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Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Albert Einstein

Is knowledge knowable? If not, how do we know this?
Woody Allen

Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.
William James

To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.
Kong Fu Zi

Zeal will do more than knowledge.
William Hazlitt

As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible, but more mysterious.
Albert Schweitzer

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

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

All wish for knowledge, but no one wishes to pay the price of it
Juvenal

The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.
Doris Day

Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.
Alvin Toffler

Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.
Jacob Bronowski

If knowledge is power, clandestine knowledge is power squared; it can be withheld, exchanged, and leveraged.
Letty Cottin

Socrates 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 Trevelyan

The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.
Frank Herbert

Curiosity, 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 Hume

No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.
Alfred North Whitehead

Wisdom 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

When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.
Herbert Spencer

The 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 Maurois

Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel
August Hare

From the level of pragmatic, everyday knowledge to modern natural science, the knowledge of nature derives from man's primary coming to grips with nature; at the same time it reacts back upon the system of social labour and stimulates its development.
Jurgen Habermas

The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.
Stephen Ambrose

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 only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.
Henry Ford

Nobody 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 Friedman

For love is ever the beginning of Knowledge, as fire is of light.
Thomas Carlyle

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

A 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 Huxley

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

Later, however, I came to recognize the objective nature of these dreams or fantasies ... Thus it was that I gradually came to acknowledge that such fantasies or dreams are neither meaningless nor purely arbitrary but rather convey a sort of 'second meaning' of the terms applied.
Wolfgang Pauli

The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
James Madison

Most people of knowledge say it's the biggest single problem facing the economic free world [talking about deficits that is]
David Hartman

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

Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.
Josh Billings

Knowing is the most profound kind of love, giving someone the gift of knowledge about yourself.
Marsha Norman

However 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 Armstrong

If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?
Thomas Huxley

The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.
Sigmund Freud

Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.
Orison Swett Marden

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

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

All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than the animals that know nothing
Maurice Maeterlinck

Of 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 Kelly

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 proud that he has learned so much;
Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.
William Cowper

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

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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 Buchanan



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