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Quotes About Knowledge

The Indians' botanical knowledge is disappearing even faster than the plants themselves.
~ Richard Evans Schultes
Thou learnest no secret until thou knowest friendship, since to the unsound no heavenly knowledge enters.
~ Hafez
Knowledge we have. Anyone who strives for it with particular intensity is suspect of striving against it.
~ Franz Kafka
The masses are the real heroes, while we ourselves are often childish and ignorant, and without this understanding, it is impossible to acquire even the most rudimentary knowledge.
~ Mao Zedong
The goal of NIH research is to acquire new knowledge to help prevent, detect, diagnose, and treat disease and disability, from the rarest genetic disorder to the common cold.
~ Ike Skelton
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
It is a shame for a person to have been a Christian for years but not to have advanced beyond the knowledge of his salvation.
~ Theodore Epp
It is from the scope and wisdom of the economists of the past that we must reap the knowledge with which to face the future.
~ Robert Heilbroner
Seeing depends on knowledge / And knowledge, of course, on your college / But when you are erudite and wise / What matters is to use your eyes.
~ Ernst Gombrich
It is not so important to know everything as to know the exact value of everything, to appreciate what we learn and to arrange what we know.
~ Hannah More
To test a perfect theory with imperfect instruments did not impress the Greek philosophers as a valid way to gain knowledge.
~ Isaac Asimov
Every attainment, every step forward in knowledge, follows from courage, from hardness against oneself, from cleanliness in relation to oneself.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
For knowledge is not given as gift...but through study...The free mind, not afraid of labor, presses on to attain the good.
~ Laura Cereta
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
~ Thomas A. Edison
College is like a fountain of knowledge - and the students are there to drink
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Nevertheless, I consider OOP as an aspect of programming in the large; that is, as an aspect that logically follows programming in the small and requires sound knowledge of procedural programming.
~ Niklaus Wirth
The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and "mangled mind" leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.
~ Elizabeth Drew
Information is bad for knowledge.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
My major hobby is teasing people who take themselves and the quality of their knowledge too seriously and those who don't have the guts to sometimes say: I don't know.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The point to remember about selling things is that, as well as creating atmosphere and excitement around your products, you've got to know what you're selling.
~ Stuart Wilde
in much knowledge there is also much grief.
~ Marie of Romania
Every judgment teeters on the brink of error. To claim absolute knowledge is to become monstrous. Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.
~ Frank Herbert
And the quality of good judgement is clearly a form of knowledge and skill, as it is because of knowledge and not because of ignorance that we judge well.
~ Plato
No Discourse whatsoever, can End in absolute Knowledge of Fact.
~ Thomas Hobbes