Knowledge Quotes

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Meditation is how to drop knowledge. Meditation means how to become ignorant again. Meditation means how to become a child again, a rose bush, a… — Rajneesh
A man speaks of what he knows, a woman of what pleases her: the one requires knowledge, the other taste. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin. — Seneca the Younger
One of our most important tasks will be to save future generations from a similar political fate and to maintain for ever watchful in them… — Adolf Hitler
Every good soldier wants to live in an organized environment, secure in the knowledge that he or she will not be threatened or harassed by… — William A. Connelly
I would rather have my ignorance than another man's knowledge, because I have so much of it. — Mark Twain
Ignorance seldom vaults into knowledge... — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
There are many who talk on from ignorance rather than from knowledge, and who find the former an inexhaustible fund of conversation. — William Hazlitt
In garden arrangement, as in all other kinds of decorative work, one has not only to acquire a knowledge of what to do, but also… — Gertrude Jekyll
The specialist is one who never makes small mistakes while moving toward the grand fallacy. — Marshall McLuhan
Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify. — Ambrose Bierce
To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge. — Confucius
Knowledge is the only elegance. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it. — Charles Caleb Colton
There's a theory, one I find persuasive, that the quest for knowledge is, at bottom, the search for the answer to the question: Where was… — Angela Carter
Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mass, the mere materials with which wisdom builds, till smoothed and squared and fitted to its place, does but encumber whom… — William Cowper
You can't know too much, but you can say too much. — Calvin Coolidge
The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be;… — George Eliot

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