Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.
Orison Swett MardenZeal will do more than knowledge.
William HazlittKnowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
James MadisonScience is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.
Thomas HobbesKnowing is the most profound kind of love, giving someone the gift of knowledge about yourself.
Marsha NormanThe only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
SocratesAll our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
Imannuel KantAny committee is only as good as the most knowledgeable, determined and vigorous person on it. [and as weak as its weakest link]
Lady JohnsonThe knowledge that makes us cherish innocence makes innocence unattainable.
Irving HoweKnowledge is power if you know it about the right person.
Ethel MumfordLive in the future with which you create your present. Create and exchange and don't forget to acknowledge yourself and others.
Sofia MilosAbility in a man is knowledge which emanates from divine light
ZoroasterThe 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 EdisonThe mines of knowledge are often laid bare by the hazel-wand of chance.
Martin TupperKnowledge and human power are synonymous.
Francis BaconThe price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
James BaldwinBetween falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.
Samuel JohnsonI would have thought that the knowledge that you are going to leapt upon by half a dozen congratulatory, but sweaty team-mate would be inducement not to score a goal.
Arthur MarshallAll men by nature desire knowledge.
AristotleThere 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 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 ThurberFor love is ever the beginning of Knowledge, as fire is of light.
Thomas CarlyleKnowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
George EliotThe more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief.
Sigmund FreudAll other knowledge is hurtful to him who has not honesty and good-nature
MontaigneKnowledge is the most democratic source of power.
Alvin TofflerKnowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.
Sydney HarrisHe who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.
Samuel JohnsonMadam, 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 SheridanHowever high we climb in the pursuit of knowledge we shall still see heights above us, and the more we extend our view, the more conscious we shall be of the immensity which lies beyond.
William George ArmstrongThe saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
Isaac AsimovWithout my knowledge or consent The Edge - made up of out-takes - was released. Even today, it remains a bitter memory.
Shelley BermanA judicious man uses statistics, not to get knowledge, but to save himself from having ignorance foisted upon him.
Thomas CarlyleKnowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.
William JamesMost people of knowledge say it's the biggest single problem facing the economic free world [talking about deficits that is]
David HartmanScience is organized knowledge.
Herbert SpencerThe beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.
Frank HerbertAnd the fruit of my vanity is shame, and repentance, and the clear knowledge that whatever the world finds pleasing, is but a brief dream.
PetrarchThis is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten.
D H LawrenceFreedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.
Ronald ReaganThere 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 BerkusTo 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 CopernicusIgnorance 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 DarwinWhen a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.
Herbert SpencerWhere there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions; for opinions in good men is but knowledge in the making.
John MiltonWe 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]
Prince CharlesEducation is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college.
Lillian SmithThe utmost extent of man's knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
Joseph AddisonMy delegation cannot refrain from speaking on this question-we who have such an intimate knowledge of boxcars and of deportations to unknown destinations that we cannot be silent
Golda MeirIt is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. [On reading]
Elizabeth Hardwick
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