975 private quotes tagged knowledge

“Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge, which is power; religion gives man wisdom, which is control.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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“Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.” — Thomas J. Watson

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“How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in the truth.” — Sophocles

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“The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.” — Francis Bacon

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“No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt

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“Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Knowledge and human power are synonymous.” — Francis Bacon

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“Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.” — H. G. Wells

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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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“Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.” — Aldous Huxley

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“We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.” — Michel de Montaigne

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“The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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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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“Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.” — Ambrose Bierce

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“The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.” — Henry Ward Beecher

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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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“Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.” — Samuel Johnson

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“Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.” — Albert Einstein

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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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“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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“Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.” — Khalil Gibran

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“Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.” — Alfred Tennyson

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“The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge.” — Ambrose Bierce

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“The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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