Knowledge Quotes
8542 quotes by 4159 authors
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My major hobby is teasing people who take themselves and the quality of their knowledge too seriously and those who don't have the guts to…
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Get knowledge of the spine, for this is the requisite for many diseases
— Hippocrates
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Education has two aspects; the first is related to external and worldly education, which is nothing but acquiring bookish knowledge. In the modern world, we…
— Sathya Sai Baba
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People are supposed to fear the unknown, but ignorance is bliss when knowledge is so damn frightening.
— Laurell K. Hamilton
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The greatest gain from space travel consists in the extension of our knowledge. In a hundred years this newly won knowledge will pay huge and…
— Wernher von Braun
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The profession of film director can and should be such a high and precious one; that no man aspiring to it can disregard any knowledge…
— Sergei Eisenstein
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The most important seed I can sow in this life is my children, and the love and knowledge that I can bestow upon them and…
— Steven Seagal
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Look at the evils of the world around you and protect yourself from them. Our teachers give all the wrong messages to our youth, since…
— Muhammad Iqbal
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People say to you, 'you've changed', or something like that, well, I hope, for the sake of God, that you have changed, because I don't…
— Hamza Yusuf
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Knowledge exists potentially in the human soul like the seed in the soil; by learning the potential becomes actual.
— Al-Ghazali
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The happiness of the drop is to die in the river.
— Al-Ghazali
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Strong, proactive obedience is anything but weak or passive. It is the means by which we declare our faith in God and qualify ourselves to…
— L. Tom Perry
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Revealed insights should leave us stricken with the knowledge of how little we really know. It should never lead to an emotional arrogance based upon…
— Hugh B. Brown
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We need to take information, wherever it is stored, make our copies and share them with the world. We need to take stuff that's out…
— Aaron Swartz
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The [abortion] excommunication affects all those who commit this crime with knowledge of the penalty attached, and thus includes those accomplices without which the crime…
— Pope John Paul II
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True knowledge consists in knowing things, not words.
— Mary Wortley Montagu
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The knowledge of numbers is one of the chief distinctions between us and the brutes.
— Mary Wortley Montagu
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Ah, child and youth, if you knew the bliss which resides in the taste of knowledge, and the evil and ugliness that lies in ignorance,…
— Christine de Pizan
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Once a man criticized my desire for knowledge by saying that it was not fitting for a woman to possess learning because there was so…
— Christine de Pizan
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Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
— Plotinus
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