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Quotes About Knowledge

The collector attempts always to acquire the best, and his knowledge of what is best is always widening. His is the task of judging between degrees of perfection.
~ Arthur Davison Ficke
To recognize causes is to think, and through thought alone feelings become knowledge and are not lost, but become real and begin to mature.
~ Hermann Hesse
Arrive at knowledge over small streamlets, and do not plunge immediately into the ocean, since progress must go from the easier to the more difficult.
~ Thomas Aquinas
The knowledge of the realm of death makes it possible for the shaman to move freely back and forth and mediate these journeys for other people.
~ Stanislav Grof
The great desire of this age is for a doctrine which may serve to condense our knowledge, guide our researches, and shape our lives, so that conduct may really be the consequence of belief
~ George Henry Lewes
Socrates gave no diplomas or degrees, and would have subjected any disciple who demanded one to a disconcerting catechism on the nature of true knowledge.
~ G. M. Trevelyan
The worst condition of humans is when they lose knowledge and control of themselves.
~ Michel de Montaigne
Knowledge is your weapon...Kill them with it.
~ Jim Butcher
My knowledge of Abuja is not as deep as my knowledge of Lagos.
~ Babatunde Fashola
If book knowledge made great investors, than the librarians would all be rich.
~ Warren Buffett
I want knowledge. Not belief. Not surmise. But knowledge. I want God to put out His hand, show His face, speak to me.
~ Ingmar Bergman
In the electronic age, books, words and reading are not likely to remain sufficiently authoritative and central to knowledge to justify literature.
~ Bill Vaughan
Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize.
~ Christopher Lasch
First come I; my name is Jowett. There's no knowledge but I know it. I am Master of this college: What I don't know isn't knowledge.
~ Henry Beeching
Alchemists turned into chemists when they stopped keeping secrets.
~ Eric S. Raymond
Forecasters tend to learn less and less about more and more, until in the end they know nothing about everything.
~ Edgar Fiedler
Since knowledge is but sorrow's spy, It is not safe to know.
~ William Davenant
In the world of knowledge, the idea of good appears last of all, and is seen only with effort.
~ Plato
With knowledge grows doubt.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Common Core, the initiative that claims to more accurately measure K-12 student knowledge in English and math, also encourages children to step up their "critical thinking."
~ David Harsanyi
The average golfer's problem is not so much the lack of ability as it is lack of knowledge about what he should be doing
~ Ben Hogan
He who binds His soul to knowledge, steals the key of heaven.
~ Nathaniel Parker Willis
All handling by IPCC of the Sea Level questions have been done in a way that cannot be accepted and that certainly not concur with modern knowledge of the mode and mechanism of sea level changes.
~ Nils-Axel Morner
If the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place. This is not secret knowledge. It's just secret to this pop culture.
~ Alan Kay