975 private quotes tagged knowledge

“A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.” — Plato

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“The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.” — Blaise Pascal

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“Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well but their manners should be of the greatest concern.” — R. Buckminster Fuller

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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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“Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.” — Carl Sagan

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“Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.” — Lord Byron

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“If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.” — Henry Ford

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“There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.” — Bertrand Russell

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“The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.” — John F. Kennedy

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“The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.” — Khalil Gibran

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“All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God.” — Voltaire

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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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“Knowledge is true opinion.” — Plato

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“We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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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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“Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.” — Plato

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“International relationships are preordained to be clumsy gestures based on imperfect knowledge.” — Rebecca West

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“Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing.” — Konrad Lorenz

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“The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.” — James Madison

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“The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.” — Aristotle

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“The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love.” — Luther Burbank

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“Someday in the distant cyborg future, when our internal and external memories fully merge, we may come to possess infinite knowledge. But that's not the same thing as wisdom.” — Joshua Foer

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“Education, whatever else it should or should not be, must be an inoculation against the poisons of life and an adequate equipment in knowledge and skill for meeting the chances of life.” — Havelock Ellis

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“While knowledge may provide useful point of reference, it cannot become a force to guide the future.” — Herbie Hancock

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“Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.” — John Holt

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