Knowledge Quotes

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That test should not be about ratings. What should weigh is the knowledge that a public broadcaster delivers programmes that matter. — Jonathan Dimbleby
Our working hypothesis is that the status of knowledge is altered as societies enter what is known as the postindustrial age and cultures enter what… — Jean-Francois Lyotard
Wonder, connected with a principle of rational curiosity, is the source of all knowledge and discover, and it is a principle even of piety; but… — Samuel Horsley
The world does not look to us in the Arab world out of a healthy desire for knowledge. — Tahar Ben Jelloun
Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving. — Mary Catherine Bateson
We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge. — John Naisbitt
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but a little want of knowledge is also a dangerous thing. — Samuel Butler
There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the later ignorance. — Hippocrates
There was never a nation great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help. — Charles Dudley Warner
A true knowledge of ourselves is knowledge of our power. — Hale White
The knowledge of the ancient languages is mainly a luxury. — John Bright
If they exert it not for good, they will for evil; if they advance not knowledge, they will perpetuate ignorance. — Frances Wright
If you know you are on the right track, if you have this inner knowledge, then nobody can turn you off... no matter what they… — Barbara McClintock
His knowledge of books had in some degree diminished his knowledge of the world. — William Shenstone
Knowledge once gained casts a light beyond its own immediate boundaries. — John Tyndall
More students have a better knowledge of pop culture than of the Constitution. — Charles Bowen
Try to put well in practice what you already know. In so doing, you will, in good time, discover the hidden things you now inquire… — Remy de Gourmont
There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge. — Michel de Montaigne
Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for comprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an instrument for acquiring… — Alexis Carrel
Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much… — Plato

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