Knowledge Quotes

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A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others. — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
Honesty is the best policy. — Benjamin Franklin
We are anxious when there is a dissonance between our "knowledge" and the perceivable facts. Since our "knowledge" is not to be doubted or questioned,… — Nathaniel Branden
In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it: they must not do… — Wystan Hugh Auden
"The true essence of humankind is kindness. There are other qualities which come from education or knowledge, but it is essential, if one wishes to… — Dalai Lama
If there is love, there is hope that one may have real families, real brotherhood, real equanimity, real peace. If the love within your mind… — Dalai Lama
I know that I have lived because I have felt, and, feeling giving me the knowledge of my existence. — Giacomo Casanova
It is sometimes easier to be happy if you don't know everything. — Alexander McCall Smith
Where my reason, imagination or interest were not engaged, I would not or I could not learn. — Winston Churchill
If knowledge is power, clandestine knowledge is power squared; it can be withheld, exchanged, and leveraged. — Letty Cottin Pogrebin
Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is enlightenment. — Laozi
A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar. — Laozi
Courage is... the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared. — David Ben-Gurion
When I was sixteen, I danced before an audience without music. At the end someone suddenly cried 'its Death and the Maiden'. But that was… — Isadora Duncan
Knowledge passes from dance teacher into the student through the process of mane, which is often translated as imitation, but learning to dance is more… — Mineko Iwasaki
Rid your body of its impurities, let your speech be true and sweet, feel friendship for the world, and with humility seek wealth and knowledge. — Tirumalai Krishnamacharya
Aging is an inevitable process. I surely wouldn't want to grow younger. The older you become, the more you know; your bank account of knowledge… — William Holden
Worry affects the circulation, the heart, the glands, the whole nervous system. I have never known a man who died from over work, but many… — Charles Horace Mayo
You don't need an explanation for everything, Recognize that there are such things as miracles - events for which there are no ready explanations. Later… — Harry Browne
The ability to think straight, some knowledge of the past, some vision of the future, some urge to fit that service into the well-being of… — Virginia Gildersleeve

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