, for opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.
John Milton
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If you have a great deal of knowledge, but you're governed by negative emotions, then you tend to use your knowledge in negative ways. Therefore, while you are learning, don't forget the importance of warmheartedness.
Dalai Lama
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A chess game, after all, is a fight in which all possible factors must be made use of, and in which a knowledge of the opponent's good and bad qualities is of the greatest importance.
Emanuel Lasker
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My own view about knowledge is we're always better to have knowledge.
Leroy Hood
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Knowledge of ideal beauty is not to be acquired. It is born with us. Innate ideas are in every man, born with him; theyare truly himself.
William Blake
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Scientific knowledge advances haltingly and is stimulated by contention and doubt.
Claude Levi-Strauss
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I respect knowledge of the psyche. I would be a therapist if I weren't an entertainer.
Jessica Simpson
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Humanity must accept that the food, the raw materials, the energy, the scientific knowledge and so on, belongs to everybody, that it is given by Divine providence for all peoples, the rich nations and what are called the developing nations. No one has the right to corner the goods of the world as is done today, whether that be oil or food or any of the things that we think are so important.
Benjamin Creme
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Successful people, in all callings, never stop acquiring specialized knowledge related to their major purpose, business, or profession.
Napoleon Hill