Knowledge Quotes
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The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
Francis Bacon
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The time and the quality of the time that their parents devote to them indicate to children the degree to which they are valued by their parents. . . . When children know that they are valued, when they truly feel valued in the deepest parts of themselves, then they feel valuable. This knowledge is worth more than any gold.
M. Scott Peck
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There was never an age in which useless knowledge was more important than in our own.
C. E. M. Joad
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His knowledge is not like ours, which has three tenses; present, past, and future. God's knowledge has no change or variation.
Saint Augustine
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Learn something new. Try something different. Convince yourself that you have no limits.
Brian Tracy
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Most British playwrights of my generation, as well as younger folks, apparently feel somewhat obliged to Russian literature - and not only those writing for theatres. Russian literature is part of the basic background knowledge for any writer. So there is nothing exceptional in the interest I had towards Russian literature and theatre. Frankly, I couldn't image what a culture would be like without sympathy towards Russian literature and Russia, whether we'd be talking about drama or Djagilev.
Tom Stoppard
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We need to manage holistically, embracing all of our science and traditional knowledge - all sources of knowledge. We can do that from the household to government to international relations.
Allan Savory
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There is no happiness without knowledge. But knowledge of happiness is unhappy; for knowing ourselves happy is knowing ourselves passing through happiness, and having to, immediatly at once, leave it behind. To know is to kill, in happiness as in everything. Not to know, though, is not to exist.
Fernando Pessoa
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Did the others here feel the disquiet he felt? Had they a reason for concealing that disquiet? And another question: Where was 'here'?He shut that one down sharply.Deal with one thing at a time. Grope your way gently to the abyss. Categorize your knowledge.
Brian Aldiss
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Knowledge is recognizing what you know and what you don't.
Confucius
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Henceforth ye may thieve with better knowledge whence lucre should be won, and learn that it is not well to love gain from every source. For thou wilt find that ill-gotten pelf brings more men to ruin than to weal.
Sophocles
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Know something about something. Don’t just present your wonderful self to the world. Constantly amass knowledge and offer it around.
Richard Holbrooke
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The sheer increase in the quantity of information movement favoured the visual organization of knowledge and the rise of perspective even before typography. (p. 128)
Marshall McLuhan
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And it’s completely not necessary for anyone to make mistake because everyone’s Self is Total Knowledge, Veda. Veda is Total Knowledge, and Veda is the nature of the Self, and bliss is the nature of the Self. And even in the outside world everyone wants to move in the direction of greater joy.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
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Knowledge is more than equivalent to force. The master of mechanicks laughs at strength.
Samuel Johnson
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I do not believe there is anything useful which men can know with exactitude that they cannot know by arithmetic and algebra.
Nicolas Malebranche
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Most people affirm pleasure to be the good, but the finer sort of wits say it is knowledge.
Plato
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I also maintain that clear knowledge of natural science must be acquired, in the first instance, through mastery of medicine alone.
Hippocrates
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If only I could have a dozen churchmen as wise and as well taught in all human knowledge as were Jerome and Augustine!
Charlemagne
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It is my belief that the basic knowledge that we're providing to the world will have a profound impact on the human condition and the treatments for disease and our view of our place on the biological continuum.
Craig Venter
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The planet's hope and salvation lies in the adoption of revolutionary new knowledge being revealed at the frontiers of science.
Bruce Lipton
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My practicality consists in this: in the knowledge that if you beat your head against the wall it is your head which breaks and not the wall … that is my strength, my only strength.
Antonio Gramsci
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Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.
Khalil Gibran
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I want to share knowledge about things I've learned over the years with a younger generation that is seeking the truth.
Hannah Bronfman