Knowledge Quotes
8542 quotes by 4121 authors
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Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge: the serenity to accept the things we cannot predict, the courage to predict…
— Nate Silver
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One of the pervasive risks that we face in the information age, as I wrote in the introduction, is that even if the amount of…
— Nate Silver
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We too, through lack of knowledge and of sufficiently mature reflection, mistook the visible outward appearance of the phenomenon for the phenomenon itself.
— Leon Jouhaux
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I don’t have a problem with someone using their talents to become successful, I just don’t think the highest calling is success. Things like freedom…
— Richard Stallman
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I'm trying to change the way people approach knowledge and information in general. I think that to try to own knowledge, to try to control…
— Richard Stallman
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Each culture has some knowledge. That's why I studied with Saj Dev, an Indian flute player. That's why I studied Stockhausen's music. The pygmies' music…
— Yusef Lateef
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All the knowledge is in the connections
— David Rumelhart
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Indeed heresies are themselves instigated by philosophy
— Tertullian
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For truly barren is profane education, which is always in labor but never gives birth. For what fruit worthy of such pangs does philosophy show…
— Gregory of Nyssa
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All kinds of mysterious phenomena exist in this world, but answers to most of them have come with advances in scientific knowledge. Love is the…
— Mo Yan
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I believe education is the great equalizer. Our children are our hope for the future, so we have an obligation to provide them with the…
— Dave Heineman
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Your law may be perfect, your knowledge of human affairs may be such as to enable you to apply it with wisdom and skill, and…
— William Dunbar
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A quest for knowledge is not a war with faith; spirituality is not usually an infelicitous amalgam of superstition and philistinism; and moral relativism, taken…
— Conrad Black
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Book marketing is a skill: it takes knowledge, effort, and persistence to really be successful.
— Heather Hart
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Intuitive knowledge is an illumination of the soul, whereby it beholds in the light of God those things which it pleases Him to reveal to…
— Rene Descartes
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Henceforth the leaves of the tree of knowledge were for women, and for the healing of the nations.
— Lucy Stone
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The parochial snobbery of these people was partly responsible for their failure to convert the Indians. Probably they also preferred to take land from heathens…
— Arthur Miller
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In human life, you will find players of religion until the knowledge and proficiency in religion will be cleansed from all superstitions, and will be…
— Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
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The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
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If we define 'thought collective' as a community of persons mutually exchanging ideas or maintaining intellectual interaction, we will find by implication that it also…
— Ludwik Fleck
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