Knowledge Quotes
8542 quotes by 4159 authors
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As long as scientists are free to pursue the truth wherever it may lead, there will be a flow of new scientific knowledge to those…
— Vannevar Bush
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I am sincerely trying now to create a dance technique based entirely upon corrective exercises, created with a knowledge of human anatomy; a technique which…
— Lester Horton
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Let the unskilled jobs that take absolutely no knowledge whatsoever to do — let stupid and unskilled Mexicans do that work.
— Rush Limbaugh
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If you, unknowing, are able to create masterpieces in color, then unknowledge is your way. But if you are unable to create masterpieces in color…
— Johannes Itten
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Those who are enamoured of practice without science are like a pilot who goes into a ship without rudder or compass and never has any…
— Leonardo da Vinci
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And yet self-knowledge is thought by some not so easy. Who knows, my dear sir, but for a time you may have taken yourself for…
— Herman Melville
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The four points of the compass be logic, knowledge, wisdom and the unknown. Some do bow in that final direction. Others advance upon it. To…
— Roger Zelazny
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It's common platitude that knowledge is neutral but every now and then it would be useful if it was on your side and not theirs.
— John Brunner
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Education can't make us all leaders, but it can teach us which leader to follow.
— Bel Kaufman
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Somewhere I put it this way: first drafts are for learning what one’s fiction wants him to say. Revision works with that knowledge to enlarge…
— Bernard Malamud
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AÂ form of intellectual productiveness, therein lies its peculiar charm. Intellectual productiveness is one of the greatest joys - if not the greatest one -…
— Siegbert Tarrasch
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Chess is a unique battlefield for human minds and computers - human intuition, our creativity, fantasy, our logic, versus the brute force of calculation and…
— Garry Kasparov
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What I would most like to think they would take away, is what I take away when I read my favorite books. Which is the…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Knowledge is a thing that one cannot have enough of. It is the fruit of wisdom, to be eaten carefully and digested fully, unlike that…
— Brian Jacques
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To be a writer you should read, write and talk to people, hear their knowledge, hear their problems. Be a good listener. The rest will…
— Jean Craighead George
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Books minister to our knowledge, to our guidance, and to our delight, by their truth, their uprightness, and their art.
— George Henry Lewes
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I think it's difficult for young people to acknowledge being smart, to knowledge being a reader. I see kids who are embarrassed to read books.…
— Walter Dean Myers
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Trade has ever been the extinguisher of war, the eradicator of prejudice, the diffuser of knowledge.
— Henry George
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Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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Knowledge of one's identity, one's self, community, nation, religion, and God, is the true meaning of resurrection, while ignorance of it signifies hell.
— Elijah Muhammad
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