Knowledge Quotes

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Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge. — Horace Mann
There is no such thing as originality. It has all been said before, suffered before. If a person knows that, is it any wonder love… — Clive Barker
I am at a loss to understand why people hold Miss Austen's novels at so high a rate, which seem to me vulgar in tone,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
His mind was crowded with memories; memories of the knowledge that had come to them when they closed in on the struggling pig, knowledge that… — William Golding
When you find out who you are, you will no longer be innocent. That will be sad for others to see. All that knowledge will… — Lorrie Moore
Things have their roots and branches. Affairs have their beginnings and their ends. To know what is first and what is last will lead one… — Confucius
Problems may be solved in the study which have baffled all those who have sought a solution by the aid of their senses. To carry… — Arthur Conan Doyle
Knowledge is not wisdom: cleverness is not, not without awareness of our death, not without recalling just how brief our flare is. He who overreaches… — Euripides
I love hearing my relations abused. It is the only thing that makes me put up with them at all. Relations are simply a tedious… — Oscar Wilde
For where is the man that has incontestable evidence of the truth of all that he holds, or of the falsehood of all he condemns;… — John Locke
Knowledge can be acquired by a suitable and complete study, no matter what the starting point is. Only one must know how to 'learn.' What… — G I Gurdjieff
I call that man awake who, with conscious knowledge and understanding, can perceive the deep unreasoning powers in his soul, his whole innermost strength, desire… — Hermann Hesse
Was there ever a more horrible blasphemy than the statement that all the knowledge of God is confined to this or that book? How dare… — Swami Vivekananda
The function of the university is not simply to teach breadwinning, or to furnish teachers for the public schools, or to be a centre of… — W. E. B. Du Bois
Practice is funny that way. For days and days, you make out only the fragments of what to do. And then one day you've got… — Atul Gawande
When you showed someone how you felt, it was fresh and honest. When you told someone how you felt, there might be nothing behind the… — Jodi Picoult
Aimless extension of knowledge, however, which is what I think you really mean by the term curiosity, is merely inefficiency. I am designed to avoid… — Isaac Asimov
the knowledge of impermanence that haunts our days is their very fragrance. — Rainer Maria Rilke
Love follows knowledge. — Thomas Aquinas
Belief in the traditional sense, or certitude, or dogma, amounts to the grandiose delusion, "My current model" -- or grid, or map, or reality-tunnel --… — Robert Anton Wilson

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