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Quotes About Knowledge

The more mysterious, the more imperfect; as darkness is, in comparison with light--so is mystery, in comparison with knowledge.
~ Benjamin Whichcote
Wonder at the first sight of works of art may be the effect of ignorance and novelty; but real admiration and permanent delight in them are the growth of taste and knowledge.
~ William Hazlitt
Wisdom lies not in possessing knowledge - which quickly becomes outdated - but in perpetually seeking it.
~ Paul Johnson
If you meditate and continue to have fun with yoga and Buddhism, you will amass knowledge and will move to a higher incarnation. In your next lifetime you will be much wiser, much happier.
~ Frederick Lenz
There is first the literature of KNOWLEDGE, and secondly, the literature of POWER. The function of the first is -- to teach; the function of the second is -- to move.
~ Thomas de Quincey
There is no more merit in being able to attach a correct description to a picture than in being able to find out what is wrong with a stalled motorcar. In each case it is special knowledge.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
Do not fear lack of knowledge, talent or skill. Seek motivation and the others will come.
~ Randall Dale Adams
The desire to explore thus marks out the mathematician. This is one of the forces making for the growth of mathematics. The mathematician enjoys what he already knows; he is eager for more knowledge.
~ W. W. Sawyer
The mind of man is this world's true dimension; and knowledge is the measure of the mind.
~ Sir Fulke Greville
Remember that whatever knowledge you do not solidly lay the foundation of before you are eighteen, you will never be master of while you breathe.
~ Lord Chesterfield
If you cannot attain knowledge without torturing a dog, you must do without knowledge.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Knowledge has become the key economic resource and the dominant-and perhaps even the only-source of competitive advantage.
~ Peter Drucker
Thank God I am not an intellectual! What a garbage of knowledge, what an unnecessary glossary of terms they have, those intellectuals!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Fear was the knowledge of pain, the awareness that you could be hurt, that you could die.
~ Julie Kagawa
We're characters not of this world, so our knowledge about stuff, that other character's don't have, is quite fun.
~ Tom Ellis
Knowledge of the Bible never comes by intuition.
~ J. C. Ryle
It is not often that any man can have so much knowledge of another, as is necessary to make instruction useful.
~ Samuel Johnson
Scientists who think science consists of unprejudiced data-gathering without speculation are merely cows grazing on the pasture of knowledge.
~ Peter Medawar
Biological knowledge is doubling every five years.
~ Janine Benyus
When you want knowledge and understanding as badly as you wanted air, you won't have to ask anyone to give it to you.
~ Sterling W Sill
Humanities deepest desire for knowledge is justification enough for continuing our quest. and our goal is nothing less than a complete description of the universe we live in.
~ Stephen Hawking
I do recognize that India has to be the center, the hub of activity as far as the knowledge economy is concerned.
~ Manmohan Singh
no knowledge obtained without risk
~ Stephen King
Imagination is greater than knowledge.
~ Albert Einstein