The 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 GildersleeveIt is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. [On reading]
Elizabeth HardwickScience is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.
Thomas HobbesHe 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 JohnsonAs we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible, but more mysterious.
Albert Schweitzer Knowledge is not simply another commodity. On the contrary. Knowledge is never used up. It increases by diffusion and grows by dispersion.
Daniel BoorstinWisdom 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 Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.
Arthur RimbaudIt is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.
Simone De BeauvoirAll our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
Imannuel KantKnowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.
Josh BillingsA manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.
Peter F DruckerA serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy.
Camille Paglia I 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 MarshallWe are here and it is now. Further than that all human knowledge is moonshine.
Henry L MenckenGetting along with men isn't what's truly important. The vital knowledge is how to get along with one man.
Phyllis McGinleyIf a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?
Thomas HuxleyCuriosity, or the love of knowledge, has a very limited influence, and requires youth, leisure education, genius and example to make it govern any person
David HumeIn much knowledge there is also much grief.
Queen Marie Of RomaniaMadam, 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 knowledge of mathematical things is almost innate in us.
Roger BaconIf knowledge is power, clandestine knowledge is power squared; it can be withheld, exchanged, and leveraged.
Letty CottinKnowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.
William JamesKnowledge 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.
Kahlil GibranThe person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.
Kahlil GibranBeing goal directed is not enough to conquer your enemy. To achieve your goal you need to know and be able to utilize all the resources available to you. This includes the knowledge of all those available to you as well as using the physical resources and those who control them.
Frederick The GreatWe must, however, acknowledge as it seems to me, that a man with all his noble qualities... still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.
Charles DarwinOne of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer.
Lord ByronForeknowledge 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 ReaganTrue knowledge lies in knowing how to live.
Baltasar GracianNot ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North WhiteheadWe 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 CharlesI would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions.
PlutarchTo know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.
Kong Fu ZiPositivism: A philosophy that denies our knowledge of the Real and affirms our ignorance of the Apparent. Its longest exponent is Comte, its broadest Mill and its thickest Spencer.
Ambrose BierceThe knowledge that makes us cherish innocence makes innocence unattainable.
Irving HoweOur knowledge is greater perhaps than we could have imagined, and all the time we realise how much more there is to know.
James GibsonMaturity is sensitivity to human suffering and it seems that the more mature humanity becomes in terms of knowledge and age, the less mature we are in other ways.
Julius GordonPerplexity is the beginning of knowledge.
Kahlil GibranBetween 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 JohnsonThe mines of knowledge are often laid bare by the hazel-wand of chance.
Martin TupperA 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 rumour.
Aldous HuxleyRobin Cook's mastery of the House of Commons was acknowledged on all sides and his incisive mind, forensic skills and formidable and wide ranging debating prowess were seen by the public very clearly.
Gordon BrownAll other knowledge is hurtful to him who has not honesty and good-nature
MontaigneThe 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 MauroisIt is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.
Imannuel KantAnd the fruit of my vanity is shame, and repentance, and the clear knowledge that whatever the world finds pleasing, is but a brief dream.
PetrarchMy knowledge of gardening has increased with age, although I'm not as active with the spade and fork as I used to be.
Terence ConranLive in the future with which you create your present. Create and exchange and don't forget to acknowledge yourself and others.
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