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Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge.
Daniel Boorstin

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

Knowledge is going to make you stronger.
Avery Brooks

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

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

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

It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.
Imannuel Kant

The mines of knowledge are often laid bare by the hazel-wand of chance.
Martin Tupper

Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.
Thomas Hobbes

I agree completely with my son James when he says 'Internet is like electricity. The latter lights up everything, while the former lights up knowledge'.
Kerry Packer

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

Pedantry is the dotage of knowledge
Holbrook Jackson

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

Acknowledgement, and celebration, of mystery probably constitutes the most consistent theme of my poetry.
Denise Levertov

A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.
Carlos Castaneda

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

We do know, of certain knowledge, that (Bin Laden) is either in Afghanistan or in some other country or dead.
Donald Rumsfeld

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

There 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 Berkus

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

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

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

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

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

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.
Francis Bacon

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

There is a self-satisfied dogmatism with which mankind at each period of its history cherishes the delusion of the finality of existing modes of knowledge.
Alfred North Whitehead

Because 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 Buck

When it [knowledge[ enters electronic space, it seems equally natural to surrender it.
Doug Brent

Science is organized knowledge.
Herbert Spencer

In much knowledge there is also much grief.
Queen Marie Of Romania

Vulgarized knowledge characteristically gives birth to a feeling that everything is understandable and explained. It is like a system of bridges built over chasms. One can travel boldly ahead over these bridges, ignoring the chasms. It is forbidden to look down into them; but that, alas, does not alter the fact that they exist.
Czeslaw Milosz

Getting along with men isn't what's truly important. The vital knowledge is how to get along with one man.
Phyllis McGinley

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

We 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 Charles

The utmost extent of man's knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
Joseph Addison

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

There 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 Post

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

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

A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.
Peter F Drucker

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

Ability in a man is knowledge which emanates from divine light
Zoroaster

Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.
Sydney Harris

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

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

Between 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 Johnson

Any committee is only as good as the most knowledgeable, determined and vigorous person on it. [and as weak as its weakest link]
Lady Johnson

One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer.
Lord Byron

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



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