Knowledge Quotes
8542 Knowledge quotes by 3918 unique authors
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Perfect love casts out fear. Where there is love there are no demands, no expectations, no dependency. I do not demand that you make me…
— Anthony de Mello
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And they will return one day knowing the miracle of the heavens and of all the world. God knew what he was doing when he…
— Paulo Coelho
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Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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To represent a bad thing in its least offensive light is, doubtless, the most agreeable course for a writer of fiction to pursue; but is…
— Anne Bronte
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At first glance, the key and the lock it fits may seem very different," Sazed said. "Different in shape, different in function, different in design.…
— Brandon Sanderson
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We love people differently at different stages of our knowledge of them. As love changes its hape and its nature, we have to decide what…
— Barbara Hambly
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I don't miss him anymore. Most of the time, anyway. I want to. I wish I could but unfortunately, it's true: time does heal. It…
— Charles Yu
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Calvin: The more you know, the harder it is to take decisive action. Once you are informed, you start seeing complexities and shades of gray.…
— Bill Watterson
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You have not known what you are--you have slumber'd upon yourself all your life; Your eye-lids have been the same as closed most of the…
— Walt Whitman
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But we do need a breather. We do need knowledge. And perhaps in a thousand years we might pick smaller cliffs to jump off. The…
— Ray Bradbury
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I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge.
— Robert Fulghum
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Knowledge rooted in experience shapes what we value and as a consequence how we know what we know as well as how we use what…
— Bell Hooks
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Christianity taught us to see the eye of the lord looking down upon us. Such forms of knowledge project an image of reality, at the…
— Gilles Deleuze
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When it came to hiding, even Gwin had nothing to teach Dustfinger. A strange sense of curiosity had always driven him to explore the hidden,…
— Cornelia Funke
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When was the last time you used the words 'teach me'? Maybe not since you started first grade? Here's an irony about school: The daily…
— Jerry Spinelli
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Yes,' growled Fell, 'for animals do not know what they do, but man has knowledge of his cruelty.
— David Clement-Davies
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At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope it can be done, then they…
— Frances Hodgson Burnett
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When a reader enters the pages of a book of poetry, he or she enters a world where dreams transform the past into knowledge made…
— Aberjhani
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But need alone is not enough to set power free: there must be knowledge.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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He knew now, and the knowledge was hard, that his task had never been to undo what he had done, but to finish what he…
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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I have almost no capacity for worship. What I have is the knowledge that it is my duty to worship and worship only what I…
— Flannery O'Connor
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I am neither especially clever nor especially gifted. I am only very, very curious.
— Albert Einstein
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The truth is that even big collections of ordinary books distort space, as can readily be proved by anyone who has been around a really…
— Terry Pratchett
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Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon or star.
— Confucius
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To achieve accurate knowledge of others, if such a thing were possible, we could only ever arrive at it through the slow and unsure recognition…
— Marcel Proust
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