Knowledge Quotes
8542 quotes by 4159 authors
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The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.
— George Bernard Shaw
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In all living there is a certain narrowness of application which leads to breadth and power. We have to concent on a thing in order…
— Ralph Washington Sockman
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When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.
— Herbert Spencer
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Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
— Simeon Strunsky
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I said that an expert was a fella who was afraid to learn anything new because then he wouldn't be an expert anymore.
— Harry S. Truman
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Information appears to stew out of me naturally, like the precious otter of roses out of the otter.
— Mark Twain
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Though completely armed with knowledge and endowed with power, we are blind and impotent in a world we have equipped and organized-a world of which…
— Paul Valery
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The color of the object illuminated partakes of the color of that which illuminates it.
— Leonardo da Vinci
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In the scientific world I find just that disinterested devotion to great ends that I hope will spread at last through the entire range of…
— H.G. Wells
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In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way, and the pavement is eternal.
— Willis R. Whitney
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Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Knowledge is like underwear. It is useful to have it, but not necessary to show it off.
— Nicky Gumbel
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If you give me rice, I'll eat today; if you teach me how to grow rice, I'll eat every day.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
— Joseph Addison
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A man's errors are his portals of discovery.
— James Joyce
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Skill to do comes of doing.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall: but in charity there…
— Francis Bacon
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Humor and knowledge are the two great hopes of our culture.
— Konrad Lorenz
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All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.
— Walter Benjamin
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During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief.
— Albert Einstein
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