Knowledge Quotes

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It's where we're nearest to our humanness. Useless knowledge for its own sake. Useful knowledge is good, too, but it's for the faint-hearted, an elaboration… — Tom Stoppard
A philosopher is a lover of wisdom, not of knowledge, which for all its great uses ultimately suffers from the crippling effect of ephemerality. All… — Shashi Tharoor
Guarding knowledge is not a good way to understand. Understanding means to throw away your knowledge. — Nhat Hanh
We have artists with no scientific knowledge and scientists with no artistic knowledge and both with no spiritual sense of gravity at all, and the… — Robert M. Pirsig
I should like a parsley sandwich. To the best of my knowledge they are not in season. — Edward Gorey
Archie became absolutely still, afraid that the rapid beating of his heart might betray his sudden knowledge, the proof of what he'd always suspected, not… — Robert Cormier
Isn't death the boundary we need? Doesn't it give a precious texture to life, a sense of definition? You have to ask yourself whether anything… — Don DeLillo
...Writings can be stolen, or changed, or used for evil purposes. But isn't the risk worth taking? The more people who share knowledge, the greater… — Lloyd Alexander
Truth has to be repeated constantly, because Error also is being preached all the time, and not just by a few, but by the multitude.… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
True knowledge never shuts the door on more knowledge, but zeal often does. — Hugh Nibley
The knowledge of the cross brings a conflict of interest between God who has become man and man who wishes to become God. — JÃ¼rgen Moltmann
When Eve ate the apple her knowledge increased. But God liked dumb women so Paradise ceased. Gwen Goodnight. Her Work. — Jennifer Crusie
Everybody knows it. Wizards are supposed to have beards. It's common knowledge. — Terry Goodkind
It all depends on the robber's knowledge of the loser's knowledge of the robber. - Daupin — Edgar Allan Poe
Patience is a godly attribute that can heal souls, unlock treasures of knowledge and understanding, and transform ordinary men and women into saints and angels.… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf
Socrates told us, "the unexamined life is not worth living." I think he's calling for curiosity, more than knowledge. In every human society at all… — Roger Ebert
A god's relationship to the world, even a world in which he was walking, was about as emotionally connected as that of a computer gamer… — Neil Gaiman
The sheer quantity of brain power that hurled itself voluntarily and quixotically into the search for new baseball knowledge was either exhilarating or depressing, depending… — Michael Lewis
We need to let our children grow up to face the world armed with knowledge, with much more knowledge than we ourselves had at their… — Daniel Dennett
Bewilderment is the true comprehension. Not to know where you are going is the true knowledge. — Martin Luther

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