Knowledge Quotes
8542 Knowledge quotes by 3918 unique authors
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For the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house. They may allow us to temporarily beat him at his own game, but they will…
— Audre Lorde
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And suddenly, just like that, hope became knowledge. I was going to win. It was just a matter of when.
— Khaled Hosseini
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Keep the extent of your abilities unknown.The wise man does not allow his knowledge and abilities to be sounded to the bottom, if he desires…
— Baltasar Gracian
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My desire for knowledge is intermittent; but my desire to bathe my head in atmospheres unknown to my feet is perennial and constant. The highest…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Now she had a fumbling knowledge that, had she ever understood Ashley, she would never have loved him; had she ever understood Rhett, she would…
— Margaret Mitchell
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For a moment I had a strange intuition that just this, and in a real, profound sense, is life; and perhaps happiness even - love…
— Erich Maria Remarque
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People parted, years passed, they met again- and the meeting proved no reunion, offered no warm memories, only the acid knowledge that time had passed…
— Jacqueline Susann
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we are such inward secret creatures, that inwardness the most amazing thing about us, even more amazing than our reason. but we cannot just walk…
— Iris Murdoch
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There comes a time in life when you know what you like and have to make up your mind to like what you know, or…
— Vincent Price
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Habit is the intersection of knowledge (what to do), skill (how to do), and desire (want to do).
— Stephen Covey
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The vast distances that separate the stars are providential. Beings and worlds are quarantined from one another. The quarantine is lifted only for those with…
— Carl Sagan
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How deluded we sometimes are by the clear notions we get out of books. They make us think that we really understand things of which…
— Thomas Merton
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Knowledge kills action; action requires the veils of illusion.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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I love you. As the same value, as the same expression, with the same pride and the same meaning as I love my work, my…
— Ayn Rand
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I sold my soul for knowledge of the future, only to have that very pact render me forever ignorant (Gerald Tarrant).
— C.S. Friedman
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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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