Knowledge Quotes

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History was not a matter of missing minutes on the tape. I did not stand helpless before it. I hewed to the texture of collected… — Don DeLillo
Confidence is ignorance. If you're feeling cocky, it's because there's something you don't know. — Eoin Colfer
Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. Ideas must be distinct before reason can act upon them; and no man… — Thomas Jefferson
Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found. — Alexander Pope
And I tell you, if you have the desire for knowledge and the power to give it physical expression, go out and explore. — Apsley Cherry-Garrard
We look for medicine to be an orderly field of knowledge and procedure. But it is not. It is an imperfect science, an enterprise of… — Atul Gawande
Few if any seemed to have grasped the Principle of Reality; new knowledge leads always to yet more awesome mysteries. Greater physiological knowledge of the… — Stephen King
This pleased Onyango, for to him knowledge was the source of all the white man's power, and he wanted to make sure that his son… — Barack Obama
I wondered if the fire had been out to get me. I wondered if all fire was related, like Dad said all humans were related,… — Jeannette Walls
The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief. — Sigmund Freud
If increased meta-knowledge is not counter-balanced by a corresponding growth in consciousness then the likelihood of psycho-spiritual dysfunction is great. — Eckhart Tolle
Man is diminished if he lives without knowledge of his past; without hope of a future he becomes a beast. — P.D. James
The key to good decision making is not knowledge. It is understanding. We are swimming in the former. We are desperately lacking in the latter. — Malcolm Gladwell
Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man. — Benjamin Franklin
Lord, grant that my work increase knowledge and help other men. Failing that, Lord, grant that it will not lead to manâ€™s destruction. Failing that,… — Walker Percy
Faith is indeed intellectual; it involves an apprehension of certain things as facts; and vain is the modern effort to divorce faith from knowledge. But… — John Gresham Machen
How could you possibly know that no religion can see the whole truth unless you yourself have the superior, comprehensive knowledge of spiritual reality you… — Timothy Keller
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than… — Albert Einstein
You must not know too much or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and watercraft; a certain free-margin , or… — Walt Whitman
What I'm primarily saying,' he says, 'is that this is a time for knowledge assimilation, not backstabbing. We learned a lesson, you and I. We… — George Saunders

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