Knowledge Quotes
8542 quotes by 3918 authors
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And his knowledge remained woefully incomplete, Harry! That which Voldemort does not value, he takes no trouble to comprehend. Of house-elves and children's tales, of…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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The difference between a path and a road is not only the obvious one. A path is little more than a habit that comes with…
— Wendell Berry
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The man of knowledge in our time is bowed down under a burden he never imagined he would ever have: the overproduction of truth that…
— Ernest Becker
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Justice implies knowledge of the right and proper place for a thing or a being to be; of right as against wrong; of the mean…
— Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas
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To know how to put what knowledge in which place is wisdom (hikmah). Otherwise, knowledge without order and seeking it without discipline does lead to…
— Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas
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It is like the thirsty traveller who at first sincerely sought the water of knowledge, but who later, having found it plain perhaps, proceeded to…
— Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas
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I should have liked to be asked to say what I knew. They always tried to ask what I did not know. When I would…
— Winston Churchill
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Fear can't hurt you," she said. "When it washes over you, give it no power. It's a snake with no venom. Remember that. That knowledge…
— Maureen Johnson
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We believe human begins have existed for only a small fraction of cosmic history, because human race has been improving so rapidly in knowledge and…
— Stephen Hawking
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There’s faith that knows itself as faith, Proyas, and there’s faith that confuses itself for knowledge. The first embraces uncertainty, acknowledges the mysteriousness of the…
— R. Scott Bakker
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HERE ARE YOUR INSTRUCTIONS, CROWLEY. And suddenly he knew. He hated that. They could just as easily have told him, they didn't suddenly have to…
— Neil Gaiman
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Valuing knowledge above all else results in a lust for power, and that leads men into dark and empty places.
— Veronica Roth
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Love without knowledge is demonic.
— G I Gurdjieff
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If she loved him the way she said she did, she wanted him whole. Maybe this was what love meant after all: sacrifice and selflessness.…
— Melissa de la Cruz
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That deepest thing, that recognition, that knowledge, that sense of kinship began the first time I saw you,and it is the same now - only…
— Khalil Gibran
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Knowledge is a tool, and like all tools, its impact is in the hands of the user.
— Dan Brown
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Knowledge is power, and the right knowledge lets man perform miraculous, almost godlike tasks.
— Dan Brown
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I wondered why she craved this knowledge and found myself remembering that she was, after all, an anthropologist.
— Elizabeth Kostova
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An appetite for knowledge is apt to rush one off one's feet, like any other appetite if not curbed. I often stand in the in…
— W.N.P. Barbellion
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Universal access to human knowledge is in our grasp, for the first time in the history of the world. This is not a bad thing.
— Cory Doctorow
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