Knowledge Quotes

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Our true and genuine wisdom can be summed up as the knowledge of God and the knowledge of ourselves. — John Calvin
Man's value before God is estimated by the dispositions of his heart, its uprightness, its good will, its charity, and not by keenness of intellect… — Anne Catherine Emmerich
Natural knowledge has not forgone emotion. It has simply taken for itself new ground of emotion, under impulsion from and in sacrifice to that one… — Charles Scott Sherrington
The dance of life finds its beginnings in grief......Here a completely new way of living is revealed. It is the way in which pain can… — Henri Nouwen
The essence of education is not to transfer knowledge; it is to guide the learning process, to put responsibility for study in the student's own… — Tsunesaburo Makiguchi
The earth has enough knowledge and resources to eradicate this ancient scourge. Hunger has plagued the world for thousands of years. But ending it is… — George McGovern
Perhaps we're too embarrassed to change or too frightened of the consequences of showing that we actually care. But why not risk it anyway? Begin… — Princess Diana
A knowledge of brain science will provide one of the major foundations of the new age to come. That knowledge will spawn cures for disease,… — Gerald Edelman
There are those among us who would have us say that the mysteries of the brain are completely solved and little needs to be added… — Nicolas Steno
In 1847, two years before the greedy rush for gold began in California, the Mormons quietly began irrigating Utah's Salt Lake Valley. In a sense,… — Stuart Campbell
The evolutionary vision is agnostic in regard to systems in the universe of greater complexity than those of which human beings have clear knowledge. — Kenneth E. Boulding
You and your horse. His strength and beauty. Your knowledge and patience and determination and understanding and love. That's what fuses the two of you… — Monica Dickens
To know things as they are is better than to believe things as they seem. — Tom Wicker
But if we laugh with derision, we will never understand. Human intellectual capacity has not altered for thousands of years so far as we can… — Stephen Jay Gould
Knowledge without devotion is like a stone in water. — Sylvia Fraser
You own a dog with the knowledge that it will move through the stages of existence in fast forward, providing you with a lesson about… — Antonya Nelson
A self-conscious society will therefore endeavor to limit sect forming by providing for the widest possible diffusion of secular knowledge. — Edward Alsworth Ross
Great advantage is drawn from knowledge of your adversary, and when you know the measure of his intelligence and character, you can use it to… — Frederick The Great
The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all is the person who argues with him. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
I have always tempered my killing with respect for the game pursued. I see the animal not only as a target, but as a living… — Fred Bear

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