Knowledge Quotes
8542 quotes by 4159 authors
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Wisdom: Knowledge rightly applied. We assimilate lots of knowledge. Whether or not we do anything with that knowledge is a measure of our wisdom. That…
— Hyrum W. Smith
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One wonders how people in primitive societies, with no knowledge of chemistry or physiology, ever hit upon a solution to the activation of an alkaloid…
— Richard Evans Schultes
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By investing others with the power to dictate who you are, you rob yourself of an opportunity to truly grow. You shortchange yourself by devaluing…
— Elissa Schappell
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It’s time to put away our fairytales, all of them, and assume our responsibilities, the adult responsibilities that begin with adult knowledge. Our planet needs…
— Lierre Keith
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The Knowledge Rule 2080: From maggots to men, the world is a corner bully. Better you knuckle up and go for yours than have to…
— Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Your teacher cannot bridge the gap between what you know and what you want to know. For his words to ‘educate' you, you must welcome…
— Grace Llewellyn
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In a world of widely distributed knowledge, companies cannot afford to rely entirely on their own research, but should instead buy or license processes or…
— Henry Chesbrough
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No one has a monopoly on knowledge the way that, say, IBM had in the 1960s in computing, or that Bell Labs had through the…
— Henry Chesbrough
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It is philosophically impossible to be an atheist, since to be an atheist you must have infinite knowledge in order to know absolutely that there…
— Ron Carlson
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As for will, woman should be considered superior to man for Eve ate of the apple for love of knowledge and learning, but Adam ate…
— Donna Woolfolk Cross
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In order to align your life choices with your values, you will need to inquire about the effects of your actions (and inactions) on yourself…
— Zoe Weil
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Since all of us desire to be happy, and since we evidently become so on account of our use—that is our good use—of other things,…
— Socrates
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Architects should be educated, skillful with the pencil, instructed in geometry, know much history, have followed the philosophers with attention, understand music, have some knowledge…
— Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
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Everything you read in newspapers is absolutely true, except for that rare story of which you happen to have first-hand knowledge.
— Erwin Knoll
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How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in truth!
— Sophocles
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Nothing is so false as human life, nothing so treacherous. God knows no one would have accepted it as a gift, if it had not…
— Seneca the Younger
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There are those who seek knowledge for the sake of knowledge; that is curiosity. There are those who seek knowledge to be known by others;…
— Bernard of Clairvaux
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Ignorance is a poison and knowledge will nourish.
— KRS-One
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There are only two things that are absolute realities, love and knowledge, and you can't escape them.
— Olive Schreiner
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This generation lacks true knowledge of how the past has trapped you with psychological lassos over Adam's apples.
— Reks
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