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Quotes About Knowledge

There is a great charity always to the dead. Do you know what I should like this minute? I should like to find someone who knew Elizabeth Barnard and who does not know she is dead! Then, perhaps, I should hear what is useful to me—the truth.
~ Agatha Christie
His name, he noted with chagrin, made no particular impression on her. The younger generation, he could not but feel, were singularly lacking in knowledge of notable celebrities
~ Agatha Christie
you've been listening to the doctors. Never should. What do they know? Nothing at all--or just enough to make them dangerous.
~ Agatha Christie
an expert fisherman knows exactly what flies to offer to what fish.
~ Agatha Christie
It was old Scrymgour. Somebody looked into his church one day. He was leaning out of the pulpit and preaching fervently to a couple of old charwomen. He was shaking his finger at them and saying, 'Aha! I know what you are thinking. You think that the Great Ahasuerus of the First Lesson was Artaxerxes the Second. But he wasn't!' And then with enormous triumph, 'He was Artaxerxes the Third.
~ Agatha Christie
They won't know. Who's to tell them? Nobody knows but you." It was the second time she had said those words. At this second repetition her voice changed a little
~ Agatha Christie
One would know better nowadays," he said, "owing to the prevalence of detective fiction. Every street boy knows that a body must be left where it is found. But in these days we had not the same knowledge, and accordingly we carried the body
~ Agatha Christie
He's a zealous fellow, but zeal can't really take the place of brains.
~ Agatha Christie
Ours is an upbeat, a hurried, hasty beat. It keeps pressing us to go farther, to include everything so that we can savor everything, so that we can know everything, so that we will miss nothing. Partly it's greed, but mainly its curiosity. We just want to experience it. And we do.
~ Agnes de Mille
It is as impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.
~ Agnes Repplier
Scientific facts are few and far between, popular facts are commonplace and not usually facts at all.
~ Agustín Fuentes
Seek knowledge even if it's in MACS0647-JD.
~ Ahmad F. Hedayat
From Aus B. Shurahbil" He heard Allah Messenger say: "One who strives to strengthen an oppressor and knows he is an oppressor has already left Islam. Baihaqi
~ Ahmad Von Denffer
the B sign).
~ Ahmed Hulusi
It is He who sent down water (knowledge) from the sky in measured amounts... And with it, We revived a dead land (consciousness)! Thus will you be brought out (from your graves – bodies). 43.Az-Zukhruf: 11
~ Ahmed Hulusi
People aren't helpless because they want to be helpless. People are helpless because it's all they know.
~ Ahmed Korayem
People aren't stupid. They're ignorant.
~ Ahmed Korayem
The mind is, by far, the most complex tool ever created. The day we'll discover every minutia of its inner workings is the day we'll know everything there is to know about this universe.
~ Ahmed Korayem
Waxaad qiimo iyo sharaf ku lahaan doontaa goobaha shaqada, kolba sida aad u tayeyso xirfada iyo aqoonta aad xanbaarsan tahay.
~ Ahmed Omaar
When you have strict censorship of the internet, young students cannot receive a full education. Their view of the world is imbalanced. There can be no true discussion of the issues.
~ Ai Weiwei
As Oscar Wilde put it, Experience is the name we give to our mistakes. No no, Oscar, darl: Experience is the name of the whole darn game.
~ Aidan Chambers
Readers are made not born.
~ Aidan Chambers
To know beings is implicitly to know God, since all things are in some manner likenesses of divine being, which, in its communicative outflow in creation, shows itself for what it is.
~ Aidan Nichols
Man I studied phychology, Theology, Archeology, the nervous system, The Brain, algerba, Anatomy, read the Bible four times in its entirety, politics, and so much more.
~ Aileen Wuornos