Knowledge Quotes
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There is, however, another purpose to which academies contribute. When they consist of a limited number of persons, eminent for their knowledge, it becomes an object of ambition to be admitted on their list.
Charles Babbage
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Our age gives the more receptive among the young such a sense of social responsibility that one is inclined at times to fear that social interests may encroach upon individual development, that a knowledge of all the ills affecting the community may act as too powerful a damper on the joys of youth.
Ellen Key
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We don't know all the answers. If we knew all the answers we'd be bored, wouldn't we? We keep looking, searching, trying to get more knowledge.
Jack LaLanne
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There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions as the knowledge that there is a meaning in one's life.
Viktor E. Frankl
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Making $30,000 on my first business deal was exciting, but not as exciting as the sudden knowledge that I did not have to work for anyone again.
E. Joseph Cossman
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Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.
Jacob Bronowski
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A quality education has the power to transform societies in a single generation, provide children with the protection they need from the hazards of poverty, labor exploitation and disease, and given them the knowledge, skills, and confidence to reach their full potential.
Audrey Hepburn
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Knowledge without practice is useless. Practice without knowledge is dangerous.
Confucius
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The knowledge that makes us cherish innocence makes innocence unattainable.
Irving Howe
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Only the knowledge that comes from inside is the real Knowledge.
Socrates
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Just as we might take Darwin as an example of the normal extraverted thinking type, the normal introverted thinking type could be represented by Kant. The one speaks with facts, the other relies on the subjective factor. Darwin ranges over the wide field of objective reality, Kant restricts himself to a critique of knowledge.
Carl Jung
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I have a very intimate knowledge of the world of the mentally ill and of life inside of, especially, public hospitals and the way people are treated in there and the way that they try to survive in there.
Victor LaValle
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When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.
Albert Einstein
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...and knowledge is one of the finest attributes of man - though often it is most loudly voiced by those who strive for it the least.
Albert Einstein
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The wise man knows of all things, as far as possible, although he has no knowledge of each of them in detail.
Aristotle
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If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are conditions for development.
Kofi Annan
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One’s ears are weary of the voice of the art teacher who sits like the parrot on his perch, learning the jargon of the studios, making but poor copy and calling it criticism. We have had enough of their omniscience, their parade of technical knowledge, and their predilection for the wrong end of the stick.
Aubrey Beardsley
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Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
Confucius
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Knowledge and ego are directly related. the less knowledge, the greater the ego.
Albert Einstein
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There are no incurable diseases — only the lack of will. There are no worthless herbs — only the lack of knowledge.
Avicenna
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The thing about the Islamic situation is we don't have a church. We don't have an ordained priesthood, which makes it a little complicated. But we do have a tradition of scholarship, and rules of scholarship. It's very much like any field of knowledge.
Feisal Abdul Rauf
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Without knowledge action is useless and knowledge without action is futile.
Abu Bakr
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The intelligence consists not only in the knowledge but also in the skill to apply the knowledge into practice.
Aristotle