Knowledge Quotes
8542 quotes by 4121 authors
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In order to live, man must act; in order to act, he must make choices; in order to make choices, he must define a code…
— Ayn Rand
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Experiment is the mother of knowledge.
— Madeleine L'Engle
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i will follow it, though i know so well now the deep wounds i might find. for as long as i believe that i am…
— R A Salvatore
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Knowledge is the eye that must direct the foot of obedience.
— Thomas Watson
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The first step to the knowledge of the wonder and mystery of life is the recognition of the monstrous nature of the earthly human realm…
— Joseph Campbell
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It is not my prayer and humility that you cause things to go as you wish, but by acquiring a knowledge of natural laws.
— Bertrand Russell
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Some are born with knowledge, some derive it from study, and some acquire it only after a painful realization of their ignorance. But the knowledge…
— Confucius
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Writing is finally about one thing: going into a room alone and doing it. Putting words on paper that have never been there in quite…
— William Goldman
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The most spiritual men, as the strongest, find their happiness where others would find their destruction: in the labyrinth, in hardness against themselves and others,…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Thus I came up out of Egypt and stood before Sinai, and a power divine touched my spirit and gave it sight, so that I…
— Helen Keller
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He that has doctrinal knowledge and speculation only, without affection, never is engaged in the business of religion.
— Jonathan Edwards
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Doubt … is an illness that comes from knowledge and leads to madness.
— Gustave Flaubert
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Your children will smash your understanding, knowledge and reality. You will be better off. Then they will leave. You'll miss them forever.
— Tibor Kalman
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The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is. Self-knowledge has no end - you don't come to an achievement, you don't come to…
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Knowledge is merely brilliance in organization of ideas and not wisdom. The truly wise person goes beyond knowledge.
— Confucius
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Knowledge is power, community is strength and positive attitude is everything
— Lance Armstrong
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To define knowledge as merely empirical is to limit one's ability to know; it enfeebles one's ability to feel and think.
— Wendell Berry
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He stood staring into the wood for a minute, then said: "What is it about the English countryside — why is the beauty so much…
— Dodie Smith
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I said I *liked* being half-educated; you were so much more *surprised* at everything when you were ignorant.
— Gerald Durrell
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...where were answers to the truly deep questions? Religion promised those, though always in vague terms, while retreating from one line in the sand to…
— David Brin
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