Knowledge Quotes

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An impersonal and scientific knowledge of the structure of our bodies is the surest safeguard against prurient curiosity and lascivious gloating. — Marie Stopes
The way to belief is short and easy, the way to knowledge is long and hard. — Ernst Stuhlinger
Given our inevitably incomplete knowledge about key structural aspects of an everchanging economy and the sometimes asymmetric costs or benefits of particular outcomes, a central… — Alan Greenspan
Given the way universities work to reinforce and perpetuate the status quo, the way knowledge is offered as commodity, Women's Studies can easily become the… — Bell Hooks
I never keep a scorecard or the batting averages. I hate statistics. What I got to know, I keep in my head. — Dizzy Dean
More is got from one book on which the thought settles for a definite end in knowledge, than from libraries skimmed over by a wandering… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
We are now at a point in time when the ability to receive, utilize, store, transform and transmit data - the lowest cognitive form -… — Dee Hock
The power of concentration is the only key to the treasure-house of knowledge. — Swami Vivekananda
The power of spiritual knowledge gives you centeredness, which brings out passion in work & dispassion in meditation. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Spiritual knowledge improves intuitive ability, innovative ability and communication. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Desire to know why, and how curiosity, which is a lust of the mind, that a perseverance of delight in the continued and indefatigable generation… — Thomas Hobbes
With equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of men. I have wished to know why the stars shine.… — Bertrand Russell
I am satisfied with the mystery of life's eternity and with a knowledge, a sense, of the marvelous structure of existence - as well as… — Albert Einstein
If our knowledge is, as I believe, only an island in an infinite sea of ignorance, how can we in our short lifetime find satisfaction… — Daniel J. Boorstin
Among the lower classes of mankind there will be found very little desire of any other knowledge than what may contribute immediately to the relief… — Samuel Johnson
I am far from any intention to limit curiosity, or confine the labours of learning to arts of immediate and necessary use. It is only… — Samuel Johnson
Experience is retrospect knowledge. — Hosea Ballou
Our reverence for the nobility of manhood will not be lessened by the knowledge that man is in substance and in structure, one with the… — Thomas Huxley
The assaying of tea is an art and not a science. It is the man, and not his instruments, which is the most important. There… — Timothy Mo
The mathematical is that evident aspect of things within which we are always already moving and according to which we experience them as things at… — Martin Heidegger

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