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A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you. -Elbert Hubbard
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. -Socrates
Hold fast to dreams, For if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird, That cannot fly. -Langston Hughes
Any fool can know. The point is to understand. -Albert Einstein
I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know. -Mark Twain
I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better. -Maya Angelou
No thief, however skillful, can rob one of knowledge, and that is why knowledge is the best and safest treasure to acquire. -L. Frank Baum
The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends. - Friedrich Nietzsche
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. -John Locke
Great minds are always feared by lesser minds. -Dan Brown
I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think - Socrates
The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge. - Daniel J. Boorstin
Knowing too much of your future is never a good thing. - Rick Riordan
It is the absence of facts that frightens people: the gap you open, into which they pour their fears, fantasies, desires. -Hilary Mantel
Write what you know. That should leave you with a lot of free time. - Howard Nemerov
All knowledge hurts. -Cassandra Clare
Last night I lost the world, and gained the universe. -C. JoyBell C.
The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery. -Anais Nin
I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me. -Hermann Hesse
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring. - Carl Sagan
Knowledge is power. Power to do evil...or power to do good. Power itself is not evil. So knowledge itself is not evil. -Veronica Roth
Knowledge, like air, is vital to life. Like air, no one should be denied it. -Alan Moore
It takes a very long time to become young. -Pablo Picasso
Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. -Kurt Vonnegut
The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend. - Robertson Davies
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social enviroment. Most people are incapable of forming such opinions. -Albert Einstein
An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest. - Benjamin Franklin
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. -Alfred Lord Tennyson
It was better to know the worst than to wonder. -Margaret Mitchell
What is now proved was once only imagined. -William Blake
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. -Will Durant
A little Learning is a dangerous Thing. -Alexander Pope
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science. -Charles Darwin
Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent. -Cormac McCarthy
To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: this skill is most needful in times of stress and darkness. -Ursula K. Le Guin
The hardest thing of all is to find a black cat in a dark room, especially if there is no cat -Confucius
Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy. - Alexandre Dumas
I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people. - Isaac Newton
The knowledge of all things is possible -Leonardo da Vinci
Remember my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker -Bram Stoker
A woman, especially if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can. -Jane Austen
Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do. -Johann wolfgang von Goethe
To know that you do not know is the best. To think you know when you do not is a disease. Recognizing this disease as a disease is to be free of it. -Lao Tzu
Conquer the angry one by not getting angry; conquer the wicked by goodness; conquer the stingy by generosity, and the liar by speaking the truth. -SiddhÄrtha Gautama
Doubt … is an illness that comes from knowledge and leads to madness. - Gustave Flaubert
Information is not knowledge. - Albert Einstein
Always forgive, but never forget, else you will be a prisoner of your own hatred, and doomed to repeat your mistakes forever. -Wil Zeus
Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it. -Lao Tzu
The happiness of the drop is to die in the river. - Imam Al-Ghazali
No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can get elsewhere. -Sigmund Freud
When you reach the end of what you should know, you will be at the beginning of what you should sense. -Kahlil Gibrán
nothing that is worth knowing can be taught - Oscar Wilde
Popular culture is a place where pity is called compassion, flattery is called love, propaganda is called knowledge, tension is called peace, gossip is called news, and auto-tune is called singing. -Criss Jami
Then why do you want to know. -Umberto Eco
There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance. -Hippocrates
A little learning is a dangerous thing. Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian Spring; There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking largely sobers us again. -Alexander Pope
Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous. -Frank Herbert
I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith. - Immanuel Kant
I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith. - Immanuel Kant
I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith. - Immanuel Kant
That is just the way with some people. They get down on a thing when they don’t know nothing about it. -Mark Twain
The power of human thought grows exponentially with the number of minds that share that thought. -Dan Brown
Belief is the wound that knowledge heals. -Ursula K. Le Guin
Let us tenderly and kindly cherish therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write . -John Adams
You can only be afraid of what you think you know. -
Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge. -Audre Lorde
Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind. -Plato
To light a candle is to cast a shadow... -Ursula K. Le Guin
Her reputation for reading a great deal hung about her like the cloudy envelope of a goddess in an epic. -Henry James
All men by nature desire knowledge. - Aristotle
The truth is like salt. Men want to taste a little, but too much makes everyone sick. - Joe Abercrombie
Do not repeat after me words that you do not understand. Do not merely put on a mask of my ideas, for it will be an illusion and you will thereby deceive yourself. -Jiddu Krishnamurti
All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason. - immanuel kant
Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know. - Michel de Montaigne
Philosophy ... is a science, and as such has no articles of faith; accordingly, in it nothing can be assumed as existing except what is either positively given empirically, or demonstrated through indubitable conclusions. -Arthur Schopenhauer
Timendi causa est nescire - Ignorance is the cause of fear. - Lucius Annaeus Seneca
I thought to myself: I am wiser than this man; neither of us probably knows anything that is really good, but he thinks he has knowledge, when he has not, while I, having no knowledge, do not think I have. - Plato
To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others. -Alexandre Dumas
Faith, n. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel. -Ambrose Bierce
Scientia potentia est. Knowledge is power. - Thomas Hobbes
The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty. -James Madison
I have always thirsted for knowledge, I have always been full of questions. -Hermann Hesse
Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since. -Abigail Adams
The way of success is the way of continuous pursuit of knowledge. -Napoleon Hill
I know that the molecules in my body are traceable to phenomena in the cosmos. That makes me want to grab people on the street and say: ‘Have you HEARD THIS. -Neil deGrasse Tyson
Knowledge is a weapon. I intend to be formidably armed. -Terry Goodkind
I think a lot of psychopaths are just geniuses who drove so fast that they lost control. - Criss Jami
Knowledge grows exponentially. The more we know, the greater our ability to learn, and the faster we expand our knowledge base. -Dan Brown
The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled. Each evening we see the sun set. We know that the earth is turning away from it. Yet the knowledge, the explanation, never quite fits the sight. -John Berger
I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure — that is all that agnosticism means. -Clarence Darrow
Life is like a sandwich! Birth as one slice, and death as the other. What you put in-between the slices is up to you. Is your sandwich tasty or sour? Allan Rufus.org - Allan Rufus
I set out to discover the why of it, and to transform my pleasure into knowledge. -Charles Baudelaire
Acquiring wisdom is great but it is not the goal, applying it is. -idowu koyenikan
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. -Samuel Johnson
The problems are solved, not by giving new information, but by arranging what we have known since long. - Ludwig Wittgenstein
The only defense against the world is a thorough knowledge of it. - John Locke
It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge. - Voltaire
Habit is the intersection of knowledge (what to do), skill (how to do), and desire (want to do). -Stephen R. Covey
Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle. - G.K. Chesterton
All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge. - Leonardo da Vinci
Valuing knowledge above all else results in a lust for power, and that leads men into dark and empty places. -Veronica Roth
True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it. -Karl R. Popper
....a good book can teach you about the world and about yourself. You learn more than how to read better; you also learn more about life. You become wiser. Not just more knowledgeable - books that provide nothing but information can produce that result. B -Mortimer J. Adler
Knowledge is a tool, and like all tools, its impact is in the hands of the user. - Dan Brown
There is but one coward on earth, and that is the coward that dare not know. -W.E.B. DuBois
So runs my dream, but what am I? An infant crying in the night An infant crying for the light And with no language but a cry. - Lord Alfred Tennyson,
To force oneself to believe and to accept a thing without understanding is political, and not spiritual or intellectual. -SiddhÄrtha Gautama
Poetry and art and knowledge are sacred and pure. - George Eliot
Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense. - Gertrude Stein
The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change. - Carl R. Rogers
Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality. - Dalai Lama XIV
New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become. -Kurt Vonnegut
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand. - Plato
Nobody is smarter than you are. And what if they are? What good is their understanding doing you. - Terence McKenna
Knowledge is a better weapon than a sword. - Patricia Briggs
I only know that I know nothing - Socrates
Knowledge kills action; action requires the veils of illusion. -Friedrich Nietzsche
Knowledge always has the potential to be dangerous. It is a more powerful weapon than any sword or spell. - Margaret Rogerson
Science, my boy, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth. - Jules Verne
A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge. -Thomas Carlyle
But need alone is not enough to set power free: there must be knowledge. -Ursula K. Le Guin
Many much-learned men have no intelligence. - Democritus
Darkness feeds on apathy. -Dan Brown
The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing. -Isaac Asimov
I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led. -Thomas Jefferson
He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Knowledge is the ultimate weapon. It always has been. - Jim Butcher
Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity. -Voltaire
Knowledge is the ultimate weapon. It always has been. -Jim Butcher
Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity. - Voltaire
Know what you are talking about. -Pope John Paul II
Ipsa scientia potestas est. Knowledge itself is power. -Francis Bacon
Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge. - John Wesley
We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine. -H.L. Mencken
We understand more than we know. -Margaret Atwood
I am too much of a skeptic to deny the possibility of anything. -Thomas Henry Huxley
I am too much of a skeptic to deny the possibility of anything. -Thomas Henry Huxley
I am too much of a skeptic to deny the possibility of anything. -Thomas Henry Huxley
