Knowledge Quotes

8542 Knowledge quotes by 3918 unique authors

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… — George Eliot
The library in summer is the most wonderful thing because there you get books on any subject and read them each for only as long… — Polly Horvath
Every test successfully met is rewarded by some growth in intuitive knowledge, strengthening of character, or initiation into a higher consciousness. — Paul Brunton
It is one thing to say you're at war with this whole world and stick your chest out believing it, but when the world shows… — Leif Enger
The illness of a doctor is always worse than the illnesses of his patients.The patients only feel, but the doctor, as well as feeling, has… — Maxim Gorky
Inside Laila too a battle was being waged : guilt on one side, partnered with shame, and, on the other, the conviction that what she… — Khaled Hosseini
I will tell you a little secret about archaeologists, dear Reader. They all pretend t be very high-minded. They claim that their sole aim in… — Barbara Mertz
Fall leaves are brilliant with gold and red. You can cup them in your hand and wonder at them, be amazed at their uniqueness and… — Rob Thurman
...quality of life lies in knowledge, in culture. Values are what constitute true quality of life, the supreme quality of life, even above food, shelter… — Fidel Castro
Knowledge is a burden--once taken up, it can never be discarded. — Stephen R. Lawhead
For the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house. They may allow us to temporarily beat him at his own game, but they will… — Audre Lorde
And suddenly, just like that, hope became knowledge. I was going to win. It was just a matter of when. — Khaled Hosseini
Keep the extent of your abilities unknown.The wise man does not allow his knowledge and abilities to be sounded to the bottom, if he desires… — Baltasar Gracian
My desire for knowledge is intermittent; but my desire to bathe my head in atmospheres unknown to my feet is perennial and constant. The highest… — Henry David Thoreau
Now she had a fumbling knowledge that, had she ever understood Ashley, she would never have loved him; had she ever understood Rhett, she would… — Margaret Mitchell
For a moment I had a strange intuition that just this, and in a real, profound sense, is life; and perhaps happiness even - love… — Erich Maria Remarque
People parted, years passed, they met again- and the meeting proved no reunion, offered no warm memories, only the acid knowledge that time had passed… — Jacqueline Susann
we are such inward secret creatures, that inwardness the most amazing thing about us, even more amazing than our reason. but we cannot just walk… — Iris Murdoch
There comes a time in life when you know what you like and have to make up your mind to like what you know, or… — Vincent Price
Habit is the intersection of knowledge (what to do), skill (how to do), and desire (want to do). — Stephen Covey
The vast distances that separate the stars are providential. Beings and worlds are quarantined from one another. The quarantine is lifted only for those with… — Carl Sagan
How deluded we sometimes are by the clear notions we get out of books. They make us think that we really understand things of which… — Thomas Merton
Knowledge kills action; action requires the veils of illusion. — Friedrich Nietzsche
I love you. As the same value, as the same expression, with the same pride and the same meaning as I love my work, my… — Ayn Rand
I sold my soul for knowledge of the future, only to have that very pact render me forever ignorant (Gerald Tarrant). — C.S. Friedman

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