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Quotes About Knowledge

Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Knowledge must become capability.
~ Carl von Clausewitz
A person might be an expert in any field of knowledge or a master of many material skills and accomplishments. But without inner cleanliness his brain is a desert waste.
~ Sathya Sai Baba
Microfinance recognizes that poor people are remarkable reservoirs of energy and knowledge
~ Kofi Annan
I came literally to the table with a wealth of knowledge by simply understanding how food should taste.
~ Rocco DiSpirito
Man cannot live without some knowledge of the purpose of life. If he can find no purpose in life he creates one in the inevitability of death.
~ Chester Himes
Imagine someone holding forth on biology whose only knowledge of the subject is 'The Book of British Birds,' and you have a rough idea of what it feels like to read Richard Dawkins on theology.
~ Terry Eagleton
Belief is not the beginning of knowledge - it is the end.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It is possible to learn all about the mysteries of the Bible and never be affected by it in one's soul. Great knowledge is not enough.
~ John Bunyan
Intuitive knowledge is an illumination of the soul, whereby it beholds in the light of God those things which it pleases Him to reveal to us by a direct impression of divine clearness.
~ Rene Descartes
Most important part of doing physics is the knowledge of approximation.
~ Lev Landau
There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul.
~ Arnold Bennett
The Word of God must be Read and Heard with Diligence that so you may arrive to the Knowledge that is needful for you.
~ Cotton Mather
I am not supposed to be an expert in every field. I am supposed to be an expert in picking experts.
~ Moshe Dayan
Colonialists stole not only the lands of African people and renamed them. They stole also their knowledge, so that they would know nothing about themselves
~ Motsoko Pheko
We obtain better knowledge of a person during one hour's play and games than by conversing with him for a whole year
~ Plato
The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people.
~ Tom Clancy
Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.
~ Alvin Toffler
If virtue & knowledge are diffused among the people, they will never be enslav'd. This will be their great security.
~ Samuel Adams
Knowledge of any value can't be given. It must be sought and earned
~ Rick Riordan
All good intellects have repeated, since Bacon's time, that there can be no real knowledge but which is based on observed facts.
~ Auguste Comte
Those who fall away have never been thoroughly imbued with the knowledge of Christ but only had a slight and passing taste of it.
~ John Calvin
Knowledge and ego are directly related. the less knowledge, the greater the ego
~ Albert Einstein
The ultimate goal of theology isn't knowledge, but worship.
~ Sam Storms