Knowledge Quotes
8542 quotes by 4159 authors
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It is by a thorough knowledge of the whole subject that [people] are enabled to judge correctly of the past and to give a proper…
— John Quincy Adams
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Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil - not the strength to choose between the two.
— John Cheever
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The Scriptures were not given to increase our knowledge, but to change our lives.
— Dwight L. Moody
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When I'm hiring, I don't look for credentials, I look for knowledge.
— Aza Raskin
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You'll come to learn a great deal if you study the Insignificant in depth.
— Odysseas Elytis
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Zeal without knowledge is the sister of folly.
— Sir John Davies
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It is in these acts called trivialities that the seeds of joy are forever wasted, until men and women look round with haggard faces at…
— George Eliot
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I have not eaten enough of the tree of knowledge, though in my profession I am obligated to feed on it regularly.
— Albert Einstein
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...and knowledge is one of the finest attributes of man - though often it is most loudly voiced by those who strive for it the…
— Albert Einstein
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It is true that the grasping of truth is not possible without empirical basis. However, the deeper we penetrate and the more extensive and embracing…
— Albert Einstein
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A novelist can shift view-point if it comes off. ... Indeed, this power to expand and contract perception (of which the shifting view-point is a…
— E. M. Forster
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The beginning of human knowledge is through the senses, and the fiction writer begins where the human perception begins. He appeals through the senses, and…
— Flannery O'Connor
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It has been said that knowledge is power. We need to strengthen education systems so that young people can benefit from cultural diversity, and not…
— Ban Ki-moon
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Youth, though it may lack knowledge, is certainly not devoid of intelligence; it sees through shams with sharp and terrible eyes.
— H. L. Mencken
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The Lourie Center is an important model to consider...(in) mental health care... It is imperative that we use this knowledge to help ensure that every…
— Tipper Gore
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Knowledge is the key to stopping the spread of AIDS. Yet millions of children are missing an education. Missing their teachers who have died of…
— Susan Sarandon
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One cannot enter don Juan's world intellectually, like a dilettante seeking fast and fleeting knowledge. Nor, in don Juan's world, can anything be verified absolutely.…
— Carlos Castaneda
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As our knowledge is converted to wisdom, the door to opportunity is unlocked.
— Barbara W. Winder
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No one suggests that writing about science will turn the entire world into a model of judgment and creative thought. It will be enough if…
— Isaac Asimov
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There are people who have never studied writing who are capable of being writers. I know this because I am an example. I was a…
— Elizabeth Berg
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