Knowledge Quotes
8542 quotes by 3918 authors
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The truth and the facts aren't necessarily the same thing. Telling the truth is the object of all art; facts are what the unimaginative have…
— A. A. Gill
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The truth isn't just the facts. You can have all the facts imaginable and miss the truth, just as you can have facts missing or…
— David McCullough
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The mark of an educated man is not in his boast that he has built his mountain of facts and has stood on top of…
— Unknown Author
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If you're not sure why you're doing something, you can never do enough of it. Imagination is more important than knowledge.
— Albert Einstein
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This knowledge I pursure is the finest pleasure I have ever known. I could no sooner give it up that I could the very air…
— Unknown Author
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If the world were to end tomorrow and we could choose to save only one thing as the explanation and memorial to who we were,…
— A. A. Gill
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Demon mean knowledge in Greek, especially about the material world. Science means knowledge in Latin. A jurisdictional dispute is exposed, even if we look no…
— Carl Sagan
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It is only because the majority opinion will always be opposed by some that our knowledge and understanding progress... it is always from a minority…
— Friedrich August von Hayek
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Art is something greater and higher than our own skill or knowledge or learning. That art is something which, though produced by human hands, is…
— Vincent Van Gogh
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The artist is the man in any field, scientific or humanistic, who grasps the implications of his actions and of new knowledge in his own…
— Marshall McLuhan
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Art without knowledge is nothing!
— Unknown Author
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It is not enough to prove something, one also has to seduce or elevate people to it. That is why the man of knowledge should…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Read a lot. But read as a writer, to see how other writers are doing it. And make your knowledge of literature in English as…
— Theodora Goss
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In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others of which we could have no idea before, so that we…
— Joseph Priestley
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In philosophy, when we make use of false principles, we depart the farther from the knowledge of truth and wisdom exactly in proportion to the…
— Rene Descartes
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Knowledge of the name gives him who knows it mastery even over the being and will of the god.
— Ernst Cassirer
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This is an age of intellectual sauces, of essence, of distillation. We have conclusions without deductions, abridgments of history and abridgments of science without leading…
— Benjamin Haydon
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All the public systems – administration, justice, education and political are designed to keep people with knowledge out. Such a system promotes mediocrity.
— Rahul Gandhi
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Creativity is the crucial variable in the process of turning knowledge into value
— John Kao
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Successful knowledge transfer involves neither computers nor documents but rather interactions between people.
— Thomas H. Davenport
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