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Quotes About Knowledge

It takes a couple of years just to get the background and knowledge that you need before you can go into detailed training for your mission.
~ Sally Ride
A dame that knows the ropes isn't likely to get tied up.
~ Mae West
The problem with life is, by the time you can read women like a book, your library card has expired.
~ Milton Berle
There is a young and impressionable mind out there that is hungry for information. It has latched on to an electronic tube as its main source of nourishment.
~ Joan Ganz Cooney
To pursue knowledge is obligatory on every believing man and woman.
~ Ibn Majah
Educated men and women, especially those who are in college, very often get the idea that religion is fit only for the common people. No young man or woman can make a greater error than this.
~ Booker T. Washington
most men and women, by birth or nature, lack the means to advance in wealth or power, but all have the ability to advance in knowledge.
~ Pythagoras
When women age into their power, no wind can upset them, no hand turn aside their knowledge, no fact can deflect their point of view.
~ Louise Erdrich
The world is the book of women. Whatever knowledge they may possess is more commonly acquired by observation than by reading.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Women have millions of years of genetically-enc oded intelligences, intuitions, capacities, knowledges, powers, and cellular knowings of exactly what to do with the infant.
~ Joseph Chilton Pearce
Women will not talk about football unless one of them is in love with a football player, and then suddenly you discover that they know everything that is to be known about it.
~ Jeanne Moreau
What a women reads makes her more attractive and more elegant than what she wears.
~ Carine Roitfeld
Democracy in the contemporary world demands, among other things, an educated and informed people.
~ Elizabeth Bishop
Women know when they've got the menopause but men don't quite know. They know it afterwards.
~ Omar Sharif
One of the greatest faults of the women of the present time is a silly fear of things, and one object of the education of girls should be to give them knowledge of what things are really dangerous.
~ Ellen Swallow Richards
God forbid, men should be jealous of knowledge as they are jealous of women.
~ Umar
From women's eyes this doctrine I derive: They sparkle still the right Promethean fire; They are the books, the arts, the academes, That show, contain and nourish all the world.
~ William Shakespeare
Many of the most successful men and women in the world never graduated from college. They attended the school of life instead.
~ Brian Tracy
I would be ashamed to admit to the Indians that, where I come from, the women do not feel themselves capable of raising children until they read the instructions written in a book by a strange man.
~ Jean Liedloff
Women go after doctors like men go after models. They want someone with knowledge of the body. We just want the body.
~ Jerry Seinfeld
Till women are more rationally educated, the progress in human virtue and improvement in knowledge must receive continual checks.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft
To my eye, women get sexier around 35. They know a thing or two, and knowledge is always alluring.
~ Pierce Brosnan
An economist is a man who knows a hundred ways of making love but doesn't know any women.
~ Art Buchwald
There is a tendency among men as well as women ... so soon as they have acquired a little knowledge of some kind, to want to display it to the best advantage.
~ Murasaki Shikibu