Knowledge Quotes
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Experience is knowledge; but knowledge, when it is sought only as a material resource, is not always a blessing. Experience is wisdom; but wisdom, with those who lack vision, is not always power. Experience is tolerance; but tolerance, when it is induced by apathy, is not in the least a virtue.
Ameen Rihani
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When it comes to the greater Middle East, McMaster brings to the table his own deep knowledge of Iraq and Afghanistan, countries where he served for many years.
Peter Bergen
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Even truthfulness is but one means to knowledge, a ladder--but not the ladder.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Without the possibility of action, all knowledge comes to one labeled 'File and forget.'
Ralph Ellison
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The only real ill-doing is the deprivation of knowledge.
Plato
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There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge - that is everywhere.
Hermann Hesse
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I believe that the quantum of our knowledge will increase considerably in the coming years and that scientists will continue to be amongst the brave voices speaking out.
Peter Garrett Midnight Oil
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We do know that a percentage of LGBT people avoid and delay screening and care because of fear about or experience of stigma, discrimination or simply lack of knowledge about LGBT people and their health amongst providers. If you avoid or delay screening and care and you have an issue that may be precancerous, by the time you get into screening and care you’re there because it has become acute and you already have a progressed disease.
Barbara Warren
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Probability fractions arise from our knowledge and from our ignorance.
Ian Hacking
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Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
Sigmund Freud
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Who would ever give up the reality of dreams for relative knowledge?
Alice James
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To argue that the gaps in knowledge which confront the seeker must be filled, not by patient inquiry, but by intuition or revelation, is simply to give ignorance a gratuitous and preposterous dignity.
H. L. Mencken
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A chess game, after all, is a fight in which all possible factors must be made use of, and in which a knowledge of the opponent's good and bad qualities is of the greatest importance.
Emanuel Lasker
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Human knowledge and skills alone cannot lead humanity to a happy and dignified life. Humanity has every reason to place the proclaimers of high moral standards and values above the discoverers of objective truth.
Albert Einstein
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Knowledge is power. If it is not applied properly to create, let there be no doubts, it will destroy.
Haile Selassie
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The coverage of Islam in the media is becoming more sophisticated, and there is more access to knowledge.
Leila Aboulela
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To read a newspaper for the first time is like coming into a film that has been on for an hour. Newspapers are like serials. To understand them you have to take knowledge to them; the knowledge that serves best is the knowledge provided by the newspaper itself.
V. S. Naipaul
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We should all be allies to ideas or people or initiatives that we don't necessarily have a real knowledge in.
Bozoma Saint John
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There is a knowledge which is desirable, though nothing come of it, as being of itself a treasure, and a sufficient remuneration of years of labor.
John Henry Newman
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During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief.
Albert Einstein
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Somehow love gives even to a dull man the knowledge of his lover's heart.
Anthony Hope
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Knowledge has a beginning but no end.
Geeta Iyengar
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There is about him something that seems to soothe and hypnotize. To the best of my knowledge, he has never encountered a charging rhinoceros, but should this contingency occur, I have no doubt that the animal, meeting his eye, would check itself in mid-stride, roll over and lie purring with its legs in the air.
P. G. Wodehouse
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Science explained people, but could not understand them. After long centuries among the bones and muscles it might be advancing to knowledge of the nerves, but this would never give understanding
E. M. Forster