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

Zeal will do more than knowledge.
William Hazlitt

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
James Madison

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

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

The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
Socrates

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

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

The knowledge that makes us cherish innocence makes innocence unattainable.
Irving Howe

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

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

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

The 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 Edison

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

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.
Francis Bacon

The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
James Baldwin

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

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 Marshall

All men by nature desire knowledge.
Aristotle

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

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

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

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

The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief.
Sigmund Freud

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

Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.
Alvin Toffler

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

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

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

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

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

Without my knowledge or consent The Edge - made up of out-takes - was released. Even today, it remains a bitter memory.
Shelley Berman

A judicious man uses statistics, not to get knowledge, but to save himself from having ignorance foisted upon him.
Thomas Carlyle

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

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

Science is organized knowledge.
Herbert Spencer

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

And the fruit of my vanity is shame, and repentance, and the clear knowledge that whatever the world finds pleasing, is but a brief dream.
Petrarch

This 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 Lawrence

Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.
Ronald Reagan

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

To 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 Copernicus

Ignorance 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 Darwin

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

Where 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 Milton

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

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

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

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

It 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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