His Knowledge Quotes
63 quotes by 58 authors
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One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the…
— Chanakya
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We have no knowledge, that is, no general principles drawn from the contemplation of particular facts, but what has been built up by pleasure, and…
— William Wordsworth
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He who knows things, and in fighting puts his knowledge into practice, will win his battles. He who knows them not, nor practices them, will…
— Sun Tzu
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Only through education does one come to be dissatisfied with his own knowledge, and only through teaching others does one come to realize the uncomfortable…
— Confucius
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Bullshit is unavoidable when circumstances require someone to talk without knowing what he is talking about. Thus, the production of bullshit is stimulated whenever a…
— Harry Frankfurt
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The first thing the reasonable man must do is to be content with a very little knowledge and a very great deal of ignorance. The…
— Arthur David Ritchie
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By a generative grammar I mean simply a system of rules that in some explicit and well-defined way assigns structural descriptions to sentences. Obviously, every…
— Noam Chomsky
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I started playing ball when I was a kid. My dad was a pro ball player and he passed on his knowledge to me
— Kurt Russell
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Dr. Brainard Keyes Bullard, President of Wyandotte College, said in an address tonight that most of the worlds ills can be traced to the fact…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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No, my secrets are of the grave and must be kept. And this is how I sometimes think of myself, as a great explorer who…
— Malcolm Lowry
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A jazz musician can improvise based on his knowledge of music. He understands how things go together. For a chef, once you have that basis,…
— Charlie Trotter
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Lenny Breau is one of the true geniuses of the guitar. I suppose he is a musician's musician. His knowledge of the instrument and the…
— Chet Atkins
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No concept man forms is valid unless he integrates it without contradiction into the sum of his knowledge.
— Ayn Rand
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The empiric easily degenerates into the quack. He does not know where his knowledge begins or leaves off, and so when he gets beyond routine…
— John Dewey
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A teacher can never truly teach unless he is still learning himself. A lamp can never light another lamp unless it continues to burn its…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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Modern man receives a large part of his knowledge and general education by way of pictorial impressions, illustrations, photographs, films. Daily newspapers bring more pictures…
— Otto Neurath
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But the jiva [living being] is endowed with ego and his knowledge is limited, whereas Ishwar is without ego and is omniscient.
— Adi Shankara
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The good gardener knows with absolute certainty that if he does his part, if he gives the labour, the love, and every aid that his…
— Gertrude Jekyll
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Man's knowledge of science has clearly outstripped his knowledge of man. Our only hope of making the atom servant rather than master lies in education,…
— Harry Woodburn Chase
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By the consultation of books, whether of dead or living authors, many temptations of petulance and opposition, which occur in oral conferences, are avoided. An…
— Samuel Johnson
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