Knowledge Quotes

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In spite of difference of soil and climate, of language and manners, of laws and customs-in spite of things silently gone out of mind, and… — William Wordsworth
He [the "specialist"] is one who, out of all that has to be known in order to be a man of judgment, is only acquainted… — Jose Ortega y Gasset
The assurance that we have no means of answering [final] questions is no valid excuse for callousness towards them. The more deeply should we feel,… — Jose Ortega y Gasset
Philosophy is a slow process of logic and logical discourse: A bringing B bringing C and so forth. In mysticism you can jump from A… — Elie Wiesel
Psychological knowledge has made us dull. — Jiddu Krishnamurti
How is the mind which functions on knowledge how is the brain which is recording all the time to end, to see the importance of… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
What is wonderful about a university like LSE is that you not only receive teaching of very high quality, you also learn where to find… — Pierre Trudeau
I believe the moment of birth Is when we have knowledge of death I believe the season of birth Is the season of sacrifice. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
No word in our language not even "Socialism" has been employed more loosely than " Mysticism ." ... The history of the word begins in… — William Ralph Inge
We have overwhelming evidence that available information plus analysis does not lead to knowledge . The management science team can properly analyse a situation and… — C. West Churchman
Don't go to college, unless to get knowledge. — Satchel Paige
Doubt is the vestibule which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom; therefore, when we are in doubt and puzzle… — Charles Caleb Colton
Where thou perceivest knowledge, bend the ear of attention and respect; But yield not further to the teaching, than as thy mind is warranted by… — Charles Caleb Colton
Discretion has been termed the better part of valour, and it is more certain, that diffidence is the better part of knowledge. — Charles Caleb Colton
I should say that, in addition to my tree - love (it was originally called The Tree), it arose from my own pre-occupation with the… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Women are like that they don't acquire knowledge of people we are for that they are just born with a practical fertility of suspicion that… — William Faulkner
People try to reconcile you to a disappointment in love by asking why you should cherish a passion for an object that has proved itself… — William Hazlitt
Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge. — William Hazlitt
It has been the resolution of mankind in all ages of the world. No people, no age, ever threw away the fruits of past wisdom,… — William Hazlitt
Whatever is placed beyond the reach of sense and knowledge, whatever is imperfectly discerned, the fancy pieces out at its leisure; and all but the… — William Hazlitt

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