Knowledge Quotes
8542 quotes by 4159 authors
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It is not enough merely to memorize and spout vocal axioms good singing is infinitely more than much talk and head-knowledge.
— Jerome Hines
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The disorganisers are those who want to level everything: property, comforts, the price of commodities, the various services rendered to the State... who want the…
— Jacques Pierre Brissot
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Though we [Humanists] take a strict position on what constitutes knowledge, we are not critical of the source of ideas. Often intuitive feelings, hunches, speculation,…
— Fred Edwords
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Nothing puts a greater obstacle in the way of the progress of knowledge than thinking that one knows what one does not yet know.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
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A lack of knowledge creates fear. Seeking knowledge creates courage.
— Candice Swanepoel
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You haven't changed. You may say: 'I'm full of love, I'm full of truth, I'm full of knowledge, I'm full of wisdom.' I say: 'That's…
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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A man who wishes to make a profession of goodness in everything must necessarily come to grief among so many who are not good. Therefore,…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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If you are a strong man, very good! But do not curse others who are not strong enough for you. ...Everyone says, "Woe unto you…
— Swami Vivekananda
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Vulgar and inactive minds confound familiarity with knowledge, and conceive themselves informed of the whole nature of things, when they are shown their form or…
— Samuel Johnson
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During periods of relaxation after concentrated intellectual activity, the intuitive mind seems to take over and can produce the sudden clarifying insights which give so…
— Fritjof Capra
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Man must begin to the unitary principle of man - knowing that there are not separate men or separate individuals, but hat the whole man…
— Walter Russell
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"What I've learned about teaching is to refer back to the root of that word, which is educo, which means "to pull from." Education does…
— Alan Arkin
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Great knowledge is requisite to instruct those who have been well instructed, but still greater knowledge is requisite to instruct those who have been neglected.
— Horace Mann
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Fortunately or otherwise we live at a time when the average individual has to know several times as much in order to keep informed as…
— Norman Cousins
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And the quality of good judgement is clearly a form of knowledge and skill, as it is because of knowledge and not because of ignorance…
— Plato
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So the state founded on natural principles is wise as a whole in virtue of the knowledge inherent in its smallest constituent class, which exercises…
— Plato
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The philosopher is in love with truth, that is, not with the changing world of sensation, which is the object of opinion, but with the…
— Plato
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There is no nobler profession, nor no greater calling, than to be among those unheralded many who gave and give their lives to the preservation…
— Laurence Overmire
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The supremacy of public opinion determines not only the singular role that economics occupies in the complex of thought and knowledge. It determines the whole…
— Ludwig von Mises
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After such knowledge, what forgiveness? Think now History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors And issues, deceives with whispering ambitions Guides us by vanities.
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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