Knowledge Quotes
8542 quotes by 3918 authors
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I have a great advantage over many of my colleagues inasmuch as my students bring with them to class their own personal knowledge of national,…
— Alan Dundes
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Calculus, the electrical battery, the telephone, the steam engine, the radio - all these groundbreaking innovations were hit upon by multiple inventors working in parallel…
— Steven Johnson
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With our knowledge of modern-day genetics, we realize that it was possible for God to place the potential for all people throughout history into the…
— Walter Lang
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Five minutes in an old book quickly reveals that most of what is being sold today as new insights into human behavior is merely the…
— Roy H. Williams
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Have you heard of this new thing called the internet? It's giving people new expectations. It's allowing them to become their own expert. Knowledge lies…
— Roy H. Williams
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Typography is the craft of endowing human language with a durable visual form, and thus with an independent existence. Its heartwood is calligraphy - the…
— Robert Bringhurst
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And, that's what I truly believe that we're doing when we're advancing scientific knowledge is we're someday making the world better. Not only for our…
— Duane G. Carey
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According to Jains the soul in pure form has infiniteness in terms of its knowledge and power. These faculties are obstructed for its exhibition due…
— Virchand Gandhi
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Considered now as a possession, one may define culture as the residuum of a large body of useless knowledge that has been well and truly…
— Albert J. Nock
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Knowledge is the stuff from which new ideas are made. Thus, the real key to being creative lies in what you do with your knowledge.
— Roger von Oech
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Life can give everything to whoever tries to understand and is willing to receive new knowledge.
— Pramoedya Ananta Toer
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Do not underestimate the human being, who sometimes appears so simple. Even with sight as sharp as an eagle, a mind as sharp as a…
— Pramoedya Ananta Toer
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Christian optimism is not a sugary optimism, nor is it a mere human confidence that everything will turn out all right. It is an optimism…
— Josemaria Escriva
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Our capacity for fulfillment can come only through faith and feelings. But our capacity for survival must come from reason and knowledge.
— Heinz Pagels
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Knowledge is the treasure of the mind, but discretion is the key to it, without which it is useless. The practical part of wisdom is…
— Owen Feltham
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The development of the telescope, together with increased knowledge of things, brought men to see that the earth is not what man had once thought…
— Joseph Franklin Rutherford
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Do not hate what you do not know, for the greater part of knowledge consists of what you do not know.
— Ali ibn Abi Talib
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How are men to be secured in any rights without instruction; how to be secured in the equal exercise of those rights without equality of…
— Frances Wright
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Hire and promote first on the basis of integrity; second, motivation; third, capacity; fourth, understanding; fifth, knowledge; and last and least, experience. Without integrity, motivation…
— Dee Hock
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Making good judgments when one has complete data, facts, and knowledge is not leadership - it's bookkeeping
— Dee Hock
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