His Knowledge Quotes
63 quotes by 58 authors
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The malady of civilized man is his knowledge of death. The good artist, like the wise man, addresses himself to life and invests with his…
— Gore Vidal
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How can he remember well his ignorance - which his growth requires - who has so often to use his knowledge?
— Henry David Thoreau
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A writer who has never explored words, who has never searched, seeded, sieved, sifted through his knowledge and memory...dictiona ries, thesaurus, poems, favorite paragraphs, to…
— Rumer Godden
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All discourse of which others cannot partake is not only an irksome usurpation of the time devoted to pleasure and entertainment, but, what never fails…
— Samuel Johnson
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Far be it from us to doubt that all number is known to Him 'Whose understanding is infinite' (Ps. 147:5). The infinity of number, though…
— Saint Augustine
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Release your problem to God with a prayer that the answer will come in its own good time and place. Hold the attitude of faith…
— Wilferd Peterson
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It is our job to listen to God and let Him tell us what is going on and what we are to do about it…
— Joyce Meyer
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If he looked into her face, he would see those haunted, loving eyes. The hauntedness would irritate him - the love would move him to…
— Toni Morrison
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There is no such thing as a perfect, ideal, or 'correct' translation. A translator is always trying to extend his knowledge and improve his means…
— Peter Newmark
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The child is naturally meditative. He is a sort of samadhi; he's coming out of the womb of existence. His life river is yset absolutely…
— Rajneesh
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How very seldom do you encounter in the world a man of great abilities, acquirements, experience, who will unmask his mind, unbutton his brains, and…
— Benjamin Disraeli
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A man's ignorance sometimes is not only useful, but beautiful-while his knowledge, so called, is oftentimes worse than useless, besides being ugly.
— Henry David Thoreau
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God is intelligent; but in what manner? Man is intelligent by the act of reasoning, but the supreme intelligence lies under no necessity to reason.…
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Man is a mixture of desires that extend beyond his knowledge and often result in action conflicting with rationality.
— Charles Lindbergh
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The collector attempts always to acquire the best, and his knowledge of what is best is always widening. His is the task of judging between…
— Arthur Davison Ficke
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A true master gives all his knowledge. But only when the student is ready.
— Georges St-Pierre
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My father was a naturalist and a very spiritual person, who had a great desire to pass on his knowledge to others, so that they…
— Carlos Gracie, Jr.
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His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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In the past, I used to counter any such notions by asking myself: 'Would you really want President Hattersley?' I now find that possibility rather…
— A. N. Wilson
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As a man's real power grows and his knowledge widens, ever the way he can follow grows narrower: until at last he chooses nothing,but does…
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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