Knowledge Quotes

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Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave. — Frederick Douglass
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents... some day the piecing… — H P Lovecraft
I was not ugly. I might never be anything for men to lose their heads about, but I need never again be ugly. This knowledge… — Elsie de Wolfe
Man's mind is his basic tool of survival. Life is given to him, survival is not. His body is given to him, its sustenance is… — Ayn Rand
You can swim all day in the Sea of Knowledge and not get wet. — Norton Juster
The Essence of Knowledge is, having it, to use it. — Confucius
Once innocence--an all too-brief state of being, if such a one exists--encounters experience, it is transformed. If that transformation is understood, it becomes knowledge. And… — Ana Castillo
For if we're destroyed, the knowledge is dead...We're nothing more than dust jackets for books...so many pages to a person... — Ray Bradbury
That knowledge humbles me, melts my bones, closes my ears, and makes my teeth rock loosely in their gums. And it also liberates me. I… — Maya Angelou
I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it is much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers… — Richard P. Feynman
Wikipedia is the first place I go when I'm looking for knowledge... or when I want to create some. — Stephen Colbert
Expect to feel pleasure. Knowledge is sexy. Expect to feel pain. Knowledge is torture. — Jeff Noon
We live in an age of reproduction. Most of what makes up our personal picture of the world we have never seen with our own… — Max Frisch
As our circle of knowledge expands, so does the circumference of darkness surrounding it. — Albert Einstein
Each path to knowledge involves different rules and these rules are not interchangeable. — Barack Obama
What a lost person needs is a map of the territory, with his own position marked on it so he can see where he is… — Margaret Atwood
Scientific knowledge is a body of statements of varying degrees of certainty -- some most unsure, some nearly sure, none absolutely certain. — Richard P. Feynman
Concerning the Gods, there are those who deny the very existence of the Godhead; others say that it exists, but neither bestirs nor concerns itself… — Epictetus
The acquisition of knowledge is always of use to the intellect, because it may thus drive out useless things and retain the good. For nothing… — Leonardo da Vinci
No teacher has ever failed from ignorance. That is empiric professional knowledge. Teachers fail because they cannot `handle the class.' Real education must ultimately be… — Ezra Pound

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