There is a way in which the collective knowledge of mankind expresses itself, for the finite individual, through mere daily living... a way in which life itself is sheer knowing
Laurens Van Der PostThe really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.
Doris DayTo know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.
Nicolas CopernicusKnowledge is not simply another commodity. On the contrary. Knowledge is never used up. It increases by diffusion and grows by dispersion.
Daniel BoorstinThe ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained.
David BohmI'm afraid I'm not really interested in starting off someone's career and trying to turn a nobody into a someone. All my expertise, and all my recent knowledge, lies at the top end of the sport.
Colin JacksonKnowing is the most profound kind of love, giving someone the gift of knowledge about yourself.
Marsha NormanAs we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible, but more mysterious.
Albert Schweitzer A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.
Carlos CastanedaHis priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof. - Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
J K RowlingThere comes that mysterious meeting in life when someone acknowledges who we are and what we can be, igniting the circuits of our highest potential.
Rusty BerkusAny committee is only as good as the most knowledgeable, determined and vigorous person on it. [and as weak as its weakest link]
Lady JohnsonIf knowledge is power, clandestine knowledge is power squared; it can be withheld, exchanged, and leveraged.
Letty CottinNever mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.
Sandra CareyIgnorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.
Charles DarwinThe apple cannot be stuck back on The Tree of Knowledge; once we begin to see, we are doomed and challenged to seek the strength to see more, not less.
Arthur MillerEducation is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college.
Lillian SmithForeknowledge of the future makes it possible to manipulate both enemies and supporters.
Raymond AronFreedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.
Ronald ReaganPatriotism is voluntary. It is a feeling of loyalty and allegiance that is the result of knowledge and belief. A patriot shows their their patriotism through their actions, by their choice.
Jesse VenturaWisdom 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 Haddon Spurgeon Your morals and general character are strictly inquired into; it is therefore expected that you will improve every leisure moment in the acquirement of knowledge of your profession and you will recollect that a good moral character is essential to your high standing in the Navy.
Franklin Buchananyou want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.
Mao ZedongIf you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it
Margaret FullerA judicious man uses statistics, not to get knowledge, but to save himself from having ignorance foisted upon him.
Thomas CarlyleThose who have no compassion have no wisdom. Knowledge, yes - cleverness, maybe - wisdom, no. A clever mind is not a heart.
Benjamin HoffIt is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
Oliver Wendell HolmesIt is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. [On reading]
Elizabeth HardwickA quality education has the power to transform societies in a single generation, provide children with the protection they need from the hazards of poverty, labor exploitation and disease, and given them the knowledge, skills, and confidence to reach their full potential.
Audrey HepburnMadam, a circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge; it blossoms through the year. And depend on it that they who are so fond of handling the leaves, will long for the fruit at last.
Richard SheridanThe utmost extent of man's knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
Joseph AddisonPleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; but knowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, unlimited in space and indefinite in duration.
De Witt ClintonI am comforted by life's stability, by earth's unchangeableness. What has seemed new and frightening assumes its place in the unfolding of knowledge. It is good to know our universe. What is new is only new to us.
Pearl BuckAll men by nature desire knowledge.
AristotleIt is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
'Pride and Prejudice'
Jane AustenThe interpretation of dreams is the royal road to knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.
Sigmund FreudThe senses collect the surface facts of matter... It was sensation; when memory came, it was experience; when mind acted, it was knowledge; when mind acted on it as knowledge, it was thought.
Ralph Waldo EmersonOnly divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.
Arthur RimbaudIs knowledge knowable? If not, how do we know this?
Woody AllenEven knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance.
Baltasar GracianWe acknowledge and bewail our manifold sins and wickedness, which we, from time to time, most grievously have committed, by thought, word and deed [wedding vows]
Camilla Parker BowlesAnd the fruit of my vanity is shame, and repentance, and the clear knowledge that whatever the world finds pleasing, is but a brief dream.
PetrarchGolf... is the infallible test. The man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge that only God is watching him, and play his ball where it lies, is the man who will serve you faithfully and well.
P G WodehouseReading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
John LockeTrue knowledge lies in knowing how to live.
Baltasar GracianSocrates gave no diplomas or degrees, and would have subjected any disciple who demanded one to a disconcerting catechism on the nature of true knowledge.
G M TrevelyanWhere all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.
John LockeSometimes when a new piece of knowledge comes along you suddenly change your priorities and focus on something completely different instead.
John HartfordThought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel
August HareAll our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than the animals that know nothing
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