Knowledge Quotes
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The one thing we do not know is the limit of the knowable.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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I feel like an old-fashioned mountain climber when I am making discoveries, seeing something for the first time, realizing that no human before me has ever seen what I am seeing. It takes your breath away - for just a moment, you feel a pause in time, as you know you are crossing a boundary into a new realm of knowledge.
Heidi Hammel
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Two there are who are never satisfied -- the lover of the world and the lover of knowledge.
Rumi
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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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It is by no means certain that we advance our philosophical quest by reading Plato or Aristotle. It may increase our knowledge of history but not of the world.
Jostein Gaarder
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Knowledge is very important and one of the few things that accompanies us into the next life.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
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If we would have new knowledge, we must get a whole world of new questions.
Susanne Langer
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Abundance of knowledge does not teach men to be wise.
Heraclitus
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He got up and talked about what they ran and why they ran it. I was just amazed at his presence and his knowledge.
Bret Bielema
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Faith isn't knowledge, Rachel. Faith is a tool. Faith keeps us going until we get the knowledge. Faith keeps us striving until we reach the consequences of our most important decisions.
Brandon Mull
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He who does not desire much more from things than knowledge of them easily makes peace with his soul.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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I also think that everyone has an elitist approach to his own art, a complex knowledge of it, whether he is a clockmaker or an engineer. And I think it's perfectly legitimate to make use of this knowledge because it enriches the overall texture of life.
Peter Greenaway
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Healing, he told us, depends on experiential knowledge: You can be fully in charge of your life only if you can acknowledge the reality of your body, in all its visceral dimensions.
Bessel van der Kolk
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My nutritional knowledge is good enough to figure out what's good, what's bad, and where my leeway is.
Brian O'Driscoll
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Yes! He knew how she would love. He had not loved her without gaining that instinctive knowledge of what capabilities were in her. Her soul would walk in glorious sunlight if any man was worthy, by his power of loving, to win back her love.
Elizabeth Gaskell
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Now, in order to claim some knowledge of painting, Vitruvius speaks of the consideration of the perfect human body and about how good sculptors and painters in order to make it give it a height of ten faces, and I say that according to them they have read and they say that this proportion is based on knowledge of measurement and that it happens that without it it is not possible to have proportion or consideration because those who are not cognizant of this do not count.
El Greco
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By proceeding with due care, every age will add to the common stock of knowledge; the mysteries that still lie concealed in nature may be gradually opened, arts will flourish and increase, mankind will improve, and appear more worthy of their situation in the universe, as they approach more towards a perfect knowledge of nature.
Colin Maclaurin
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In Phebus realm, in knowledge as in verse,All things are clear, the sun of Phoebus clear,Clear was his crystal, the Kastalian.What you cannot clearly say, you don't know:To tongue of man his thought brings word:What's said obscurely is what's thought obscurely.
Esaias Tegner
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Love is subsequent to knowledge and to the thing known, for nothing unknown is loved.
Nicholas of Cusa
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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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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
Will Durant
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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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That a religion may be true, it must have knowledge of our nature.
Blaise Pascal
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Although my knowledge grows more and more, nevertheless I do not for that reason believe that it can ever be actually infinite, since it can never reach a point so high that it will be unable to attain any greater increase.
Rene Descartes