Knowledge Quotes

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The Dance is an art because it demands vocation, knowledge, and ability. — August Bournonville
Consider... the university professor. What is his function? Simply to pass on to fresh generations of numskulls a body of so-called knowledge that is fragmentary,… — H. L. Mencken
Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. — Albert Einstein
Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most. — Theodore Parker
The successful teacher is no longer on a height, pumping knowledge at high pressure into passive receptacles... — William Osler
Knowledge is a comfortable and necessary retreat and shelter for us in an advanced age; and if we do not plant it while young, it… — Lord Chesterfield
Inner city education must change. Our responsibility is not merely to provide access to knowledge; we must produce educated people. — James L. Farmer, Jr.
The fruit of liberal education is not learning, but the capacity and desire to learn, not knowledge, but power. — Charles William Eliot
An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less. — Nicholas Murray Butler
Knowledge gained through experience is far superior and many times more useful than bookish knowledge. — Mahatma Gandhi
The experience of others adds to our knowledge, but not to our wisdom; that is dearer bought. — Hosea Ballou
Knowledge is the antidote to fear — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fear is a question What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your… — Marilyn Ferguson
Remember that you are a teacher, you are helping people, making them feel safer, taking them from fear to love, from ignorance to knowledge. — Stuart Wilde
The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity, since the tastes, knowledge, and principles of the majority form the tribunal of appeal. — James F. Cooper
I start ... from a belief in individual freedom and that derives fundamentally from a belief in the limitations of our knowledge, from a belief… — Milton Friedman
Real freedom comes from the mastery, through knowledge, of historic conditions and race character, which makes possible a free and intelligent use of experience for… — Hamilton Wright Mabie
The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him. — Blaise Pascal
It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge. — Brooks Atkinson

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