Knowledge Quotes
8542 Knowledge quotes by 3918 unique authors
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Nobody is capable of of free speech unless he knows how to use language, and such knowledge is not a gift: it has to learned…
— Northrop Frye
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Self-knowledge involves relationship. To know oneself is to study one self in action with another person. Relationship is a process of self evaluation and self…
— Bruce Lee
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No, I don’t have to tell a soul about this, I promised myself. When you are a kid, you don’t know yet that a secret,…
— Karen Russell
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I realize that some people will not believe that a child of little more than ten years is capable of having such feelings. My story…
— Hermann Hesse
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He had no conscious knowledge of death, but like every animal of the Wild, he possessed the instinct of death. To him it stood as…
— Jack London
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Judgement can do without knowledge: but not knowledge without judgement.
— Michel de Montaigne
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Learning is not the accumulation of knowledge, but rather, one thing only: understanding
— Donna Jo Napoli
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It is possible to know all about doctrine and yet not know Jesus. The soul is in danger when knowledge of doctrine outsteps intimate touch…
— Oswald Chambers
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Sometimes IVs and pills weren’t always the best course of treatment for the injured. Sometimes all you needed was the touch of the one you…
— J R Ward
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Were it possible for us to see further than our knowledge reaches, and yet a little way beyond the outworks of our divinings, perhaps we…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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It's where we're nearest to our humanness. Useless knowledge for its own sake. Useful knowledge is good, too, but it's for the faint-hearted, an elaboration…
— Tom Stoppard
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A philosopher is a lover of wisdom, not of knowledge, which for all its great uses ultimately suffers from the crippling effect of ephemerality. All…
— Shashi Tharoor
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Guarding knowledge is not a good way to understand. Understanding means to throw away your knowledge.
— Nhat Hanh
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We have artists with no scientific knowledge and scientists with no artistic knowledge and both with no spiritual sense of gravity at all, and the…
— Robert M. Pirsig
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I should like a parsley sandwich. To the best of my knowledge they are not in season.
— Edward Gorey
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Archie became absolutely still, afraid that the rapid beating of his heart might betray his sudden knowledge, the proof of what he'd always suspected, not…
— Robert Cormier
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Isn't death the boundary we need? Doesn't it give a precious texture to life, a sense of definition? You have to ask yourself whether anything…
— Don DeLillo
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...Writings can be stolen, or changed, or used for evil purposes. But isn't the risk worth taking? The more people who share knowledge, the greater…
— Lloyd Alexander
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Truth has to be repeated constantly, because Error also is being preached all the time, and not just by a few, but by the multitude.…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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True knowledge never shuts the door on more knowledge, but zeal often does.
— Hugh Nibley
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The knowledge of the cross brings a conflict of interest between God who has become man and man who wishes to become God.
— Jürgen Moltmann
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When Eve ate the apple her knowledge increased. But God liked dumb women so Paradise ceased. Gwen Goodnight. Her Work.
— Jennifer Crusie
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Everybody knows it. Wizards are supposed to have beards. It's common knowledge.
— Terry Goodkind
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It all depends on the robber's knowledge of the loser's knowledge of the robber. - Daupin
— Edgar Allan Poe
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Patience is a godly attribute that can heal souls, unlock treasures of knowledge and understanding, and transform ordinary men and women into saints and angels.…
— Dieter F. Uchtdorf
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