Knowledge Quotes

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Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others. — Confucius
Seldom was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment. — Joseph Hall
I know a good many men of great learning-that is, men born with an extraordinary eagerness and capacity to acquire knowledge. One and all, they… — H. L. Mencken
I really see no harm which can come of giving our children a little knowledge of physiology. ... The instruction must be real, based upon… — Thomas Huxley
The role of the teacher is to create the conditions for invention rather than provide ready-made knowledge. — Seymour Papert
The seeker says, "I do not know." That takes honesty. The master says, "I do not know." That takes a mystic's mind that knows things… — Anthony de Mello
Wouldn't it be wonderful if we had a world where everybody said, 'We don't know?' The fact is that you're surrounded -God and you don't… — Anthony de Mello
The one self- knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind. — F. H. Bradley
Many people think of knowledge as money, They would like knowledge, but do not want to face the perseverance and self- denial that goes into… — John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn
There's a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside. — Pearl Bailey
Never by reflection, but only by doing is self- knowledge possible to one. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Today secular philosophers call that kind of divine invocation God of the gaps-which comes in handy, because there has never been a shortage of gaps… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
Whenever people have used religious documents to make accurate predictions about our base knowledge of the physical world, they have been famously wrong. — Neil deGrasse Tyson
The period of greatest gain in knowledge and experience is the most difficult period in one's life. — Dalai Lama
No human being, past the thoughtless age of boyhood, will wantonly murder any creature which holds its life by the same tenure that he does. — Henry David Thoreau
Of all the frictional resistances, the one that most retards human movement is ignorance, what Buddha called 'the greatest evil in the world.' The friction… — Nikola Tesla
The fact that no limits exist to the destructiveness of this weapon [the 'Super', i.e. the hydrogen bomb] makes its very existence and the knowledge… — Enrico Fermi
When you are doing things together, you are inside the collective mind, and share psychic knowledge with each other. That is how you become one. — Dharma Mittra
I am only here to share my knowledge with others and to help them make rapid progress on the path of yoga. — Dharma Mittra
..the self-knowledge that I am talking about is concrete, verifiable and is tangible like science itself and completely understandable in rational terms. — Nirmala Srivastava
Economic development over the past two centuries has taken most of humanity from lives that were brutal, ignorant and short, to personal health and security,… — Ross Garnaut
Don't help me or serve me, but let me see it once, because I need it. Don't work for my happiness, my brothers-show me yours-show… — Ayn Rand
Each of us must rededicate ourselves to serving the common good. We are a community. Our individual Fates are linked; our futures intertwined; and if… — Jimmy Carter
Each of us in our own way can try to spread compassion into people's hearts. Western civilizations these days place great importance on filling the… — Dalai Lama
In this time of globalization, with all its advantages, the poor are the most vulnerable to having their traditions, relationships and knowledge and skills ignored… — James Wolfensohn

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