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We must develop knowledge optimization initiatives to leverage our key learnings.
Scott Adams

Knowledge is power if you know it about the right person.
Ethel Mumford

Patriotism 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 Ventura

Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.
Thomas Huxley

The 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 Emerson

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.
Kahlil Gibran

He 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 Johnson

Those who have knowledge, don't predict. Those who predict, don't have knowledge.
Lao Tzu

Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.
George Eliot

Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; and love by love.
Thomas Szasz

Knowledge is not simply another commodity. On the contrary. Knowledge is never used up. It increases by diffusion and grows by dispersion.
Daniel Boorstin

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
Anton Chekhov

Live in the future with which you create your present. Create and exchange and don't forget to acknowledge yourself and others.
Sofia Milos

And I pray thee, loving Jesus, that as Thou hast graciously given me to drink in with delight the words of Thy knowledge, so Thou wouldst mercifully grant me to attain one day to Thee, the fountain of all wisdom and to appear forever before Thy face.
Venerable Bede

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.
Francis Bacon

Pleasure 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 Clinton

We are here and it is now. Further than that all human knowledge is moonshine.
Henry L Mencken

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
Hippocrates

Being 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 Great

Madam, 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 Sheridan

No man's knowledge here can go beyond experience. (An Essay concerning Human Understanding.)
John Locke

All other knowledge is hurtful to him who has not honesty and good-nature
Montaigne

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
Isaac Asimov

It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body.
Marcel Proust

Robin 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 Brown

If intellection and knowledge were mere passion from without, or the bare reception of extraneous and adventitious forms, then no reason could be given at all why a mirror or looking-glass should not understand. [Deep thoughts indeed!]
Ralph Cudworth

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
Imannuel Kant

Sir Ian Blair has made no acknowledgement of any structural deficiencies whatever on his watch.
Melanie Phillips

Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.
Kahlil Gibran

Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment is the treasurer of the one who is wise.
William Penn

His 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 Rowling

I'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 Jackson

My 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 Meir

Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
Imannuel Kant

Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.
Arthur Rimbaud

I 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 Eddington

Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.
John Locke

It 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 Beauvoir

There are many rules of thumb and laws out there of which we still have no knowledge, and as such they are in a real way hidden from us.
Umberto Giordano

There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.
Brigham Young

Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.
Ambrose Bierce

Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college.
Lillian Smith

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.
Kahlil Gibran

A 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 Hepburn

Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.
Alvin Toffler

I do not think that the road to contentment lies in despising what we have not got. Let us acknowledge all good, all delight that the world holds, and be content without it.
George MacDonald

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
Confucius

The 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 Thurber

I certainly feel that the time is not far distant when a knowledge of the principles of diet will be an essential part of one's education. [if the massive marketing behind such things is a success for sure!]
Fannie Farmer



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