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Quotes About Impact

The assumption of perfect knowledge is very far from reality ... a lot of the evil in the world is actually not intentional.
~ George Soros
Astrology is like any other branch of knowledge. It can be used for good or for ill, properly or improperly, by skilled and unskilled practitioners alike.
~ Elizabeth Clare Prophet
You will find that the mere resolve not to be useless, and the honest desire to help other people, will, in the quickest and delicatest ways, improve yourself.
~ John Ruskin
Knowledge is rarely enough to spark change; it takes emotion to bring knowledge to a boil.
~ Chip Heath
You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt.
~ Gerald Brenan
If you look at the people who have high impact, they have pretty general knowledge. They don't have a really narrowly focused education.
~ Larry Page
Knowledge itself is never dangerous, it is how that knowledge is used that is dangerous
~ Michael Scott
And, that's what I truly believe that we're doing when we're advancing scientific knowledge is we're someday making the world better. Not only for our children, but for all people after that.
~ Duane G. Carey
The most abundant resources that we possess amongst the 1.5 million nonprofits in the United States are passion and knowledge, yet our most scarce resource is collaboration.
~ Adam Braun
We began to connect literacy and learning and the lively effects of biblical knowledge and preaching pretty early. That was a tremendous impact.
~ Michael Eric Dyson
In the scientific world I find just that disinterested devotion to great ends that I hope will spread at last through the entire range of human activity.
~ H. G. Wells
And so it happens oft in many instances; more good is done without our knowledge than by us intended. [Lat., Itidemque ut saepe jam in multis locis, Plus insciens quis fecit quam prodens boni.]
~ Plautus
In fact, it's the very impersonality of impersonal knowledge that renders such knowledge the most ethically potent of all.
~ Rebecca Goldstein
The power of the past does not depend on our knowledge of it.
~ Mason Cooley
Knowledge is the key to making a difference.
~ Sylvia Earle
The researcher is more memorable than the researched.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Technology is knowledge of how the universe works that enables you to change the world.
~ Howard Rheingold
We bear the world and we make it.... There was never a great man who had not a great mother-it is hardly an exaggeration.
~ Olive Schreiner
At the end of your life there will be many people you won't be acquainted with.Make sure you are not among them.
~ Luigina Sgarro
The pen is mightier than the sword as long as it doesn't run out of ink.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
when you do more than you learn, you leave a distinctive notable footprint on earth
~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
The knowledge of God that a person has, influences not only his own life, but also the lives of his children.
~ Sunday Adelaja
Don't be the person who has an overflowing cup of knowledge but an inactive state of action. That serves no-one, that serves no purpose.
~ Tony Curl
Actions, not knowledge, bring result.
~ Sunday Adelaja