Knowledge Quotes

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The use of knowledge in our sex (beside the amusement of solitude) is to moderate the passions and learn to be contented with a small… — Mary Wortley Montagu
Those who awaken never rest in one place. Like swans, they rise and leave the lake. On the air they rise and fly an invisible… — Gautama Buddha
Religion is not the hero of the day, but the zero. In any exposition of the products of brains, the Sunday-School takes the booby prize.… — Marilla Ricker
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. — Socrates
A good decision is based on knowledge, and not on numbers. — Plato
If you are to do justice to [the great roles], you must fly up to them - rather than dragging them down to you -… — Harold Guskin
Half the worry in the world is caused by people trying to make decisions before they have sufficient knowledge on which to base a decision. — Dean Hawkes
He said that there was one only good, namely, knowledge; and one only evil, namely, ignorance. — Socrates
I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I am not sure you realise that what you heard is not… — Robert McCloskey
Our knowledge and understanding of nonhuman animals is polluted far more than we acknowledge by our belief in our own superiority, our unrecognized cultural programming,… — Will Tuttle
Well I am certainly wiser than this man. It is only too likely that neither of us has any knowledge to boast of; but he… — Socrates
Good science requires distinguishing between "felt knowledge" and knowledge arising out of testable observations. "I am sure" is a mental sensation, not a testable conclusion.… — Robert A. Burton
The Buddhas, the World-Honored Ones, for one great cause alone appear in the world. The Buddhas, the World-Honored Ones, appear in the world because they… — Gautama Buddha
Monks, when ignorance is abandoned, and knowledge arises in the monk, with the ending of ignorance and the arising of knowledge he clings neither to… — Gautama Buddha
Through zeal, knowledge is gotten, through lack of zeal, knowledge is lost; let a man who knows this double path of gain and loss thus… — Gautama Buddha
A fool acquires knowledge only to his own disadvantage. It destroys what good he has, and turns his brains. — Gautama Buddha
After much seeking for truth and knowledge the profoundness of reality came to me with a clarity never before known. — Gautama Buddha
Establish your mind as necessary for knowledge and remembrance. Establish a mind free of grasping to anything. — Gautama Buddha
The knowledge of which geometry aims is the knowledge of the eternal. — Plato
Those who have a natural talent for calculation are generally quick-witted at every other kind of knowledge; and even the dull, if they have had… — Plato

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