Knowledge Quotes

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Knowledge ... shall always bear witness like a clarion to its creator. — Leonardo da Vinci
All our knowledge is the offspring of our perceptions. — Leonardo da Vinci
The tiny, initial clue ... by allowing us to imagine what we do not know, stimulates a desire for knowledge. — Marcel Proust
Some knowledge and some song and some beauty must be kept for those days before the world again plunges into darkness. — Marion Zimmer Bradley
This desire of knowledge and the wonder which it hopes to satisfy are the driving power behind all the changes that we, with careless, question-begging… — Nicholas Murray Butler
Wisdom sets bounds even to knowledge. — Friedrich Nietzsche
There is far greater peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink. — Plato
Be for ever a student. He and he alone is an old man who feels that he has learnt enough and has need for no… — Sivananda
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing. And in knowing that you know nothing, that makes you the smartest of all. — Socrates
I tried to think of my knowledge, but it was a squirrel's heap of winter nuts. There was no strength in my knowledge any more… — Stephen Vincent Benet
Patience is a virtue, but there comes a moment when you must stop being patient and take the day by the throat and shake it.… — Laurell K. Hamilton
As words are not the things we speak about, and structure is the only link between them, structure becomes the only content of knowledge. If… — Alfred Korzybski
The Principle of Uncertainty fixed once for all the realisation that all knowledge is limited. It is an irony of history that at the very… — Jacob Bronowski
Reason is non-negotiable. Try to argue against it, or to exclude it from some realm of knowledge, and you've already lost the argument, because you're… — Steven Pinker
No concept man forms is valid unless he integrates it without contradiction into the sum of his knowledge. — Ayn Rand
Knowledge can be heady stuff, but it easily leads to an excess of zeal! -- to illusions of grandeur and a desire to impress others… — Hugh Nibley
Language grows out of life, out of its needs and experiences...Language and knowledge are indissolubly connected; they are interdependent. Good work in language presupposes and… — Anne Sullivan Macy
Still, instead of trusting what their own minds tell them, men have as a rule a weakness for trusting others who pretend to supernatural sources… — Arthur Schopenhauer
My knowledge of the human psyche is as yet imperfect. Certain areas won't yield to computation. — Poul Anderson
A judicious man uses statistics, not to get knowledge, but to save himself from having ignorance foisted upon him. — Thomas Carlyle

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