Knowledge Quotes

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Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize. — Christopher Lasch
Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little. — D. H. Lawrence
Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken. — D. H. Lawrence
I don't have incredible knowledge about films or of filmmaking history; I'm not that kind of person. — Ang Lee
Knowledge will give you power, but character respect. — Bruce Lee
What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others. — Georg C. Lichtenberg
The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism. — Georg C. Lichtenberg
Most people's historical perspective begins with the day of their birth. — Rush Limbaugh
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt. — Abraham Lincoln
Life is a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch… — Charles Lindbergh
There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride, they… — Walter Lippmann
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. — John Locke
No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience. — John Locke
The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others. — John Locke
The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it. — John Locke
Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing. — John Locke
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will. — Vince Lombardi
A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The… — Konrad Lorenz

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