Knowledge Quotes - Page 10

• Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

  William Cowper

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Not only is there an art in knowing a thing, but also a certain art in teaching it.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Art, Teaching, Knowing

  "De Legibus (On the Laws)". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Book II, Chapter 19), circa 52 BC.

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• We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.

  H. L. Mencken

  Inspirational, Drinking, Religion

  "A Mencken chrestomathy". Book by Henry Louis Mencken, 1949.

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• Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Wise, Fashion, Ignorance

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• The true method of knowledge is experiment.

  William Blake

  Experience, Action, Method

  William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.1, Univ of California Press

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• Students who have attended my [medical] lectures may remember that I try not only to teach them what we know, but also to realise how little this is: in every direction we seem to travel but a very short way before we are brought to a stop; our eyes are opened to see that our path is beset with doubts, and that even our best-made knowledge comes but too soon to an end.

  Clifford Allbutt

  Eye, Science, Doubt

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• We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us, and the more we gain, the more is our desire; the more we see, the more we are capable of seeing.

  Maria Mitchell

  Inspirational, Change, Educational

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• Scientific discovery and scientific knowledge have been achieved only by those who have gone in pursuit of it without any practical purpose whatsoever in view.

  Max Planck

  Science, Discovery, Views

  Max Planck (1932). “Where is Science Going?”

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• Nobody knows enough, but many know too much.

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  Too Much, Enough, Nobody Knows

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  One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

  James Russell Lowell

  Educational, Understanding, Experience

  James Russell Lowell (1870). “Among My Books”, p.223

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• Some people read so little they have rickets of the mind.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Book, Reading

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from May 11, 2017

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• It is disgraceful to live as a stranger in one's country, and be an alien in any matter that affects our welfare.

  Aldus Manutius

  Country, Matter, Aliens

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• Revival occurs as a group of people who, on the whole, think they already know the gospel discover they do not really or fully know it, and by embracing the gospel they cross over into living faith.

  Timothy Keller

  Christian, Thinking, Discovery

  "Shaped by the Gospel: Doing Balanced, Gospel-Centered Ministry in Your City".

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• Diffused knowledge immortalizes itself.

  James Mackintosh

  Self Knowledge

  James Mackintosh (1791). “Vindiciae Gallicae”, p.199

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• A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Life, Education

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• Faith in the biblical sense is substantive, based on the knowledge that the One in whom that faith is placed has proven that He is worthy of that trust. In its essence, faith is a confidence in the person of Jesus Christ and in His power, so that even when His power does not serve my end, my confidence in Him remains because of who He is.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Bible, God, Faith

  FaceBook post by Ravi Zacharias from Jul 19, 2015

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• Knowledge is love and light and vision.

  Helen Keller

  Christian, Education, Light

  Helen Keller (2016). “The Story of My Life”, p.16, Om Books International

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• Great minds are always feared by lesser minds.

  Dan Brown

  Mind, Great Minds

  Dan Brown (2010). “The Lost Symbol Illustrated edition”, p.613, Random House

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• The love of knowledge is a kind of madness.

  C. S. Lewis

  Love, Mad, Insanity

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Out of the Silent Planet”, p.56, Simon and Schuster

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• We are in fact convinced that if we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself. It seems, to judge from the argument, that the wisdom which we desire and upon which we profess to have set our hearts will be attainable only when we are dead and not in our lifetime.

  Socrates

  Wisdom, Heart, Judging

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• Knowledge comes by taking things apart, analysis. But wisdom comes by putting things together.

  John Alexander Morrison

  Wisdom, Science, Together

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• 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

  Wisdom, Light, Source

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• Yet still, there are those special secret moments in our lives, when we smile unexpectedly-when all our forces are resolved. A woman can often see these moments in us, better than a man, better than we ourselves, even. When we know these moments, when we smile, when we are not on guard at all-these are the moments when our most important forces show themselves; whatever it is you are doing at such a moment, hold on to it, repeat it-for that certain smile is the best knowledge that we ever have of what our hidden forces are, and where they lie, and how they can be loosed.

  Christopher Alexander

  Lying, Men, Secret

  Christopher Alexander (1979). “The Timeless Way of Building”, p.52, New York : Oxford University Press

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• The superior student listens to the Way and follows it closely. The average student listens to the Way and follows some and some not. The lesser student listens to the Way and laughs out loud. If there were no laughter it would not be the Way.

  Laozi

  Laughter, Average, Laughing

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• There's no such thing as knowledge management;
  there are only knowledgeable people.
  Information only becomes knowledge
  in the hands of someone
  who knows what to do with it.

  Peter Drucker

  Hands, People, Information

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