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Quotes About Knowledge

True knowledge consists in knowing things, not words.
~ Mary Wortley Montagu
knowledge is the best gift of pure God .
~ Bozorgmehr
Knowledge is not a loose leaf notebook of facts.
~ Jacob Bronowski
The way to belief is short and easy, the way to knowledge is long and hard.
~ Ernst Stuhlinger
To understand matters rightly we should understand their details; and as that knowledge is almost infinite, our knowledge is always superficial and imperfect.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Knowledge is still power -- but today you've got to make sure you know more about your listener than their favorite song.
~ Bob Walker
I think it's wrong that so many people pass on from this existence, and take all their knowledge with them.
~ Rex Hunt
What I really need is to get clear out about what I must do, not what I must know, except insofar as knowledge precedes every act.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
In ancient times, those who followed the Way did not try to give people knowledge thereof, but kept them ignorant.
~ Laozi
Epistemic competence might be posterior to knowledge conceptually, however, while still prior metaphysically.
~ Ernest Sosa
There is no higher or lower knowledge, but one only, flowing out of experimentation.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
What is important is not the quantity of your knowledge but its quality. You can know many things without knowing the most important.
~ Leo Tolstoy
How long, I wonder, will ignorance spell purity and knowledge shame?
~ Rosamond Lehmann
The advancement of knowledge must be translated into increasing health and education for the children.
~ Herbert Hoover
The real scholar learns how to evolve the unknown from the known, and draws near the master.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Such is the constitution of the human mind, that any kind of knowledge, if it be really such, is its own reward.
~ John Henry Newman
Faith is the Knowledge of the Heart, Logick the Knowledge of the Mind.
~ Erica Jong
We find the instrument for the Knowledge of God in ourselves But we find God everywhere.
~ Rudolf Steiner
You don't need absolute knowledge to have reliable knowledge
~ D. J. Grothe
This is the extent of his knowledge of the sea: it was very big, it was salty, and fish lived there.
~ Haruki Murakami
Knowledge comes through likeness. And so because the soul may know everything, it is never at rest until it comes to the original idea, in which all things are one. And there it comes to rest in God.
~ Meister Eckhart
When you try to do one step forward to attain knowledge about the hidden truths, then do the same time three steps forward to perfect your character.
~ Rudolf Steiner
The Germans believe that, no matter where, they can get by on knowledge alone. Art, however, requires skill.
~ Franz Grillparzer
If people do not revere the Law of Nature It will adversely affect them. If they accept It with knowledge and reverence, It will accommodate them with balance and harmony.
~ Laozi