Knowledge Quotes
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No, life has not disappointed me. On the contrary, I find it truer, more desirable and mysterious every year -- ever since the day when the great liberator came to me: the idea that life could be an experiment of the seeker for knowledge -- and not a duty, not a calamity, not trickery.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Words have a magical power. They can bring either the greatest happiness or deepest despair; they can transfer knowledge from teacher to student; words enable the orator to sway his audience and dictate its decisions. Words are capable of arousing the strongest emotions and prompting all men's actions.
Sigmund Freud
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All along we find that social life - religion, politics, art - reflects the stages reached in the development of the knowledge of self; it shows the social uses made of this knowledge.
James Mark Baldwin
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Knowledge is never too dear.
Francis Walsingham
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'I agree with you. It is here a family affair. It is a poison that works in the blood - it is intimate - it is deep-seated. There is here, I think, hate and knowledge…'
Agatha Christie
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Knowledge is power. Unfortunate dupes of this saying will keep on creating, ambitiously, till they have stunned their native initiative and made their thoughts weak.
Clarence Day
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And I may add that it taught me something about the limitations of the small . . . orthodox scientist who won't recognize as knowledge, or as reality, any information that doesn't fit into the already existent science.
Abraham Maslow
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Niggas with knowledge are more dangerous than niggas with guns. They make the guns easy to get and try to keep niggas dumb
Talib Kweli
Black Star
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To cover up actual lack of knowledge, the tale develops an explanation which amounts to divine intervention. It is an easy and, to the primitive mind, a plausible and satisfactory way to explain something of which nothing at all is known.
Clifford D. Simak
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When the great Tao is forgotten, goodness and piety appear. When the body's intelligence declines, cleverness and knowledge step forth. When there is no peace in the family, filial piety begins. When the country falls into chaos, patriotism is born.
Lao Tzu
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People keep repeating that the main things are love and compassion. Certainly love and compassion are the main things, but it takes knowledge to make love and compassion fruitful. ... It takes just a second to say 'love'. But to acquire knowledge for the well-being and blessing of humanity requires an eternity.
H. P. Blavatsky
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I had felt the shot coming; I hadn't realized the bow was loaded with this very quarrel, perfectly calibrated to hit him hardest. What part of me had been studying him, stockpiling knowledge as ammunition?
Rachel Hartman
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When humans team up with computers to play chess, the humans who do best are not necessarily the strongest players. They're the ones who are modest and who know when to listen to the computer. Often, what the human adds is knowledge of when the computer needs to look more deeply.
Tyler Cowen
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All types of knowledge, ultimately mean self knowledge.
Bruce Lee
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The key to ongoing effectiveness [in evangelism] is a perpetual freshness in your growing knowledge of Him.
R. Kent Hughes
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My observation on most people in national governments is that they have very little interest in and very little knowledge of the multinational institutions.
James Wolfensohn
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'Thenceforth they thought that, rationally concluded, doubt could become an instrument of knowledge.'
Marc Bloch
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We must learn to measure ourselves, not by our knowledge about God, not by our gifts and responsibilities in the church, but by how we pray and what goes on in our hearts. Many of us, I suspect, have no idea how impoverished we are at this level. Let us ask the Lord to show us.
J. I. Packer
