Knowledge Quotes - Page 5

• The only source of knowledge is experience.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, God

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• We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Education, Work, Stupid

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• The less people know, the more stubbornly they know it.

  Rajneesh

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Ignorance

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• One of the ways to learn is to know when you're making failures.

  Robert Genn

  Way, Knows

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• Belief is not the beginning of knowledge - it is the end.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Belief, Ends

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• He who thinks he knows, doesn't know. He who knows that he doesn't know, knows.

  Joseph Campbell

  Ignorance, Thinking, Limits

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.65, Anchor

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• He who repeats what he does not understand is no better than an ass that is loaded with books.

  Khalil Gibran

  Book, Doe, Ass

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

  Albert Schweitzer

  Learning, Intelligence, Mysterious

  Albert Schweitzer (1984). “The Words of Albert Schweitzer”

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• It has long been recognized that an essential element in protecting human rights was a widespread knowledge among the population of what their rights are and how they can be defended.

  Boutros Boutros-Ghali

  Rights, Long, Essentials

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• It is not enough to have knowledge; one must apply it. It is not enough to have wishes; one must also accomplish it.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Wish, Enough, Accomplish

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• The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.

  Elizabeth Hardwick

  Education, Reading, Passion

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• Seeking knowledge at an Young age is like engraving on a stone.

  Hasan of Basra

  Education, Wisdom, Islamic

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• When the student is ready the teacher will appear.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Education, Wisdom

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• Science does not mean an idle resting upon a body of certain knowledge; it means unresting endeavor and continually progressing development toward an end which the poetic intuition may apprehend, but which the intellect can never fully grasp.

  Max Planck

  Mean, Science, Intuition

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• Nature has given us the seeds of knowledge, not knowledge itself.

  Seneca the Younger

  Nature, Given, Seeds

  "Epistolæ Ad Lucilium", CXX in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 419-423), 1922.

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• You must not know too much or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and watercraft; a certain free-margin , or even vagueness - ignorance, credulity - helps your enjoyment of these things.

  Walt Whitman

  Nature, Travel, Flower

  Walt Whitman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Walt Whitman (Illustrated)”, p.1321, Delphi Classics

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• When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.

  Confucius

  Wise, Spiritual, Science

  Confucius (2012). “The Analects of Confucius In Plain and Simple English: BookCaps Study Guide”, BookCaps Study Guides

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• The key to life is to become skillful enough to be able to do rewarding things.

  Jim Rohn

  Life, Keys, Entrepreneur

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Dec 18, 2016

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• Knowledge must be gained by ourselves. Mankind may supply us with facts; but the results, even if they agree with previous ones, must be the work of our own minds.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Wisdom, Science, Mind

  Benjamin Disraeli (1853). “The Young Duke ... By B. Disraeli. A New Edition”, p.267

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• We live what we know. If we believe the universe and ourselves to be mechanical, we will live mechanically. On the other hand, if we know that we are part of an open universe, and that our minds are a matrix of reality, we will live more creatively and powerfully.

  Marilyn Ferguson

  Believe, Reality, Hands

  Marilyn Ferguson (1987). “The Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal and Social Transformation in the 1980s”, Tarcher

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• There is far greater peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.

  Plato

  Words Of Wisdom, Meat, Buying

  Plato (1977). “The Portable Plato”, p.38, Penguin

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• Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Birthday, Age, Literature

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2004). “D. H. Lawrence: Late Essays and Articles”, p.228, Cambridge University Press

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• When you know better you do better.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

  Carl Sagan

  Science, Thinking, Body

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science”, p.15, Ballantine Books

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• You must know all there is to know in your particular field and keep on the alert for new knowledge. The least difference in knowledge between you and another man may spell his success and your failure.

  Henry Ford

  Men, Differences, May

  Henry Ford (1922). “Ford Ideals: Being a Selection from "Mr. Ford's Page" in The Dearborn Independent”

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