Knowledge Quotes
8542 quotes by 4159 authors
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He had no further intercourse with Spirits, but lived upon the Total Abstinence Principle, ever afterwards; and it was always said of him, that he…
— Herbert Kalmus
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It is often asserted that discussion is only possible between people who have a common language and accept common basic assumptions. I think that this…
— Karl Popper
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Access to knowledge is the superb, the supreme act of truly great civilizations. Of all the institutions that purport to do this, free libraries stand…
— Toni Morrison
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Everything we know by heart enriches us and helps us find ourselves. If it should get in the way of finding ourselves, it is because…
— Nadia Boulanger
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Whatever we do must be in accord with human nature. We cannot drive people; we must direct their development. The general policy of the past…
— Henry Gantt
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What men need is as much knowledge as they can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy…
— Thomas Huxley
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I have always suspected that too much knowledge is a dangerous thing. It is a boon to people who don't have deep feelings; their pleasure…
— Margaret Caroline Anderson
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If you live for the highest goal, you are living a life of the spirit-whether or not you consider yourself to be on a spiritual…
— Michael Ray
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Knowledge of divine things for the most part is lost to us by incredulity.
— Heraclitus
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It's never enough to just tell people about some new insight. Rather, you have to get them to experience it a way that evokes its…
— John Seely Brown
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The nurse is temporarily the consciousness of the unconscious, the love of life for the suicidal, the leg of the amputee, the eyes of the…
— Virginia Henderson
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Heat is in proportion to the want of true knowledge.
— Laurence Sterne
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Wisdom is knowledge applied. Head knowledge is useless on the battlefield. Knowledge stamped on the heartmmakes one wise
— Beth Moore
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With knowledge grows doubt.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Thenceforth they thought that, rationally concluded, doubt could become an instrument of knowledge.
— Marc Bloch
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Doubt is the tax man pays for the luxury of useless knowledge.
— Ivan Panin
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They had applied their doubts to the very head that had introduced doubt as a tool for advancing knowledge. And in the end they gave…
— Russell Shorto
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For the Christian, humility is absolutely indispensable. Without it there can be no self-knowledge, no repentance, no faith and no salvation.
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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Nothing in all the world is so good as the knowledge and love of Christ, and no pleasure that can be enjoyed equal to the…
— Susan Warner
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Knowledge, love, power-there is the complete life.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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