Knowledge Quotes

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Books without the knowledge of life are useless. — Samuel Johnson
One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer. — Lord Byron
The seat of perfect contentment is in the head; for every individual is thoroughly satisfied with his own proportion of brains. — Charles Caleb Colton
A man may do very well with a very little knowledge, and scarce be found out in mixed company; everybody is so much more ready… — Charles Lamb
The chief value of the new fact is to enhance the great and constant fact of life. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
To understand matters rightly we should understand their details; and as that knowledge is almost infinite, our knowledge is always superficial and imperfect. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
In almost all sciences the fundamental knowledge is either found in earliest times or is still being sought. — Friedrich Nietzsche
For the purpose of knowledge we must know how to make use of the inward current which draws us towards a thing, and also of… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Conversation with a friend will only bear good fruit of knowledge when both think only of the matter under consideration and forget that they are… — Friedrich Nietzsche
No honey is sweeter than that of knowledge. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Cultivated men and women who do not skim the cream of life, and are attached to the duties, yet escape the harsher blows, make acute… — George Meredith
Things and men have always a certain sense, a certain side by which they must be got hold of if one wants to obtain a… — Joseph Conrad
The great man, that is, the man most imbued with the spirit of the time, is the impressionable man. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
When all beliefs are challenged together, the just and necessary ones have a chance to step forward and re-establish themselves alone. — George Santayana
The fruit of the tree of knowledge always drives man from some paradise or other; and even the paradise of fools is not an unpleasant… — William Ralph Inge
Every step by which men add to their knowledge and skills is a step also by which they can control other men. — Max Lerner
Religion has treated knowledge sometimes as an enemy, sometimes as a hostage; often as a captive and more often as a child; but knowledge has… — Charles Caleb Colton
Pocket all your knowledge with your watch, and never pull it out in company unless desired. — Lord Chesterfield
... you could claim that anything's real if the only basis for believing in it is that nobody's proved it doesn't exist! — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
The knowledge of courtesy and good manners is a very necessary study. It is like grace and beauty, that which begets liking and an inclination… — Michel de Montaigne

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