975 private quotes tagged knowledge

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

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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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“It is harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge.” — Arnold H. Glasow

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

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

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

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“The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.” — Samuel Butler

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

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

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

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

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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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“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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“All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.” — Leonardo da Vinci

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