Knowledge Quotes
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The true wisdom of man consists in the knowledge of God the creator and Redeemer.
John Calvin
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All essential knowledge relates to existence, or only such knowledge as has an essential relationship to existence is essential knowledge.
Soren Kierkegaard
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There is hardly any contact more depressing to a young ardent creature than that of a mind in which years full of knowledge seem to have issued in a blank absence of interest or sympathy.
George Eliot
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Where there is no knowledge ignorance calls itself science.
George Bernard Shaw
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How can I tell you what I think until I've heard what I'm going to say?
Stephen Fry
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Knowledge is justice
Charlie Jane Anders
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It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.
Simone de Beauvoir
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Knowledge has no enemy except an ignorant man.
George Puttenham
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It's the knowledge derived from information that gives you a competitive edge.
Bill Gates
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You increase your self-respect when you feel you've done everything you ought to have done, and if there is nothing else to enjoy, there remains that chief of pleasures, the feeling of being pleased with oneself. A man gets an immense amount of satisfaction from the knowledge of having done good work and of having made the best use of his day, and when I am in this state I find that I thoroughly enjoy my rest and even the mildest forms of recreation.
Eugene Delacroix
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The value of little things was heightened by her enjoyment of them; the value of life itself was heightened because she had bought her knowledge of it with bitter sorrow and yet in her old age could wear it with such grace.
Elizabeth Goudge
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A.J. Muste was from Michigan and he grew up in the Dutch Reform Church there, which is a fairly strict church. He later came to New York. He was the minister of a labor temple in the - on the East Side. Then he founded, to my knowledge, the first, maybe the only, labor school; that is, Cornell has a labor department and other schools. But this was a school for - entirely for labor organizers, and he was the - the chairman.
Nat Hentoff
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Understanding is the sure and clear knowledge of some invisible thing.
Bernard of Clairvaux
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The literary artist will ... portray what he knows, and little else. Imagination is built upon knowledge, and his dreams will rest upon his facts. He is worth to the world just about what he has learned from it, and no more.
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
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After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books.
Thomas Carlyle
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Truthfully, everyone knows how to eat right. They know the difference between oatmeal and a jelly cream doughnut. They know how to walk. Everyone has this in their brain. When I started, we didn't have all this knowledge. Forty years ago, I lost my weight, but only by watching what I was eating.
Richard Simmons
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The beginning of wisdom is the knowledge of folly.
Norm MacDonald
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Knowledge of means without knowledge of ends is animal training.
Steve Martin