Knowledge Quotes

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It is only a novel... or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most… — Jane Austen
Cookery meansâ€¦English thoroughness, French art, and Arabian hospitality; it means the knowledge of all fruits and herbs and balms and spices; it means carefulness, inventiveness,… — John Ruskin
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. — Alvin Toffler
When you know better you do better. — Maya Angelou
If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed. — Mark Twain
Knowledge is not for knowing: knowledge is for cutting. — Michel Foucault
Re-vision â€“ the act of looking back, of seeing with fresh eyes, of entering an old text from a new critical direction â€“ is for… — Adrienne Rich
The ending of sorrow is the beginning of wisdom. Knowledge is always within the shadow of ignorance. Meditation is freedom from thought and a movement… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
But doctors talk about cells as if they had such unlimited importance all by themselves. As if they didn't really belong to the person that… — J D Salinger
We must be born with an intuition of mortality. Before we know the word for it. Before we know that there are words. Out we… — Tom Stoppard
Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. Music… — Frank Zappa
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet,… — Robert A. Heinlein
An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral. And the advance of man's knowledge is a greater miracle than all the sticks turned to… — Jerome Lawrence
Penetrating so many secrets, we cease to believe in the unknowable. But there it sits nevertheless, calmly licking its chops — H. L. Mencken
If you lose touch with nature you lose touch with humanity. If there's no relationship with nature then you become a killer; then you kill… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Thereâ€™s nothing as significant as a human face. Nor as eloquent. We can never really know another person, except by our first glance at him.… — Ayn Rand
True knowledge is not attained by thinking. It is what you are; it is what you become. — Sri Aurobindo
A circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent. — Cormac McCarthy
Because we have for millenia made moral, aesthetic, religious demands on the world, looked upon it with blind desire, passion or fear, and abandoned ourselves… — Friedrich Nietzsche

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