Knowledge Quotes

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When I began to write fiction that I knew would be published as science fiction, [and] part of what I brought to it was the… — William Gibson
Keats mourned that the rainbow, which as a boy had been for him a magic thing, had lost its glory because the physicists had found… — Robert Frost
Knowledge was always the power that kept the Universe in its place and the stars turning in their orbits. — Paulo Coelho
Knowledge was power, but a good librarian did not hoard the gift. She taught others how to find, where to look, how to see. — Jodi Picoult
All knowledge is spendable currency, depending on the market. — Maya Angelou
If you wish information and improvement from the knowledge of others, and yet at the same time express yourself as firmly fix'd in your present… — Benjamin Franklin
Ever since the dawn of civilization, people have not been content to see events as unconnected and inexplicable. They have craved an understanding of the… — Stephen Hawking
Humanity is part of nature, a species that evolved among other species. The more closely we identify ourselves with the rest of life, the more… — E. O. Wilson
No thief, however skillful, can rob one of knowledge, and that is why knowledge is the best and safest treasure to acquire. — L. Frank Baum
It is not the amount of knowledge that makes a brain. It is not even the distribution of knowledge. It is the interconnectedness. — James Gleick
He had long ago learned that society imposes insults that must be borne, comforted by the knowledge that in this world there comes a time… — Mario Puzo
Knowledge is power." Rather, knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge - broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false, and lofty… — Helen Keller
[W]e must come into a transformed knowing, an unknowing which comes not from ignorance but from knowledge. — Meister Eckhart
It is the absence of facts that frightens people: the gap you open, into which they pour their fears, fantasies, desires. — Hilary Mantel
And as a single leaf turns not yellow but with the silent knowledge of the whole tree. — Khalil Gibran
His hands as he worked were deft and sure, but so gentle -- he was being careful not to hurt me any more than he… — L.A. Weatherly
Strange about learning; the farther I go the more I see that I never knew even existed. A short while ago I foolishly thought I… — Daniel Keyes
I don't think whole populations are villainous, but Americans are just extraordinarily unaware of all kinds of things. If you live in the middle of… — David Attenborough
The bullet that has hit us Muslims today left the gun centuries ago when we let the clergy decide that knowledge and education were not… — Nadeem Aslam
Information is not knowledge and knowledge is not wisdom. — James Gleick

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