Knowledge Quotes
8542 Knowledge quotes by 3918 unique authors
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It felt good to be surrounded by books, by all this solid knowledge, by these objects that could be ripped page by page but couldn't…
— David Levithan
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Science is only a Latin word for knowledge
— Carl Sagan
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The only sovereign I can allow to rule me is reason. The first law of reason is this: what exists exists; what is is. From…
— Terry Goodkind
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Human evolution has two steps - from being somebody to being nobody; and from being nobody to being everybody. This knowledge can bring sharing and…
— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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Knowledge is dangerous and men lie and the world changes, whether I want it to or not.
— Patrick Ness
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Knowledge is a terrible burden. It may help you, but it might also destroy you.
— James Patterson
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Love is ever the beginning of knowledge as fire is of light.
— Thomas Carlyle
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What is a Poet? He is a man speaking to men: a man, it is true, endued with more lively sensibility, more enthusiasm and tenderness,…
— William Wordsworth
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Hey Jacob!" I felt an unfamiliar surge of enthusiasm at his smile. I realized that I was pleased to see him. This knowledge surprised me.…
— Stephenie Meyer
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"Intellect is the knowledge obtained by experience of names and forms; wisdom is the knowledge which manifests only from the inner being; to acquire intellect…
— Hazrat Inayat Khan
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It is my belief no man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self knowledge.
— Joseph Conrad
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It is far. But there is no journey upon this earth that a man may not make if he sets his heart to it. There…
— H. Rider Haggard
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if i have gained anything over these months, it is the knowledge there is no starting over - only living with the mistakes you've made.…
— Jodi Picoult
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We, or at least I, can have no conception of human life and human thought in a hundred years or fifty years. Perhaps my greatest…
— John Steinbeck
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What would you consider a good job?" Answered as follows: "A good job is one in which I don't have to work, and get paid…
— Isaac Asimov
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What should our second generation have done, what should it do with the knowledge of the horrors of the extermination of the Jews? We should…
— Bernhard Schlink
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The entire object of true education is to make people not merely do the right things, but enjoy the right things — not merely industrious,…
— John Ruskin
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Thus, I always began by assuming the worst; my appeal was dismissed. That meant, of course, I was to die. Sooner than others, obviously. 'But,'…
— Albert Camus
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We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about…
— Pico Iyer
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Public libraries have been a mainstay of my life. They represent an individual's right to acquire knowledge; they are the sinews that bind civilized societies…
— James A. Michener
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Its a bit mad. Too bad, I mean, that getting to know each just for a fleeting second Must be replaced by unperfect knowledge of…
— John Ashbery
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Faith moves mountains, but only knowledge moves them to the right place...
— Joseph Goebbels
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We don’t like to think of ourselves as prey—it is a lessening thought—but the truth is that in our arrogance and so-called knowledge we forget…
— Gary Paulsen
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Yes! the books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill! The only years of…
— Wilkie Collins
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One day the stars will be as familiar to each man as the landmarks, the curves, and the hills on the road that leads to…
— Beryl Markham
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