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Knowledge Quotes by Ambrose Bierce
- Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.
- Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.
- The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
- NECTAR, n. A drink served at banquets of the Olympian deities. The secret of its preparation is lost, but the modern Kentuckians believe that they…
- PAST, n. That part of Eternity with some small fraction of which we have a slight and regrettable acquaintance. [T]he Past is the Future of…
- Book - Learning : The dunce's derisive term for all knowledge that transcends his own impertinent ignorance.
- POSITIVISM- A philosophy that denies our knowledge of the Real and affirms our ignorance of the Apparent. Its longest exponent is Comte, its broadest Mill…
- IGNORAMUS, n. A person unacquainted with certain kinds of knowledge familiar to yourself, and having certain other kinds that you know nothing about.
- CONSOLATION, n. The knowledge that a better man is more unfortunate than yourself.
- MAGNETISM, n. Something acting upon a magnet. The two definitions immediately foregoing are condensed from the works of one thousand eminent scientists, who have illuminated…
- ACCOMPLICE, n. One associated with another in a crime, having guilty knowledge and complicity, as an attorney who defends a criminal, knowing him guilty. This…
- The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge.
- Ardor, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
- NECTAR, n. A drink served at banquets of the Olympian deities. The secret of its preparation is lost, but the modern Kentuckians believe that they…
- IGNORAMUS, n. A person unacquainted with certain kinds of knowledge familiar to yourself, and having certain other kinds that you know nothing about. Dumble was…
- Faith. Belief without evidencein what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, ofthings without parallel.
More Knowledge Quotes
- We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that. — J. J. Abrams
- Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of… — Aristophanes
- Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we… — Aristotle
- The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching. — Aristotle
- Salvation means knowing the truth. We do not become anything; we are what we are. Salvation [comes] by faith and not by… — Swami Vivekananda
- Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach. — Aristotle
- All men by nature desire knowledge. — Aristotle
- The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading. — David Bailey