Knowledge Quotes
8542 quotes by 4159 authors
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Admittedly, there was a lot she still didn't know about him, but she did know this: He completed her in a way that she'd never…
— Nicholas Sparks
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Faith in the biblical sense is substantive, based on the knowledge that the One in whom that faith is placed has proven that He is…
— Ravi Zacharias
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Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.
— Confucius
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But all the while, there was one thing we most needed even from the start, and certainly will need from here on out into the…
— Robert Farrar Capon
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I want to disabuse people of the idea that knowledge is power. Knowing how to get to Detroit is not the same thing as having…
— Andrew Vachss
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I think that knowledge enslaves us, that at the base of all knowledge there is a servility, the acceptation of a way of life wherein…
— Georges Bataille
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Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery
— Miles Davis
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The knowledge of death seemed present in both sisters-it was something about the way they carried themselves, something that had broken too son and had…
— Jhumpa Lahiri
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an intoxication with forbidden knowledge in which the natural things become unimportant.
— Anne Rice
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Symbols and emblems were everywhere. Buildings and pictures were designed to be read like books. Everything stood for something else; if you had the right…
— Philip Pullman
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I conceive a knowledge of books is the basis upon which other knowledge is to be built.
— George Washington
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If I have gained anything over these months, it is the knowledge there is no starting over- only living with the mistakes you've made.
— Jodi Picoult
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Doctor Who: You want weapons? We're in a library. Books are the best weapon in the world. This room's the greatest arsenal we could have.…
— Russell T Davies
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I am sorry I ran from you. I am still running, running from that knowledge, that eye, that love from which there is no refuge.…
— Annie Dillard
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Knowledge can be like the skin on the surface of the water in a pond, or it can go all the way down to the…
— Siobhan Dowd
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It's hard to answer a question you haven't been asked. It's hard to show you tried unless you end up succeeding.
— David Levithan
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Worry is a way to pretend that you have knowledge or control over what you don't--and it surprises me, even in myself, how much we…
— Rebecca Solnit
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Man can only be certain about the present moment. But is that quite true either? Can he really know the present? Is he in a…
— Milan Kundera
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Close beside my knowledge lies my black ignorance.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Poets are masters of us ordinary men, in knowledge of the mind, because they drink at streams which we have not yet made accessible to…
— Sigmund Freud
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