Knowledge Quotes

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It was so easy to disappear, so easy to deny knowledge, so very easy in the smoke and din to mask that something dark had… — Erik Larson
If you deliver an opinion at all, it is mere stupidity not to do it with an air of conviction and well-founded knowledge. You make… — George Eliot
the highest point a man can attain is not Knowledge, or Virtue, or Goodness, or Victory, but something even greater, more heroic and more despairing:… — Nikos Kazantzakis
Storytelling awakens us to that which is real. Honest. . . . it transcends the individual. . . . Those things that are most personal… — Terry Tempest Williams
There are two kinds of knowledge, local and universal. — Ursula K. Le Guin
Indeed, at hearing the news that 'the old god is dead', we philosophers and 'free spirits' feel illuminated by a new dawn; our heart overflows… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Our life is made up of time; our days are measured in hours, our pay measured by those hours, our knowledge is measured by years.… — Cecelia Ahern
There is no power relation without the correlative constitution of a field of knowledge, nor any knowledge that does not presuppose and constitute at the… — Michel Foucault
The love of knowledge is a kind of madness. — C.S. Lewis
The pain, or the memory of pain, that here was literally sucked away by something nameless until only a void was left. The knowledge that… — Roberto Bolano
It is photography itself that creates the illusion of innocence. Its ironies of frozen narrative lend to its subjects an apparent unawareness that they will… — Ian Mcewan
There must be only three supreme values which govern a person's life: Reason, Purpose, and Self-esteem. Reason, as his only tool of knowledge--Purpose, as his… — Ayn Rand
Old Marley was as dead as a doornail. Mind! I don't mean to say that, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about… — Charles Dickens
We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that the savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much… — Mark Twain
I don't know what's the matter with people: they don't learn by understanding, they learn by some other way â€” by rote or something. Their… — Richard P. Feynman
What give all that is tragic, whatever its form, the characteristic of the sublime, is the first inkling of the knowledge that the world and… — Arthur Schopenhauer
The mere stuffing of the mind with a knowledge of facts is not education. The mind must not only possess a knowledge of the truth,… — Joseph Fielding Smith
No matter where we begin, if we pursue knowledge diligently and honestly, our quest will inevitably lead us from the things of the earth to… — Hugh Nibley
You could just as well say that an agnostic is a deeply religious person with at least a rudimentary knowledge of human fallibility. — Carl Sagan
We recognize that all knowledge is mediated through the body and that feeling is a profound source of information about our lives — Audre Lorde

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