Knowledge Quotes
8542 quotes by 3918 authors
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The alleged short-cut to knowledge, which is faith, is only a short-circuit destroying the mind
— Ayn Rand
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Is he a dread genetic determinist, or a dread environmental determinist? He is neither, of course, for both these species of bogeyman are as mythical…
— Daniel Dennett
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When all is said, a man's final judgment of his fellows must be based upon his knowledge of himself
— Rafael Sabatini
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He's like Super Librarian, y'know? Everyone forgets, Willow, that knowledge is the ultimate weapon.
— Joss Whedon
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You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.
— Oscar Wilde
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Each day is an adventure in discovering the meaning of life. It is each little thing that you do that day - whether it be…
— Jack Canfield
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The universe is no narrow thing and the order within it is not constrained by any latitude in its conception to repeat what exists in…
— Cormac McCarthy
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In order to survive, we cling to all we know and understand. And label it reality. But knowledge and understanding are ambiguous. That reality could…
— Masashi Kishimoto
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Suppose within each book there is another book, and within every letter on every page another volume constantly unfolding; but these volumes take no space…
— Hilary Mantel
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An accomplished woman is one who has a thorough knowledge of music, singing, drawing, dancing and the modern languages; she must be well trained in…
— Seth Grahame-Smith
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And this gray spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Some people still think knowledge is power.
— Chuck Palahniuk
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A quality education has the power to transform societies in a single generation, provide children with the protection they need from the hazards of poverty,…
— Audrey Hepburn
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Her mind traveled crooked streets and aimless goat paths, arriving sometimes at profundity, other times at the revelations of a three-year-old. Throughout this fresh, if…
— Toni Morrison
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Soul receives from soul that knowledge, therefore not by book nor from tongue. If knowledge of mysteries come after emptiness of mind, that is illumination…
— Unknown Author
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Everybody allows that to know any other science you must have first studied it, and that you can only claim to express a judgment upon…
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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There's truth even in tainted knowledge, if one reads carefully.
— N.K. Jemisin
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We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.
— Carl Sagan
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I believe that we are lost here in America, but I believe we shall be found. And this belief, which mounts now to the catharsis…
— Thomas Wolfe
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as the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep,so a knowledge of one other…
— Margaret Mead
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