975 private quotes tagged knowledge

“I feel like 35. At 35 you're old enough to know something and young enough to look forward to what you can do with the knowledge. So I stayed at 35!” — Michael Caine

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“It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.” — Carl Friedrich Gauss

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“Knowledge is a beautiful thing, but there are a few things I wish I didn't know.” — Susan Orlean

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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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“True, some land was bought by a few Cabinet Ministers. They bought the land. No minister, to my knowledge acquired land which was meant for resettlement.” — Robert Mugabe

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“If in preaching the gospel you substitute your knowledge of the way of salvation for confidence in the power of the gospel, you hinder people from getting to reality.” — Oswald Chambers

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“The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.” — Laurence Sterne

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“What does mysticism really mean? It means the way to attain knowledge. It's close to philosophy, except in philosophy you go horizontally while in mysticism you go vertically.” — Elie Wiesel

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“In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.” — George Herbert

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“Sin, guilt, neurosis they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.” — Henry Miller

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“Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.” — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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“Knowledge is not eating, and we cannot expect to devour and possess what we mean. Knowledge is recognition of something absent it is a salutation, not an embrace.” — George Santayana

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“With our knowledge of modern-day genetics, we realize that it was possible for God to place the potential for all people throughout history into the genes of Adam and Eve when He created them.” — Walter Lang

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“When you deal with a person who's experiencing dementia, you can see where they're struggling with knowledge. You can see what they forget completely, what they forget but they know what they once knew. You can tell how they're trying to remember.” — Walter Mosley

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“There are in fact two things, science and opinion the former begets knowledge, the later ignorance.” — Hippocrates

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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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“There is a general knowledge that I am multi-dimensional, that when you are creative you do a lot of things.” — Suzanne Somers

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“All science requires mathematics. The knowledge of mathematical things is almost innate in us. This is the easiest of sciences, a fact which is obvious in that no one's brain rejects it for laymen and people who are utterly illiterate know how to count and reckon.” — Roger Bacon

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“Ignorance is never better than knowledge.” — Enrico Fermi

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“To those who have chosen the profession of medicine, a knowledge of chemistry, and of some branches of natural history, and, indeed, of several other departments of science, affords useful assistance.” — Charles Babbage

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“Knowledge fills a large brain it merely inflates a small one.” — Sydney J. Harris

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“Effective use of Braille is as important to the blind as independent mobility, knowledge in the use of adaptive technology, and the core belief that equality, opportunity and security are truly possible for all people who are blind.” — Bob Ney

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“What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.” — Georg C. Lichtenberg

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“Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.” — David Ben-Gurion

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“The utmost extent of man's knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.” — Joseph Addison

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