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Knowledge Quotes by George Eliot
- Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be;…
- It is in these acts called trivialities that the seeds of joy are forever wasted, until men and women look round with haggard faces at…
- It is a common sentence that Knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of Ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up…
- Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be.…
- Everybody liked better to conjecture how the thing was, than simply to know it; for conjecture soon became more confident than knowledge, and had a…
- A human life, I think, should be well rooted in some area of native land where it may get the love of tender kinship from…
- What novelty is worth the sweet monotony where everything is known, and loved because it is known?
- Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
- To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern, that no shade of quality escapes it, and so quick to feel,…
- Poetry and art and knowledge are sacred and pure.
- Signs are small measurable things, but interpretations are illimitable, and in girls of sweet, ardent nature, every sign is apt to conjure up wonder, hope,…
- Let my body dwell in poverty, and my hands be as the hands of the toiler; but let my soul be as a temple of…
- If you deliver an opinion at all, it is mere stupidity not to do it with an air of conviction and well-founded knowledge. You make…
- It is a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up…
- Can anything be more disgusting than to hear people called 'educated' making small jokes about eating ham, and showing themselves empty of any real knowledge…
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