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Oliver Wendell Holmes

It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.

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Thomas Aquinas

The knowledge of God is the cause of things. For the knowledge of God is to all creatures what the knowledge of the artificer is to things made by his art.

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Quentin Tarantino

My mom took me to see Carnal Knowledge and The Wild Bunch and all these kind of movies when I was a kid.

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William S. Burroughs

Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.

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Walter Scott

A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.

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Tom Clancy

The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people.

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Jean Piaget

It is with children that we have the best chance of studying the development of logical knowledge, mathematical knowledge, physical knowledge, and so forth.

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Vine Deloria, Jr.

Western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but rather, it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent.

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Immanuel Kant

But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.

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Ernest Holmes

The universal Mind contains all knowledge. It is the potential ultimate of all things. To it, all things are possible.

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Anthony J. D'Angelo

In your thirst for knowledge, be sure not to drown in all the information.

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Sonny Perdue

My philosophy of leadership is to surround myself with good people who have ability, judgment and knowledge, but above all, a passion for service.

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Eric Hoffer

We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about.

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Josh Billings

Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.

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Will Durant

Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.

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Janet Jackson

In complete darkness we are all the same, it is only our knowledge and wisdom that separates us, don't let your eyes deceive you.

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William Ellery Channing

No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent.

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J. K. Rowling

His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.

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William Penn

Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.

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Tobey Maguire

I might have some character traits that some might see as innocence or naive. That's because I discovered peace and happiness in my soul. And with this knowledge, I also see the beauty of human life.

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Charles Caleb Colton

Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.

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Charles Caleb Colton

That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.

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Charles Stanley

Helping someone come to a saving knowledge of Christ is the greatest achievement possible.

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Alfred North Whitehead

In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory.

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P. G. Wodehouse

Golf... is the infallible test. The man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge that only God is watching him, and play his ball where it lies, is the man who will serve you faithfully and well.

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David Herbert Lawrence

Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.

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James Allen

The will to do springs from the knowledge that we can do.

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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

We do not need to be shoemakers to know if our shoes fit, and just as little have we any need to be professionals to acquire knowledge of matters of universal interest.

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Baltasar Gracian

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.

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George Herbert

In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.

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Alexander the Great

I would rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent than in the extent of my powers and dominion.

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Alvin Toffler

Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

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Jeremy Taylor

It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance, for it requires knowledge to perceive it and, therefore, he that can perceive it hath it not.

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Robert Quillen

Discussion is an exchange of knowledge an argument an exchange of ignorance.

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Neil Armstrong

Research is creating new knowledge.

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Lord Chesterfield

Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.

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Scott Adams

We must develop knowledge optimization initiatives to leverage our key learnings.

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Franz Kafka

We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. The state in which we are is sinful, irrespective of guilt.

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Stokely Carmichael

The knowledge I have now is not the knowledge I had then.

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Zhuangzi

Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.

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Hippocrates

A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.

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Havelock Ellis

Education, whatever else it should or should not be, must be an inoculation against the poisons of life and an adequate equipment in knowledge and skill for meeting the chances of life.

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Bertolt Brecht

The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn when teachers themselves are taught to learn.

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Abigail Adams

Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since.

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Franz Kafka

How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room. There is no such thing as observation of the inner world, as there is of the outer world.

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Daniel J. Boorstin

Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge.

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Friedrich Schiller

Knowledge, the object of knowledge and the knower are the three factors which motivate action the senses, the work and the doer comprise the threefold basis of action.

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Lord Chesterfield

Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them.

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Novalis

Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.

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