Knowledge Quotes

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It is obvious that [leftists] are not cool-headed logicians systematically analyzing the foundations of knowledge. They are deeply involved emotionally in their attack on truth… — Theodore Kaczynski
And you who wish to represent by words the form of man and all the aspects of his membrification, relinquish that idea. For the more… — Leonardo da Vinci
All the stories I have told you are finally as useless as all ancient knowledge is to man and to us. Its images and its… — Anne Rice
All the Dachaus must remain standing. The Dachaus, the Belsens, the Buchenwalds, the Auschwitzes -all of them. They must remain standing because they are a… — Rod Serling
All knowledge leads to self-knowledge. — Bruce Lee
The creation of wealth is certainly not to be despised, but in the long run the only human activities really worthwhile are the search for… — Arthur C. Clarke
I had always insisted that a good education was a synthesis of book learning and involvement in social action, that each enriched the other. I… — Howard Zinn
I comfort myself with the knowledge that if Duval ever feels smothered by me, it will be because I am holding a pillow over his… — R.L. LaFevers
Education may well be, as of right, the instrument whereby every individual, in a society like our own, can gain access to any kind of… — Michel Foucault
You must live life with the full knowledge that your actions will remain. We are creatures of consequence. — Zadie Smith
He had, they said, tasted in succession all the apples of the tree of knowledge, and, whether from hunger or disgust, had ended by tasting… — Victor Hugo
Head knowledge is worthless, unless accompanied by submission of the will and right action. — Fulton J. Sheen
For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others.… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
A monk should surely love his books with humility, wishing their good and not the glory of his own curiosity; but what the temptation of… — Umberto Eco
He had known so much about her once -what she thought, how she felt, the reasons for her actions. And now he only knew that… — E. M. Forster
Wisdom and knowledge is everywhere, but so is stupity. — Trudi Canavan
When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European, or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
[To] know oneself is, above all, to know what one lacks. It is to measure oneself against Truth, and not the other way around. The… — Flannery O'Connor
Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death — Moliere
Joy is based on the spiritual knowledge that, while the world in which we live is shrouded in darkness, God has overcome the world. — Henri Nouwen

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