Knowledge Quotes
8542 quotes by 4121 authors
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NECTAR, n. A drink served at banquets of the Olympian deities. The secret of its preparation is lost, but the modern Kentuckians believe that they…
— Ambrose Bierce
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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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He is wise who knows the sources of knowledge - where it is written and where it is to be found.
— Archibald Alexander Hodge
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A college education is not a quantitative body of memorized knowledge salted away in a card file. It is a taste for knowledge, a taste…
— Alfred Whitney Griswold
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Let your desire for truth transcend all minor considerations. Ignorance is invariably confident. The man of knowledge learns to realize his own needs. Be honest…
— Grenville Kleiser
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Do we, as humans, having an ability to reason and to communicate abstract ideas verbally and in writing, and to form ethical and moral judgments…
— Peter Cheeke
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Why does one want to walk wings? Why force one's body from a plane to make a parachute jump? Why should man want to fly…
— Charles Lindbergh
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Most universities are no longer temples of knowledge, but of power, and true moderns worship there.
— Dean Koontz
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Faith is not knowledge of what the mystery of the universe is, but the conviction that there is a mystery, and that it is greater…
— David Wolpe
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Significant inventions are not mere accidents. The erroneous view [that they are] is widely held, and it is one that the scientific and technical community,…
— Paul Flory
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With discipline, belief, and the right knowledge, we become the best we can be.
— Georges St-Pierre
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A guy that has more knowledge has the advantage.
— Georges St-Pierre
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It’s like life. The more knowledge you get, the more questions you ask. The smarter you get, the more you realize that everything can be…
— Georges St-Pierre
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Money is what fueled the industrial society. But in the informational society, the fuel, the power, is knowledge. One has now come to see a…
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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Is there something in trade that desiccates and flattens out, that turns men into dried leaves at the age of forty? Certainly there is. It…
— John Jay Chapman
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In the particular presence of memorable language we can find a reminder of our ability to know and retain knowledge itself: the brightness wherein all…
— Robert Pinsky
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Some people give theirselves a certain number of white weeks once in a year, when they do not drink a single drop of alcohol. It…
— Henning Mankell
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It is a matter of great satisfaction to me to hope that my children will be in circumstances to receive a good education. Mine was…
— Sam Houston
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Pamela Smith and Benjamin Schmidt have gathered together a wide-ranging and provocative set of original essays that successfully demonstrate how contingent the process of making…
— Deborah Harkness
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This [Scientology] is useful knowledge. With it the blind again see, the lame walk, the ill recover, the insane become sane and the sane become…
— L. Ron Hubbard
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