Knowledge Quotes
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There is so much to read and the days are so short! I get more hungry for knowledge every day, and less able to satisfy my hunger.
George Eliot
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I call that man awake who, with conscious knowledge and understanding, can perceive the deep unreasoning powers in his soul, his whole innermost strength, desire and weakness, and knows how to reckon with himself.
Hermann Hesse
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You have to have someone coming off the bench who has experience, knowledge and ability.
Phil Jackson
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The way to escape our entrapment in this world of matter is to acquire secret “knowledge” (= gnosis) from above of who we really are, how we came to be here, and how we can return to our heavenly, spiritual home.
Bart Ehrman
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What makes knowledge automatic is what gets you to Carnegie Hall - practice, practice, practice.
Alison Gopnik
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Woe be to him who tries to isolate one department of knowledge from the rest. All science is one: language, literature and history, physics, mathematics and philosophy; subjects which seem the most remote from one another are in reality connected, or rather they all form a single system.
Jules Michelet
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Effective science began when it passed from the occasional amateur into the hands of men who made the winning of knowledge their special function or profession.
William Wickenden
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Wilderness gave us knowledge. Wilderness made us human. We came from here. Perhaps that is why so many of us feel a strong bond to this land called Serengeti; it is the land of our youth.
Boyd Norton
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Discretion has been termed the better part of valour, and it is more certain, that diffidence is the better part of knowledge.
Charles Caleb Colton
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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers, and I linger on the shore, And the individual withers, and the world is more and more.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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They must take me for a fool, or even worse, a lunatic. And no wonder ,for I am so intensely conscious of my misfortune and my misery is so overwhelming that I am powerless to resist it and am being turned into stone, devoid of all knowledge or feeling.
Miguel de Cervantes
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Humble because of knowledge; mighty by sacrifice.
Rudyard Kipling
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What we call knowledge does not and cannot have the purpose of producing representations of an independent reality, but instead has an adaptive function.
Ernst von Glasersfeld
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One of the most valuable things any person can learn is the art of using the knowledge and experience of others.
Napoleon Hill
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On religion in particular, the time appears to me to have come, when it is a duty of all who, being qualified in point of knowledge, have, on mature consideration, satisfied themselves that the current opinions are not only false, but hurtful, to make their dissent known.
John Stuart Mill
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Teachers are often, and understandably, impatient for their students to develop clear and adequate ideas. But putting ideas in relation to each other isn't a simple job. It's confusing and this confusion does take time. All of us need time for our confusion if we are to build the breadth and depth that give significance to our knowledge.
Eleanor Duckworth
