Knowledge Quotes

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In all of us there is a hunger, marrow-deep, to know our heritage- to know who we are and where we have come from. Without… — Alex Haley
Herein lies the tragedy of the age: Not that men are poor, - all men know something of poverty. Not that men are wicked, -… — W. E. B. Du Bois
One has no right to love or hate anything if one has not acquired a thorough knowledge of its nature. Great love springs from great… — Leonardo da Vinci
Sometimes it takes more courage not to let yourself see. Sometimes knowledge is damaging - not enlightenment but enleadenment. — Marisha Pessl
A primary object should be the education of our youth in the science of government. In a republic, what species of knowledge can be equally… — George Washington
Doesn't our knowledge of death make life more precious?' What good is a preciousness based on fear and anxiety? It's an anxious quivering thing — Don DeLillo
Our knowledge of circumstances has increased, but our uncertainty, instead of having diminished, has only increased. The reason of this is, that we do not… — Carl von Clausewitz
Watch out for intellect, because it knows so much it knows nothing and leaves you hanging upside down, mouthing knowledge as your heart falls out… — Anne Sexton
We are going to have to gather up the fragments of knowledge and responsibilities that have been turned over to governments, corporations, and specialists, and… — Wendell Berry
This is our dilemma--either to taste and not to know or to know and not to taste--or, more strictly, to lack one kind of knowledge… — C.S. Lewis
All knowledge, the totality of all questions and answers, is contained in the dog. — Franz Kafka
I do not mean to object to a thorough knowledge of the famous works we read. I object only to the interminable comments and bewildering… — Helen Keller
For, after all, every one who wishes to gain true knowledge must climb the Hill Difficulty alone, and since there is no royal road to… — Helen Keller
How sweet is the assurance, how comforting is the peace that come from the knowledge that if we marry right and live right, our relationship… — Gordon B. Hinckley
I remember it was with extreme difficulty that I could bring my master to understand the meaning of the word opinion, or how a point… — Jonathan Swift
Circumstances do not push or pull. They are daily lessons to be studied and gleaned for new knowledge and wisdom. Knowledge and wisdom that is… — Andy Andrews
Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge. — John Wesley
The endless cycle of idea and action, Endless invention, endless experiment, Brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness; Knowledge of speech, but not of… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
God bless you, my beloved sisters, who stand as the queens in your home, that you may be happy with that happiness which comes of… — Gordon B. Hinckley
I know more than I can express in words, and the little I can express would not have been expressed, had I not known more. — Vladimir Nabokov

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