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Quotes About Knowledge

Knowledge is a weight added to conscience.
~ Victor Hugo
The knowledge of my sin Is half-repentance.
~ Bayard Taylor
There is nothing to guarantee the superior judgment, knowledge, and integrity of an inspector or a bureaucrat-and the deadly consequences of entrusting him with arbitrary power are obvious.
~ Alan Greenspan
To be specific, is to exhibit a knowledge of the principles and art of adjusting; a comprehension of facts so systematized that they are available for the relief of disease.
~ Daniel D. Palmer
Knowing you might not make it... in that knowledge courage is born.
~ William S. Burroughs
A suspicious person is the rival of him that deceives, both seem to practice a knowledge of cunning device, and equable sense of disengenuous merit.
~ Norm MacDonald
Wisdom sets bounds even to knowledge.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Chris[topher] Reeve wisely parsed the difference between optimism and hope. Unlike optimism, he said, 'Hope is the product of knowledge and the projection of where the knowledge can take us.
~ Michael J. Fox
To generalize is to be an idiot. To particularize is the alone distinction of merit. General knowledge are those knowledge that idiots possess.
~ William Blake
He who thinks he knows, doesn't know. He who knows that he doesn't know, knows.
~ Joseph Campbell
Knowledge comes from our senses, extend our senses and we extend our knowledge. Let's stop building apps for mobile phones and start building apps for our bodies.
~ Neil Harbisson
Knowledge is a public good and increases in value as the number of people possessing it increases.
~ John Wilbanks
When God is seeking a person, he will not allow my fear, my feeling of intimidation or my lack of knowledge or experience to prevent that person from finding him.
~ Rebecca Pippert
All the best essays are epistemological journeys from ignorance or curiosity to knowledge.
~ Geoff Dyer
The humanities don't belong to some elitist group... knowledge as a whole should be embraced.
~ Ruth Simmons
The dream unites the grossest contradictions, permits impossibilities, sets aside the knowledge that influences us by day, and exposes us as ethically and morally obtuse.
~ Sigmund Freud
art is exposure. And until you've developed a degree of maturity to handle that knowledge, you are revealing what other people keep hidden.
~ Shelley Winters
It's not what you know, and it's not even who you know. It's how much knowledge you give away. Hoarding knowledge diminishes your power because it diminishes your presence.
~ David Weinberger
No political party can possibly lead a great revolutionary movement to victory unless it possesses revolutionary theory and knowledge of history and has a profound grasp of the practical movement.
~ Mao Zedong
We tend to treat our knowledge as personal property to be protected and defended. It is an ornament that allows us to rise in the pecking order. [...] We take what we know a little too seriously.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
To be a writer you should read, write and talk to people, hear their knowledge, hear their problems. Be a good listener. The rest will come.
~ Jean Craighead George
Innovation-the heart of the knowledge economy-is fundamentally social.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
There is only the constant knowledge and enjoyment of the Heart, moment to moment, through the instant of all conditions of appearance and disappearance. Of this I am perfectly certain. I am That.
~ Adi Da
I do not believe...I know.
~ Carl Jung