Knowledge Quotes
8542 quotes by 4159 authors
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There is oftentimes a great deal of knowledge where there is but little wisdom to improve that knowledge. It is not the most knowing Christian…
— Thomas Brooks
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He knoweth the universe, and himself he knoweth not.
— Jean de La Fontaine
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Knowledge is folly unless grace guide it.
— George Herbert
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Extremes are for us as though they were not, and we are not within their notice. They escape us, or we them. This is our…
— Blaise Pascal
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What must be the knowledge of Him, from whom all created minds have derived both their power of knowledge, and the innumerable objects of their…
— Timothy Dwight IV
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Upon the progress of knowledge the whole progress of the human race is immediately dependent: he who retards that, hinders this also.
— Johann Gottlieb Fichte
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What we do not understand we do not possess.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Diffused knowledge immortalizes itself.
— James Mackintosh
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Pursuit of knowledge under difficulties.
— Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux
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Real knowledge never promoted either turbulence or unbelief; but its progress is the forerunner of liberality and enlightened toleration.
— Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux
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What is all Knowledge too but recorded Experience, and a product of History; of which, therefore, Reasoning and Belief, no less than Action and Passion,…
— Thomas Carlyle
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Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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There are a multitude of allied branches of knowledge connected with mans condition; the relation of these to political economy is analogous to the connexion…
— William Stanley Jevons
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Knowledge of the truth I may perhaps have attained to; happiness certainly not. What shall I do? Accomplish something in the world, men tell me.…
— Soren Kierkegaard
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Not if I know myself at all.
— Charles Lamb
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As all true virtue, wherever found, is a ray of the life of the All-Holy; so all solid knowledge, all really accurate thought, descends from…
— Henry Parry Liddon
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A kind of semi-Solomon, half-knowing everything, from the cedar to the hyssop.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
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Let me always remember that it is not the amount of religious knowledge which I have, but the amount which I use, that determines my…
— Alexander MacLaren
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Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.
— Horace Mann
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Only by knowledge of that which is not thyself, shall thyself be learned.
— Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
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