Knowledge Quotes

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Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge. — Dante Alighieri
A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting. — Carlos Castaneda
To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important… — Bruce Catton
The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant. — Richard Cecil
The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity. — Miguel de Cervantes
If in preaching the gospel you substitute your knowledge of the way of salvation for confidence in the power of the gospel, you hinder people… — Oswald Chambers
The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability. — Chanakya
One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the… — Chanakya
No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent. — William Ellery Channing
Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance. — William Ellery Channing
It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity. — William Ellery Channing
Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice. — Anton Chekhov
The more refined one is, the more unhappy. — Anton Chekhov
Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh. — Lord Chesterfield
Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men,… — Lord Chesterfield
Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet. — Lord Chesterfield
One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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