Knowledge Quotes
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Let me put it this way: There is nothing in Islam that is fundamentally against the quest for knowledge.
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English girls' schools today providing the higher education are, so far as my knowledge goes, worthily representative of that astonishing rise in the intellectual standards of women which has taken place in the last half-century.
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Be ignorance thy choice, where knowledge leads to woe.
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Philosophizing means, then, to ascend from public dogma to essentially private knowledge.
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When women age into their power, no wind can upset them, no hand turn aside their knowledge, no fact can deflect their point of view.
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It is not enough to prove something, one has also to seduce or elevate people to it. That is why the man of knowledge should learn how to speak his wisdom: and often in such a way that it sounds like folly!
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At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes abridged.
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Bewilderment is the true comprehension. Not to know where you are going is the true knowledge.
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It is a matter of common knowledge among mystics that the evolutionary career of mankind is indissolubly bound up with the divine hierarchies, who rule the planets and the signs of the Zodiac, and that the passage of the Sun and the planets through the twelve signs of the Zodiac, marks man's progress in time and in space.
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Do you remember how electrical currents and 'unseen waves' were laughed at? The knowledge about man is still in its infancy.
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Boole's apparent goal was to unfold the secret laws and relations of those high faculties of thought by which all beyond the merely perceptive knowledge of the world and of ourselves is attained or matured, is a object which does not stand in need of commendation to a rational mind.
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More students have a better knowledge of pop culture than of the Constitution.
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He that hath knowledge spareth his words.
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Knowledge resides in the user and not in the collection. It is how the user reacts to a collection of information that matters.
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Management Providence , knowledge, and intention are not the same when ascribed to us and when ascribed to God.
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Somehow love gives even to a dull man the knowledge of his lover's heart.
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Knowledge and progress are the fruits of action.
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Knowledge of other people's beliefs and ways of thinking must be used to build bridges, not to create conflicts.
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It is not the accumulation of extraneous knowledge, but the realization of the self within, that constitutes true progress.
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The first principle of cosmology must be 'There is nothing outside the universe'. This is not to exclude religion or mysticism... But if it is knowledge that we desire... we need to seek answers to questions about the things we can see... only things that exist in the universe.
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Not alone to know, but to act according to thy knowledge, is thy destination,--proclaims the voice of my inmost soul. Not for indolent contemplation and study of thyself, nor for brooding over emotions of piety,--no, for action was existence given thee; thy actions, and thy actions alone, determine thy worth.
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I want to believe that bin Laden and al-Qaeda were responsible for the 9/11 attacks, but now I have doubts. If they were responsible, I am beginning to think it was not without some knowledge of those impending attacks on our side.
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Common knowledge, but important nonetheless
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It turns out that in order to think well, knowledge helps.
