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Quotes About Knowledge

Dan Spainhour is a terrific coach and educator. I had the pleasure of working several years with him, and I know that his knowledge and enthusiasm are first-rate.
~ Tommy Amaker
Tacit knowledge is one of the most important concepts of current scholarship in the humanities. Ambitious and important, Tacit and Explicit Knowledge is a well-written and original book.
~ Robert P. Crease
Ex oriente lux may still be the motto of scholars, for the Western world has not yet derived from the East all the light which itis destined to receive thence.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Knowledge is the vaccination that keeps you away from the flu of misery
~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Forasmuch as many people study more to have knowledge than to live well therefore ofttimes they err and bring forth little fruit or none.
~ Thomas a Kempis
All I know is reception; I am and I have: but I do not get, and when I fancied I had gotten anything, I found I did not.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Only professional mathematicians learn anything from proofs. Other people learn from explanations.
~ Ralph P. Boas, Jr.
I have no use for knowledge that has not been preceded by a sensation
~ Andre Gide
Index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of Science by the tail. Index-learning is a term used to mock pretenders who acquire superficial knowledge merely by consulting indexes.
~ Alexander Pope
As I've gotten older, and now that my kids are starting to do what they do, I am now really focusing on sharing my knowledge and insights with them to help guide them on their journeys.
~ Jada Pinkett Smith
Let every sluice of knowledge be opened and set a-flowing.
~ John Adams
Expand within your church. Expand within the people you have contact. Bring them up to speed in knowledge on what's going on.
~ H. L. Richardson
Fencing is more a sport than a martial art. It would be like basing your knowledge of roman phalanx warfare on NFL football.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
idealism, that gaudy coloring matter of passion, fades when it is brought beneath the trenchant white light of knowledge. Ideals, like mountains, are best at a distance.
~ Ellen Glasgow
I could justify violence only in this extreme case, to save the last living knowledge of Buddhism itself.
~ Dalai Lama
They can't stop you if, in your heart, you seek enlightenment, empowerment, balance and knowledge.
~ Frederick Lenz
You can only talk rubbish if you're aware of knowledge.
~ Karl Pilkington
The mind Is so hospitable, taking in everything Like boarders, and you don't see until It's all over how little there was to learn Once the stench of knowledge has dissipated.
~ John Ashbery
Effective leaders make a full commitment to be a learner, to keep increasing and nourishing their knowledge and wisdom.
~ Warren G. Bennis
In addition to innocence, we have to have knowledge of good and evil.
~ Frederick Lenz
...knowledge of material reality is the knowledge of death.
~ Richard M. Weaver
In heaven I yearn for knowledge, account all else inanity; On earth I confess an itch for the praise of fools - that's vanity
~ Robert Browning
There are things that have excited me to no end, and it's the sharing of knowledge that has come about on the network, and I see at an increasing pace this ability to share what we know.
~ Vinton Cerf
The equation for ego is: One over Knowledge.
~ Albert Einstein