Knowledge Quotes

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He that knew all that learning ever writ, Knew only this - that he knew nothing yet. — Aphra Behn
Be ignorance thy choice, where knowledge leads to woe. — James Beattie
The intellectual takes as a starting point his self and relates the world to his own sensibilities; the scientist accepts an existing field of knowledge… — Daniel Bell
Pain is the root of knowledge. — Simone Veil
It is in his knowledge that man has found his greatness and his happiness, the high superiority which he holds over the other animals who… — James Smithson
It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill. — Wilbur Wright
Yet with great toil all that I can attain by long experience, and in learned schools, is for to know my knowledge is but vain,… — William Alexander
To deal with the stark reality of having hit or hurt a woman or child, to deal with the initial responsibility you have not to… — David Soul
Wonder is the desire for knowledge. — Thomas Aquinas
Anything that gives us new knowledge gives us an opportunity to be more rational. — Herbert Simon
An excessive knowledge of Marxism is a sign of a misspent youth. — John McCarthy
Was this an old disease, and, if so, which one? If it was new, what did that say about the state of medical knowledge? And… — Peter Lewis Allen
A good government implies two things; first, fidelity to the objects of the government; secondly, a knowledge of the means, by which those objects can… — Joseph Story
Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values. — Sidney Hook
It means that through knowledge have come responsibility and hope, and through both, action. — Edward Livingston
He who binds his soul to knowledge, steals the key of heaven. — Nathaniel Parker Willis
Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; but knowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, unlimited in space and indefinite… — DeWitt Clinton
The mathematical facts worthy of being studied are those which, by their analogy with other facts, are capable of leading us to the knowledge of… — Henri Poincare
This required the development of a view which allowed one to integrate research with belief, thing with person, fact with aesthetics, knowledge with application of… — Kenneth L. Pike
Moreover, all our knowledge of organic remains teaches us, that species have a definite existence, and a centralization in geological time as well as in… — Edward Forbes

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