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In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.
– George Herbert
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Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give lustre, and many more people see than weigh.
– Herodotus
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The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance.
– Herodotus
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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
– Abraham Joshua Heschel
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There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.
– Napoleon Hill
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We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about.
– Eric Hoffer
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Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.
– Horace
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The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.
– Sam Houston
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A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.
– Aldous Huxley
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Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.
– Aldous Huxley
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If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?
– Thomas Henry Huxley
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The medieval university looked backwards; it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge. The modern university looks forward, and is a factory of new knowledge.
– Thomas Henry Huxley
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The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.
– Moses Hadas
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It's hard to decide how to match words to music. It's not like it's twice the work. It's always difficult for me to explain to the composer what I'm looking for. I'm not a professional; I lack even basic knowledge about writing music.
– Ayumi Hamasaki
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The ultimate ground of faith and knowledge is confidence in God.
– Charles Hodge
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Aging is an inevitable process. I surely wouldn't want to grow younger. The older you become, the more you know; your bank account of knowledge is much richer.
– William M. Holden
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The knowledge that makes us cherish innocence makes innocence unattainable.
– Irving Howe
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The aim of education is the knowledge not of facts but of values.
– William Ralph Inge
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All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.
– Juvenal
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All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
– Immanuel Kant
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Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.
– Immanuel Kant
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It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge that begins with experience.
– Immanuel Kant
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I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House-with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.
– John F. Kennedy
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It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.
– Joseph Wood Krutch
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A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality.
– Milan Kundera
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One of the things that makes our military the best in the world is the certain knowledge of each soldier, sailor, airman, and Marine that they can always count on their comrades should they need help - that they will never be abandoned.
– Jon Kyl
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There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride, they have yielded to the perennial temptation.
– Walter Lippmann
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No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
– John Locke
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Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
– John Locke
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The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.
– John Locke
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The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
– John Locke
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Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing.
– Konrad Lorenz
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If we would have new knowledge, we must get a whole world of new questions.
– Susanne K. Langer
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Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize.
– Christopher Lasch
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The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners.
– Thomas Babington Macaulay
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All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.
– Maurice Maeterlinck
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An excessive knowledge of Marxism is a sign of a misspent youth.
– John McCarthy
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Knowledge is that possession that no misfortune can destroy, no authority can revoke, and no enemy can control. This makes knowledge the greatest of all freedoms.
– Bryant H. McGill
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Getting along with men isn't what's truly important. The vital knowledge is how to get along with a man, one man.
– Phyllis McGinley
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In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.
– Henry Miller
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We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us, and the more we gain, the more is our desire; the more we see, the more we are capable of seeing.
– Maria Mitchell
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If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind?
– Maria Montessori
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I served the famous professors and scholars, and eventually they learned that the Reverend Moon is superior to them. Even Nobel laureate academics who thought they were at the center of knowledge are as nothing in front of me.
– Sun Myung Moon
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As knowledge increases, wonder deepens.
– Charles Morgan
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Every branch of human knowledge, if traced up to its source and final principles, vanishes into mystery.
– Arthur Machen
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The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.
– Gerard De Nerval
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The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
– Anais Nin
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I don't know what is better than the work that is given to the actor-to teach the human heart the knowledge of itself.
– Sir Laurence Olivier
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In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.
– J. Robert Oppenheimer
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A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy.
– Camille Paglia
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Seldom ever was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.
– Wendell Phillips
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Knowledge is true opinion.
– Plato
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Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.
– Karl Popper
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They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.
– Terry Pratchett
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It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body.
– Marcel Proust
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I agree completely with my son James when he says 'Internet is like electricity. The latter lights up everything, while the former lights up knowledge'.
– Kerry Packer
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The most wonderful study of mankind is man. Relieving human suffering and diffusing universal knowledge is humanitarian.
– Daniel D. Palmer
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Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; an argument an exchange of ignorance.
– Robert Quillen
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The channels of intuitive knowledge are opened according to the intensity of individual need.
– Jane Roberts
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Basically I was a rebel growing up. I got kicked out of six schools. But I don't think that it makes you less of an intellect. You know, if you ever crave knowledge, there's always a library.
– Michelle Rodriguez
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Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.
– Jean Jacques Rousseau
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Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.
– Jean Jacques Rousseau
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The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts.
– Bertrand Russell
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Reason is an action of the mind; knowledge is a possession of the mind; but faith is an attitude of the person. It means you are prepared to stake yourself on something being so.
– Michael Ramsey
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This life that has been given to us as a gift, as such a precious gift. To really try to understand it, really try to recognize it, is the greatest meditation. Through the media of this Knowledge we can tap into our inner sources that are so beautiful.
– Prem Rawal
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Love, work, and knowledge are the wellsprings of our lives, they should also govern it.
– Wilhelm Reich
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Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.
– Mary Caroline Richards
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The best theology is rather a divine life than a divine knowledge.
– Jeremy Taylor
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The animals that depend on instinct have an inherent knowledge of the laws of economics and of how to apply them; Man, with his powers of reason, has reduced economics to the level of a farce which is at once funnier and more tragic than Tobacco Road.
– James Thurber
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Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.
– Thucydides
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Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are not.
– Raoul Vaneigem
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I have discovered in 20 years of moving around a ballpark, that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price of the seats.
– Bill Veeck
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It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.
– Voltaire
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Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.
– Simone Weil
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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
– H. G. Wells
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Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
– Alfred North Whitehead
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Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.
– Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Golf... is the infallible test. The man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge that only God is watching him, and play his ball where it lies, is the man who will serve you faithfully and well.
– P. G. Wodehouse
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It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill.
– Wilbur Wright
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Knowledge is soon changed, then lost in the mist, an echo half-heard.
– Gene Wolfe
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Later, I realized that the mission had to end in a let-down because the real barrier wasn't in the sky but in our knowledge and experience of supersonic flight.
– Chuck Yeager
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If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.
– Mao Zedong
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To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.
– Kong Fu Zi
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The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
– James Baldwin
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It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.
– Enrico Fermi
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The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.
– Elbert Hubbard
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Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.
– Aldous Huxley
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Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
– Samuel Johnson
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We are here and it is now. Further than that all human knowledge is moonshine.
– H. L. Mencken
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Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
– Plato
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The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
– Herbert Spencer
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It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance; for it requires knowledge to perceive it and therefore he that can perceive it hath it not.
– Jeremy Taylor
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Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
– William S. Burroughs
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Your aim will be knowledge and wisdom, not the reflected glamour of fame.
– Abbott L. Lowell
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You should not ask questions without knowledge.
– W. Edwards Deming
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You make knowledge relevant to life and you make it important for children to learn things that will really relate to things going on in their lives, and not abstract.
– Talib Kweli
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You have already disarmed my men without my knowledge, are their arms to be returned or not?
– Zebulon Pike
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You go to college not only for the latest knowledge but also to meet people from different backgrounds. That's the genius of the American higher-education system compared with the Europeans'. We don't simply skim the elite.
– Donna Shalala
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You don't have to be a brain surgeon to be a valuable person. You become valuable because of the knowledge that you have. And that doesn't mean you won't fail sometimes. The important thing is to keep trying.
– Benjamin Carson
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You cannot simply put something new into a place. You have to absorb what you see around you, what exists on the land, and then use that knowledge along with contemporary thinking to interpret what you see.
– Tadao Ando
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