| Much learning does not teach understanding. -- Heraclitus |
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HeraclitusEra:
-535 |
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| Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people. -- John Adams |
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Adams, JohnEra:
1735 |
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| If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants. -- Lao-Tzu |
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Lao-TzuEra:
-604 |
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| The senses collect the surface facts of matter...It was sensation; when memory came, it was experience; when mind acted, it was knowledge; when mind acted on it as knowledge, it was thought. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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Emerson, Ralph WaldoEra:
1803 |
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| Learning is its own exceeding great reward. -- William Hazlitt |
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Hazlitt, WilliamEra:
1778 |
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| I'm not smart, but I like to observe. Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why. -- Bernard Mannes Baruch |
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Baruch, Bernard MannesEra:
1870 |
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| Hath God obliged himself not to exceed the bounds of our knowledge? -- Michel De Montaigne |
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Montaigne, Michel DeEra:
1533 |
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| We are sinful not merely because we have eaten of the tree of knowledge, but also because we have not eaten of the tree of life. -- Franz Kafka |
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Kafka, FranzEra:
1883 |
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| The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant. -- Plato |
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PlatoEra:
-427 |
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| The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners. -- Thomas B. Macaulay |
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Macaulay, Thomas B.Era:
1800 |
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| We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities...still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin. -- Charles Darwin |
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Darwin, CharlesEra:
1809 |
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| If a man will begin with certainties, he will end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he will end in certainties. -- Francis Bacon |
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Bacon, FrancisEra:
1561 |
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| Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control, these three alone lead life to sovereign power. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson |
| Author:
Tennyson, Alfred LordEra:
1809 |
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| If thou would'st have that stream of hard-earn'd knowledge, of Wisdom heaven-born, remain sweet running waters, thou should'st not leave it to become a stagnant pond. -- H. P. Blavatsky |
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Blavatsky, H. P.Era:
1831 |
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| Let this be an example for the acquisition of all knowledge,virtue, and riches. By the fall of drops of water, by degrees, a pot is filled. -- The Hitopadesa |
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Hitopadesa, TheEra:
600 |
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| Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms. -- Wendell Phillips |
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Phillips, WendellEra:
1811 |
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| Seldom ever was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment. -- Joseph Hall |
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Hall, JosephEra:
1574 |
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| Two stones build two houses, three stones build six houses, four build twenty-four houses, five build one hundred and twenty houses, six build seven hundred and twenty houses and seven build five thousand and forty houses. From thence further go and reckon what the mouth cannot express and the ear cannot hear. -- Sepher Yezirah |
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Yezirah, SepherEra:
-2000 |
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| Zeal without knowledge is the sister of folly. -- John Davies |
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Davies, JohnEra:
1570 |
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| He that hath knowledge spareth his words. -- Proverbs |
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ProverbsEra:
-1000 |
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| All our progress is an unfolding, like the vegetable bud, you have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as the plant has root, bud and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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Emerson, Ralph WaldoEra:
1803 |
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| knowledge comes by eyes always open and working hard, and there is no knowledge that is not power. -- Jeremy Taylor |
| Author:
Taylor, JeremyEra:
1613 |
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| In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance. -- Henry Miller |
| Author:
Miller, HenryEra:
1891 |
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| Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven. -- William Shakespeare |
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Shakespeare, WilliamEra:
1564 |
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| Of all men's miseries the bitterest is this: to know so much and to have control over nothing. -- Herodotus |
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HerodotusEra:
-484 |
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| Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise. -- Samuel Johnson |
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Johnson, SamuelEra:
1709 |
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| Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions. -- Roger Babson |
| Author:
Babson, RogerEra:
1875 |
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| The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance. -- Diogenes Laertius |
| Author:
Laertius, DiogenesEra:
-150 |
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| knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give lustre, and many more people see than weigh. -- Philip D. Stanhope |
| Author:
Stanhope, Philip D.Era:
1584 |
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| 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. -- Bhagavad Gita |
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Gita, BhagavadEra:
-400 |
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| Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge. -- Claude Bernard |
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Bernard, ClaudeEra:
1813 |
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| If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger? -- Thomas H. Huxley |
| Author:
Huxley, Thomas H.Era:
1825 |
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| The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth. -- John F. Kennedy |
| Author:
Kennedy, John F.Era:
1917 |
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| Moderation, which consists in an indifference about little things, and in a prudent and well-proportioned zeal about things of importance, can proceed from nothing but true knowledge, which has its foundation in self-acquaintance. -- Chatham |
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ChathamEra:
1708 |
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| knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom. -- Plato |
| Author:
PlatoEra:
-427 |
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