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Quotes About Knowledge

The downside of aging is a slower metabolism and achy joints.The upside is a knowledge of self that prevents one from behaving like a baboon.
~ Dov Davidoff
In order to do an empowerment, a person obviously has to be highly empowered, have the power, and also have the structural knowledge of how to transfer it to someone else.
~ Frederick Lenz
Although your knowledge is weak and small, you need not be silent: since you cannot be judges be at least witnesses.
~ Franz Grillparzer
All our knowledge originates in opinion.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
Knowledge of the investment is most profitable
~ Benjamin Franklin
Patience, piety, and salutary knowledge spring up and ripen under the harrow of affliction; before there is wine or oil, the grape must be trodden and the oil pressed.
~ Walter Savage Landor
A knowledge of different literatures is the best way to free one's self from the tyranny of any of them.
~ Jose Marti
We are as much as we see. Faith is sight and knowledge. The hands only serve the eyes.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Like most lazy upper-middle-class kids, American Studies seemed like a fun way to use your knowledge of TV to get an A.
~ Nick Kroll
Technology is knowledge of how the universe works that enables you to change the world.
~ Howard Rheingold
"Lawyers Are": By law's dark by-ways he has stored his mind with wicked knowledge on how to cheat mankind.
~ George Crabbe
And if ye cannot be saints of knowledge, then, I pray you, be at least its warriors. They are the companions and forerunners of such saintship.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Knowledge is truthful only if it's based in morality.
~ Andrei Tarkovsky
Knowledge and power doesn't come from an entity, it comes from within yourself. What can these things tell you, to put five bucks on Snowflake in the third race?
~ Frederick Lenz
Our conjectures pass upon us for truths; we will know what we do not know, and often, what we cannot know: so mortifying to our pride is the base suspicion of ignorance.
~ Lord Chesterfield
But it would be absolutely mistaken to regard a wealth of theoretical knowledge as characteristic proof for the qualities and abilities of a leader.
~ Adolf Hitler
Individualism is bad for business - though absolutely necessary for freedom, progressive knowledge, and any possible interface with the transcendent.
~ Tom Robbins
Knowledge without action, is like having no knowledge at all!
~ Ted Nicholas
That's what librarians do. They open up the world. Because knowledge is useless if you don't know how to find it, if you don't even know where to begin to look.
~ Patrick Ness
The goal is to know how not-to-know.
~ D. H. Lawrence
I have this tendency to take a little bit of questionable knowledge and riff on it.
~ George Saunders
Knowledge cannot be changed, but the use to which it may be put can very easily be changed.
~ Phyllis Bottome
In my view, since the case can be made that knowledge too is a natural kind, the role of pretheoretical intuitions is similarly diminished in epistemology.
~ Hilary Kornblith
That virtue only makes our bliss below, And all our knowledge is ourselves to know.
~ Alexander Pope