Knowledge Quotes
8542 Knowledge quotes by 3918 unique authors
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To deal with things knowledge of things is needed. To deal with people, you need insight, sympathy. To deal with yourself, you need nothing. Be…
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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Do not repeat after me words that you do not understand. Do not merely put on a mask of my ideas, for it will be…
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Acquiring knowledge is a form of imitation.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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The secret of realizing the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment of existence is: to live dangerously! Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius!…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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It’s not information overload. It’s filter failure.
— Clay Shirky
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I have undertaken, you see, to write not only my life, but my opinions also; hoping and expecting that your knowledge of my character, and…
— Laurence Sterne
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You know nothing... And suppose the vampire who made you knew nothing, and the vampire who made that vampire knew nothing, and the vampire before…
— Anne Rice
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A working knowledge of the devil can be very well had from resisting him.
— Flannery O'Connor
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I lived in a world that at any moment could erupt into fire. It was the sort of knowledge that kept you on your toes.
— Jeannette Walls
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I'd been blindsided with the most painful knowledge: the first man to ever say he loved me had never loved me at all. His passion…
— Charlaine Harris
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And all knowledge is vain save when there is work, and all work is empty save when there is love; and when you work with…
— Khalil Gibran
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Everything which might cause doubt about the wisdom of the government or create discontent will be kept from the people. The basis of unfavorable comparisons…
— Friedrich August von Hayek
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Forgiveness is first for you, the forgiver...to release you from something that will eat you alive; that will destroy your joy and your ability to…
— William P. Young
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But it is the knowledge of how contingent my unease is, how dependent on a baby that wails beneath my window one day and does…
— J M Coetzee
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The plain fact is that she never really liked me, and never wanted me. I had been a mistake; and that, to some extent, is…
— Jonathan Coe
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. . . Jess believed, that she thought he was the best. It was not the kind of best that counted either at school or…
— Katherine Paterson
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Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. In their gray visions they obtain glimpses…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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Nicky looked down at me with a knowledge on his face that he was holding the monster in his arms. I'd have comforted him, but…
— Laurell K. Hamilton
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I smile to myself knowing that they may be dead.
— Emilie Autumn
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It didn't occur to him that she might have chosen to remain this way. That where he saw reserve and loneliness, Cassandra saw self-preservation and…
— Kate Morton
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