One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer.
Lord ByronThe most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force.
Andre MauroisEvery great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.
Thomas HuxleyImagination is more important than knowledge.
Albert EinsteinThe animals that depend on instinct have an inherent knowledge of the laws of economics and of how to apply them; Man, with his powers of reason, has reduced economics to the level of a farce which is at once funnier and more tragic than Tobacco Road.
James ThurberHis 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 RowlingNobody spends somebody else's money as carefully as he spends his own. Nobody uses somebody else's resources as carefully as he uses his own. So if you want efficiency and effectiveness, if you want knowledge to be properly utilized, you have to do it through the means of private property.
Milton FriedmanBecause psychologists have been able to discover, exactly as in a slow-motion picture, the way the human creature acquires knowledge and habits, the normal child has been vastly helped by what the retarded have taught us.
Pearl BuckMusic is at once the product of feeling and knowledge.
Alban BergKnowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; and love by love.
Thomas SzaszPain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.
Kahlil GibranThe 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 MillerFor love is ever the beginning of Knowledge, as fire is of light.
Thomas CarlyleWe must develop knowledge optimization initiatives to leverage our key learnings.
Scott AdamsKnowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.
Peter F DruckerA man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.
Carlos CastanedaWe do know, of certain knowledge, that (Bin Laden) is either in Afghanistan or in some other country or dead.
Donald RumsfeldOnly divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.
Arthur RimbaudApothegms form a short cut to much knowledge
Thomas HoodThose who have no compassion have no wisdom. Knowledge, yes - cleverness, maybe - wisdom, no. A clever mind is not a heart.
Benjamin HoffThe interpretation of dreams is the royal road to knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.
Sigmund FreudWithout my knowledge or consent The Edge - made up of out-takes - was released. Even today, it remains a bitter memory.
Shelley BermanZeal will do more than knowledge.
William HazlittThe great desire of this age is for a doctrine which may serve to condense our knowledge, guide our researches, and shape our lives, so that conduct may really be the consequence of belief
G H LewesGetting along with men isn't what's truly important. The vital knowledge is how to get along with one man.
Phyllis McGinleyEach department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.
Auguste ComteKnowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.
Jacob BronowskiBeing away from home gave me the chance to look at myself with a jaundiced eye. I learned not to be ashamed of a real hunger for knowledge, something I had always tried to hide, and I came home glad to start in here again with a love for Europe that I am afraid will never leave me.
Jackie KennedyWe must acknowledge there are good imams and bad imams.
David DavisOf all the stages in a woman's life, none is so dangerous as the period between her acknowledgement of a passion for a man, and the day set apart for her nuptials.
Hugh KellyWisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.
Thomas J WatsonThe ability to think straight, some knowledge of the past, some vision of the future, some urge to fit that service into the well-being of the community - these are the most vital things that education must try to produce.
Virginia GildersleeveAnd the fruit of my vanity is shame, and repentance, and the clear knowledge that whatever the world finds pleasing, is but a brief dream.
PetrarchOur knowledge is greater perhaps than we could have imagined, and all the time we realise how much more there is to know.
James GibsonWisdom 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 I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions.
PlutarchI ask you to look both ways. For the road to a knowledge of the stars leads through the atom; and important knowledge of the atom has been reached through the stars.
Sir Arthur EddingtonThe knowledge that makes us cherish innocence makes innocence unattainable.
Irving HoweA manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.
Peter F DruckerKnowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
George EliotTechnology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge.
Daniel BoorstinThe advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
James MadisonThe stomach is the only part of man which can be fully satisfied. The yearning of man's brain for new knowledge and experience and for more pleasant and comfortable surroundings never can be completely met. It is an appetite which cannot be appeased
Thomas EdisonGood nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.
Henry Ward Beecher Our belief in any particular natural law cannot have a safer basis than our unsuccessful critical attempts to refute it.
[Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge]
Karl PopperA 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 HepburnThe saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
Isaac AsimovThere taught us how to live; and (oh! too high The price for knowledge) taught us how to die.
Thomas TickellSelf-knowledge comes from knowing other men.
Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheEven knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance.
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