Knowledge Quotes
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Knowledge has its end in itself, apart from any idea of life and propagation of the species.
Remy de Gourmont
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As Plato insisted two thousand years ago, it is not by means of the image that moral, ethical, or political knowledge is produced.
Abigail Solomon-Godeau
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Discoveries are made by pursuing possibilities suggested by existing knowledge.
Michael Polanyi
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Most science fiction is based on our knowledge now and uses that to project the future.
Judith Tarr
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Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.
Kofi Annan
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Faith in revelation does not destroy the rationality of our knowledge but rather permits it to develop more fully. Even as, indeed, grace does not destroy nature but heals and perfects it, so faith, through the influence it wields from above over reason as reason, permits the development of a far more true and fruitful rational activity.
Etienne Gilson
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I've gained first hand knowledge of the challenges faced by people with disabilities. It's made me understand that those of us who have full use of our physical faculties owe an enormous amount of respect and sensitivity to people who don't.
Bill Clinton
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The image is not a closed field of knowledge; it is a whirling, centrifugal field. It is not a field of knowledge like any other; it is a movement demanding all the anthropological aspects of being and time.
Georges Didi-Huberman
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Be sure the safest rule is that we should not dare to live in any scene in which we dare not die. But, once realise what the true object is in life that it is not pleasure, not knowledge, not even fame itself, 'that last infirmity of noble minds' but that it is the development of character, the rising to a higher, nobler, purer standard, the building-up of the perfect Man and then, so long as we feel that this is going on, and will (we trust) go on for evermore, death has for us no terror; it is not a shadow, but a light; not an end, but a beginning!
Lewis Carroll
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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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In ancient times, those who followed the Way did not try to give people knowledge thereof, but kept them ignorant.
Lao Tzu
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Worry affects the circulation, the heart, the glands, the whole nervous system. I have never known a man who died from over work, but many who died from doubt.
Charles Horace Mayo
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No one knew, but it cannot be stressed too frequently, that for effective incantation knowledge is neither necessary nor assumed.
John Kenneth Galbraith
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The only secure knowledge is that I exist.
Rene Descartes
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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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Knowledge is Power, and it's very lightweight.
Cody Lundin
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The inner meaning of history . . . involves speculation and an attempt to get at the truth, subtle explanation of the causes and origins of existing things, and deep knowledge of the how and why of events. History, therefore, is firmly rooted in philosophy. It deserves to be accounted a branch of philosophy.
Bob Irwin
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If men must die, why not in honorable pursuit of knowledge? Far be it that our ideas of manhood should be dwarfed to the size of a golden dollar.
George W. Melville
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The more knowledge (of deen) you have the more humble you should be. Instead you are becoming judgemental.
Nouman Ali Khan
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Great is the faith of the flush of knowledge and of the investigation of the depths of qualities and things.
Walt Whitman
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Happy families do have certain things in common. Today we finally have the knowledge to know what those things are.
Bruce Feiler
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We must develop knowledge optimization initiatives to leverage our key learnings.
Scott Adams
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God is thy law, thou mine: to know no more Is woman's happiest knowledge and her praise. With thee conversing I forget all time.
John Milton
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I am mainly concerned with unqualified knowledge, by contrast with the varieties of expert knowledge: scientific knowledge of various sorts, legal knowledge, medically expert knowledge, and so on.
Ernest Sosa