975 private quotes tagged knowledge

“Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.” — William Penn

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“All men by nature desire knowledge.” — Aristotle

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“Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.” — Vincent Van Gogh

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“Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.” — Thomas Aquinas

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“We can't have full knowledge all at once. We must start by believing then afterwards we may be led on to master the evidence for ourselves.” — Thomas Aquinas

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“After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.” — Albert Camus

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“Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.” — Plato

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“Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.” — Bertrand Russell

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“He that hath knowledge spareth his words.” — Francis Bacon

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“Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in your seeds.” — Khalil Gibran

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“We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. The state in which we are is sinful, irrespective of guilt.” — Franz Kafka

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“It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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“There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God.” — Aldous Huxley

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“It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes

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“Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.” — Charles Spurgeon

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“It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.” — Josh Billings

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“Knowledge is love and light and vision.” — Helen Keller

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“Where knowledge ends, religion begins.” — Benjamin Disraeli

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“Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.” — Samuel Johnson

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“Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.” — Khalil Gibran

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“Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.” — Leonardo da Vinci

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“Ardor, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.” — Ambrose Bierce

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“Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge.” — Stephen Hawking

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