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title: "7 Imparting Knowledge Quotes by 6 authors"
description: "Browse 7 Imparting Knowledge quotes by 6 authors. Discover the best Imparting Knowledge sayings and thoughts."
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> [Our goal is not so much the imparting of knowledge as the unveiling and developing of spiritual energy.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maria-montessori/our-goal-is-not-so-much-the-imparting-of-knowledge-as-the-unveiling/)

[Maria Montessori](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maria-montessori/)

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> [Imparting knowledge is only lighting other men's candles at our lamp without depriving ourselves of any flame.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-porter/imparting-knowledge-is-only-lighting-other-men-s-candles-at-our-lamp/)

[Jane Porter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-porter/)

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> [It is useless to deny that, unless one has a genius for imparting knowledge, teaching is a drudgery.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-deland/it-is-useless-to-deny-that-unless-one-has-a-genius-for-imparting/)

[Margaret Deland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-deland/)

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> [Education should no longer be most imparting of knowledge, but must take a new path, seeking the release of human potentialities.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maria-montessori/education-should-no-longer-be-most-imparting-of-knowledge-but-must/)

[Maria Montessori](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maria-montessori/)

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> [The importance of language in gaining knowledge is doubtless the chief cause of the common notion that knowledge may be passed directly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-dewey/the-importance-of-language-in-gaining-knowledge-is-doubtless-the/)

[John Dewey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-dewey/)

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> [Teaching is more than imparting knowledge, it is inspiring change.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-arthur-ward/teaching-is-more-than-imparting-knowledge-it-is-inspiring-change/)

[William Arthur Ward](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-arthur-ward/)

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> [Teaching is not the mere imparting of knowledge but the cultivation of an inquiring mind.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jiddu-krishnamurti/teaching-is-not-the-mere-imparting-of-knowledge-but-the-cultivation/)

[Jiddu Krishnamurti](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jiddu-krishnamurti/)

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