Knowledge Quotes

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Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't take much away, so knowledge sort of… — Abbott Lawrence Lowell
The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder. — Ralph Washington Sockman
Use your knowledge, and your heart, to stand up for those who can't stand, speak for those who can't speak, be a beacon of light… — Julie Andrews
You increase your self-respect when you feel you've done everything you ought to have done, and if there is nothing else to enjoy, there remains… — Eugene Delacroix
Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect. Every advance into knowledge opens new prospects, and produces new incitements to… — Samuel Johnson
All knowledge is interesting to a wise man, and the knowledge of nature is interesting to all men. — Matthew Arnold
How can we learn self-knowledge? Never by taking thought but rather by action. Try to do your duty and you'll soon discover what you're like. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Well-being and happiness never appeared to me as an absolute aim. I am even inclined to compare such moral aims to the ambitions of a… — Albert Einstein
Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge. Remedies from chemicals will never stand in favor compared with… — Thomas A. Edison
Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad. — Miles Kington
What is all knowledge except recorded experience, and a product of history? — Thomas Carlyle
With the historian it is an article of faith that knowledge of the past is a key to understanding the present. — Kenneth M. Stampp
History is not only a particular branch of knowledge, but a particular mode and method of knowledge in other branches. — Lord Acton
Knowledge Qf history frees us to be contemporary. — Lynn Townsend White, Jr.
All our knowledge - past, present, and future - is nothing compared to what we will never know. — Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
I am not blind to the shortcomings of our own people. I am not unaware that leaders betray, and sell out, and play false. But… — Mother Jones
History is for human self-knowledge. Knowing yourself means knowing, first, what it is to be a person; secondly, knowing what it is to be the… — Robin G. Collingwood
Whoever acquires knowledge but does not practice it is as one who ploughs but does not sow. — Saadi
It is better to have useless knowledge than to know nothing. — Seneca the Younger
Consultant: an ordinary guy more than 50 miles from home. — Eric Sevareid

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