975 private quotes tagged knowledge

“One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises.” — Chanakya

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“If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.” — Isaac Asimov

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“To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.” — Nicolaus Copernicus

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“Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.” — Peter Drucker

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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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“The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance.” — Herodotus

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“Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.” — Isaac Asimov

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“Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.” — Will Durant

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“Cherish that which is within you, and shut off that which is without for much knowledge is a curse.” — Zhuangzi

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“Without knowledge action is useless and knowledge without action is futile.” — Abu Bakr

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“Knowledge is like money: to be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in quantity and, hopefully, in value.” — Louis L'Amour

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“Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.” — Horace Mann

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“Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.” — G. I. Gurdjieff

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“We have today a fairly thorough knowledge of the early Greco-Roman period because our motivations are the same.” — Arthur Erickson

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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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“I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.” — Immanuel Kant

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“The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge.” — Meister Eckhart

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“Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance.” — Baltasar Gracian

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“We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.” — John Archibald Wheeler

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“Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.” — Peter Drucker

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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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“If I have enough ego to say I'm a writer, a director, a producer, and an actor, I should have the energy and the knowledge to write a scene for this great actor named Henry Fonda and direct him in it and have it work.” — Peter Fonda

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“Knowledge about the economy, ideas about capitalism and government, the future of the world and geopolitics were things I was never really interested in.” — Shia LaBeouf

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“But, I think it's great to be able to work with established directors, and then also first-timers. I feel like you learn from both of them, but then you can go and share your knowledge with each of them. That's really fantastic!” — Juno Temple

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“Hitherto I have courted Truth with a kind of Romantick Passion, in spite of all Difficulties and Discouragements: for knowledge is thought so unnecessary an Accomplishment for a Woman, that few will give themselves the Trouble to assist us in the Attainment of it.” — Mary Astell

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