Knowledge Quotes

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Do you remember when you found out you wouldn't live forever? People don't talk about this, but everybody had to go through it because you're… — David Cronenberg
Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself… — Ralph Cudworth
I actually think there's an incredible amount of self-knowledge that comes with getting older. — Jamie Lee Curtis
Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination. — E E Cummings
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that… — Charles Darwin
In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed. — Charles Darwin
Eliminate numerical quotas, including Management by Objectives. — W. Edwards Deming
Science, we are repeatedly told, is the most reliable form of knowledge about the world because it is based on testable hypotheses. Religion, by contrast,… — Paul Davies
The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend. — Robertson Davies
The new industries are brainy industries and so-called knowledge workers tend to like to be near other people who are the same. Think of the… — Evan Davis
I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world. — Richard Dawkins
There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it, but you can't prove that there aren't any, so… — Richard Dawkins
Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience. — Clarence Day
The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it. — Doris Day
The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge. — Rene Descartes
I think my knowledge of music theory is rooted in jazz theory, and a lot of the writers of standards - Rodgers and Hart, and… — Zooey Deschanel
Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for… — Princess Diana
Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. We can't talk about science, because our knowledge of it is limited… — Philip K. Dick
There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge... observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of… — Denis Diderot
It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little. — Diogenes

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