Knowledge Quotes
8542 quotes by 4121 authors
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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I often wonder what my life would be like without the use of a library. Throughout my education and career, public and private libraries have…
— David Horowitz
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We need not resolve the difficult question of when life begins. When those trained in the respective disciplines of medicine, philosophy, and theology are unable…
— Harry A. Blackmun
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No activity that society thinks immoral is victimless. Knowledge that an activity is taking place is a harm to those who find it profoundly immoral.
— Robert Bork
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Any man is educated who knows where to get knowledge when he needs it, and how to organize that knowledge into definite plans of action.
— Napoleon Hill
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Knowledge is only potential power. It becomes power only when, and if, it is organized into definite plans of action, and directed to a definite…
— Napoleon Hill
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Knowledge has no value except that which can be gained from its application toward some worthy end.
— Napoleon Hill
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Strong, deeply rooted desire is the starting point of all achievement. Just as the electron is the last unit of matter discernible to the scientist.…
— Napoleon Hill
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You must first have the knowledge of your power; second, the courage to dare; third, the faith to do.
— Charles F. Haanel
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Knowledge is the driving force that puts creative passion to work.
— Maurice Sendak
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The community as a whole doesn't listen patiently to critics who adopt alternative viewpoints. Although the great lesson of history is that knowledge develops through…
— Walter Gilbert
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They are afraid of educated women. They are afraid of the power of knowledge.
— Malala Yousafzai
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For my brothers it was easy to think about the future. They can be anything they want. But for me it was hard and for…
— Malala Yousafzai
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Thinking is progress. Non-thinking is stagnation of the individual, organisation and the country. Thinking leads to action. Knowledge without action is useless and irrelevant. Knowledge…
— Abdul Kalam
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The Indwelling of Christ by faithis to have Jesus Christ continually in one’s eye, a habitual sight of Him. I call it so because a…
— Thomas Goodwin
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English girls' schools today providing the higher education are, so far as my knowledge goes, worthily representative of that astonishing rise in the intellectual standards…
— Mary Augusta Ward
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No one should forget: Eros alone can fulfill life; knowledge, never. Only Eros makes sense; knowledge is empty infinity;––for thoughts, there is always time; life…
— Emile M. Cioran
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Knowledge, having irritated and stimulated our appetite for power, will lead us inexorably to our ruin.
— Emile M. Cioran
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Le Chiffre was serving a wonderful purpose, a really vital purpose, perhaps the best and highest purpose of all. By his evil existence, which I…
— Ian Fleming
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I don't find any direct statements in life. My poetry imitates or reproduces the way knowledge or awareness come to me, which is by fits…
— John Ashbery
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