Knowledge Quotes
8542 quotes by 3918 authors
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When people rely on surface appearances and false racial stereotypes, rather than in-depth knowledge of others at the level of the heart, mind and spirit,…
— James A. Forbes
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I'm saying that there were many great naturalists before Darwin's time who were very pious people and who knew more about nature than most of…
— Greg Graffin
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Entertainers wrongly assume that their fame, money, and influence arise from broad knowledge rather than natural talent, looks, or mastery of a narrow skill.
— Victor Davis Hanson
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A person that started in to carry a cat home by the tail was gitting knowledge that was always going to be useful to him,…
— Mark Twain
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Belief is the wound that knowledge heals.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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If you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to happen next—if you knew in advance the consequences of…
— Margaret Atwood
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We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us…
— Bertrand Russell
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For three things I thank God every day of my life: thanks that he has vouchsafed me knowledge of his works; deep thanks that he…
— Helen Keller
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The problems are solved, not by giving new information, but by arranging what we have known since long.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
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We hear and apprehend only what we already half know.
— Henry David Thoreau
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A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it. A good…
— Dylan Thomas
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Two there are who are never satisfied -- the lover of the world and the lover of knowledge.
— Unknown Author
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Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Know what you are talking about.
— Pope John Paul II
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It is most certainly a good thing that the world knows only the beautiful opus but not its origins, not the conditions of its creation;…
— Thomas Mann
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Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.
— Mark Twain
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The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me; my eye and God's eye are one eye, one…
— Meister Eckhart
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You’ve just mentioned the price that has to be paid…Pride, freedom…Knowledge. Whether at the beginning or at the end, you have to pay for everything.…
— Arturo Pérez-Reverte
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It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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Should we not be moved rather than chilled by the knowledge that he might have attained his greatness only through his frailties?
— Lou Andreas-Salomé
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