Knowledge Quotes
8542 Knowledge quotes by 3918 unique authors
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Knowledge is freedom and with freedom comes understanding.
— Julie Garwood
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Oh yeah, you’re a regular sage. Shouldn’t you be sitting on a mountain somewhere cultivating a long white beard waiting for knowledge seekers to come…
— Jacquelyn Frank
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Believe in yourself and in your own voice, because there will be times in this business when you will be the only one who does.…
— Jayne Ann Krentz
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Probability is not a mere computation of odds on the dice or more complicated variants; it is the acceptance of the lack of certainty in…
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Self-knowledge is the only basis of true knowledge.
— John Taylor Gatto
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The Lord did not create suffering. Pain and death came into the world with the fall of man. But after man had chosen suffering in…
— Thomas Merton
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Experiment is the only means of knowledge at our disposal. Everything else is poetry, imagination.
— Max Planck
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Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all…
— Albert Einstein
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To recognize our bias toward error should teach us modesty and reflection, and to forgive it should help us avoid the inhumanity of thinking we…
— Marilynne Robinson
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The greatest obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents, and the oceans was not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge.
— Daniel J. Boorstin
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One thing a man must have: either a naturally light disposition or a disposition lightened by art and knowledge.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.
— Alan Watts
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Not all men are the same, you know. With someone such as Gavriel, I would suggest appearing aloof, not chasing too much. He might see…
— R.L. LaFevers
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Any man who tries to be good all the time is bound to come to ruin among the great number who are not good. Hence…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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If we have a simple existence, we shall feel how happy and how fortunate we are. There are some people who are of the opinion…
— Sri Chinmoy
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No price is too great to pay for inner peace. Peace is the harmonious control of life. It is vibrant with life-energy. It is a…
— Sri Chinmoy
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I don't feel frightened by not knowing things, by being lost in a mysterious universe without any purpose, which is the way it really is,…
— Richard P. Feynman
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[God says] Discipleship is not limited to what you can comprehend - it must transcend all comprehension. Plunge into the deep waters beyond your own…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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True prayer is done in secret, but this does not rule out the fellowship of prayer altogether, however clearly we may be aware of its…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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The past is important for all the information and wisdom it holds. But you can get lost in it. You've got to learn to keep…
— Lauren Kate
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We are all fools blessed with the knowledge that certain events will come to pass no matter what path we take to get there. The…
— Alethea Kontis
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No one really starts anything new, Mrs. Nemur. Everyone builds on other men's failures. There is nothing really original in science. What each man contributes…
— Daniel Keyes
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People are invariably surprised to hear me say I am both an atheist and an agnostic, as if this somehow weakens my certainty. I usually…
— Dan Barker
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Where did I get it from? Was it by reason that I attained to the knowledge that I must love my neighbour and not throttle…
— Leo Tolstoy
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Knowledge can be a subtle curse. When we learn about the world, we also learn all the reasons why the world cannot be changed. We…
— Jonah Lehrer
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