Knowledge Quotes
8542 quotes by 4159 authors
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There are some men who are consoled by the idea that there are women less attractive than their wives; and others who are haunted by…
— John Fowles
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That’s all anyone wants from anyone else, not love itself but the knowledge that love is there.
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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For the stone from the top for geologists, the knowledge of the limits of endurance for the doctors, but above all for the spirit of…
— George Leigh Mallory
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Knowledge was more powerful than fear. Love was stronger than hate.
— Lauren Myracle
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Utopianism substitutes glorious predictions and unachievable promises for knowledge, science, and reason, while laying claim to them all.
— Mark Levin
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The key to all knowledge comes in words of just one syllable, apparently.... There's only the last page left to write on. I'll fill it…
— Dodie Smith
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As we grow in the knowledge of God's holiness, even though we are growing in the practice of holiness, it seems the gap between our…
— Jerry Bridges
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Your strength as a rationalist is your ability to be more confused by fiction than by reality. If you are equally good at explaining any…
— Eliezer Yudkowsky
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Above all else, be true to your heart. When you marry, whether it be a marquis or an estate manager (or both!), it will be…
— Julia Quinn
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An educated man is not, necessarily, one who has an abundance of general or specialized knowledge. An educated man is one who has so developed…
— Napoleon Hill
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Knowledge forbidden? Suspicious, reasonless. Why should their Lord Envy them that? Can it be a sin to know? Can it be death?
— John Milton
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No one dies of fatal truths nowadays: there are too many antidotes.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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He who speaks a bit of a foreign language has more delight in it than he who speaks it well; pleasure goes along with superficial…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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I would simply ask why so many critics, so many writers, so many philosophers take such satisfaction in professing that the experience of a work…
— Pierre Bourdieu
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History can come in handy. If you were born yesterday, with no knowledge of the past, you might easily accept whatever the government tells you.…
— Howard Zinn
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To the exponents of the Perennial Philosophy, the question whether Progress is inevitable or even real is not a matter of primary importance. For them,…
— Aldous Huxley
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Our power knows no limits, yet we cannot find food for a starving child, or a home for a refugee. Our knowledge is without measure…
— John le Carre
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What did Mira show your attacker last week? he asked, desperate to turn the attention away from himself now. Yakut shrugged. Only he can know.…
— Tina St. John
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For her, reading was directly linked to pleasure, not to knowledge or enigmas or constructions or verbal labyrinths…
— Roberto Bolano
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As always, the blessed relief of starting, a feeling that was like falling into a hole filled with bright light. As always, the glum knowledge…
— Stephen King
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