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Knowledge Quotes by Tom Stoppard
- It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.
- We must be born with an intuition of mortality. Before we know the word for it. Before we know that there are words. Out we…
- A scholar's business is to add to what is known. That is all. But it is capable of giving the very greatest satisfaction, because knowledge…
- If knowledge isn't self-knowledge it isn't doing much, mate. Is the universe expanding? Is it contracting? Is it standing on one leg and singing 'When…
- 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…
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- We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that. — J. J. Abrams
- Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of… — Aristophanes
- Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we… — Aristotle
- The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching. — Aristotle
- Salvation means knowing the truth. We do not become anything; we are what we are. Salvation [comes] by faith and not by… — Swami Vivekananda
- Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach. — Aristotle
- All men by nature desire knowledge. — Aristotle
- The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading. — David Bailey