975 private quotes tagged knowledge

“There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge - that is everywhere.” — Hermann Hesse

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“The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.” — Rene Descartes

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“Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.” — Thucydides

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“The age we live in is a busy age in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection.” — Jeremy Bentham

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“I don't think any person has any special knowledge about what God has planned for me and you any more than me and you do.” — Willie Nelson

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“It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.” — Carl Friedrich Gauss

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“If knowledge and foresight are too penetrating and deep, unify them with ease and sincerity.” — Xun Zi

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“In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.” — George Herbert

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“A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality.” — Milan Kundera

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“If in preaching the gospel you substitute your knowledge of the way of salvation for confidence in the power of the gospel, you hinder people from getting to reality.” — Oswald Chambers

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“Men are limited by the knowledge of their minds, the worth of their characters and the principles upon which they are building their lives.” — Edwin Louis Cole

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“With our knowledge of modern-day genetics, we realize that it was possible for God to place the potential for all people throughout history into the genes of Adam and Eve when He created them.” — Walter Lang

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“What does mysticism really mean? It means the way to attain knowledge. It's close to philosophy, except in philosophy you go horizontally while in mysticism you go vertically.” — Elie Wiesel

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“Sin, guilt, neurosis they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.” — Henry Miller

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“The apple cannot be stuck back on the Tree of Knowledge once we begin to see, we are doomed and challenged to seek the strength to see more, not less.” — Arthur Miller

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“To those who have chosen the profession of medicine, a knowledge of chemistry, and of some branches of natural history, and, indeed, of several other departments of science, affords useful assistance.” — Charles Babbage

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“All science requires mathematics. The knowledge of mathematical things is almost innate in us. This is the easiest of sciences, a fact which is obvious in that no one's brain rejects it for laymen and people who are utterly illiterate know how to count and reckon.” — Roger Bacon

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“Knowledge is not eating, and we cannot expect to devour and possess what we mean. Knowledge is recognition of something absent it is a salutation, not an embrace.” — George Santayana

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“When you deal with a person who's experiencing dementia, you can see where they're struggling with knowledge. You can see what they forget completely, what they forget but they know what they once knew. You can tell how they're trying to remember.” — Walter Mosley

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“Knowledge fills a large brain it merely inflates a small one.” — Sydney J. Harris

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“Building technical systems involves a lot of hard work and specialized knowledge: languages and protocols, coding and debugging, testing and refactoring.” — Jesse James Garrett

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“What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.” — Georg C. Lichtenberg

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“People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding.” — Van Wyck Brooks

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“It created a global platform that allowed more people to plug and play, collaborate and compete, share knowledge and share work, than anything we have ever seen in the history of the world.” — Thomas Friedman

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“Effective use of Braille is as important to the blind as independent mobility, knowledge in the use of adaptive technology, and the core belief that equality, opportunity and security are truly possible for all people who are blind.” — Bob Ney

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