Quotes with knowledge-based

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  • Winston Churchill If you have knowledge, let others light their candles with it.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Barbara McClintock If you know you are on the right track, if you have this inner knowledge, then nobody can turn you off... no matter what they say.
    Barbara McClintock
    American scientist and cytogeneticist (1902 - 1992)
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  • Sidney Madwed If you want to be truly successful invest in yourself to get the knowledge you need to find your unique factor. When you find it and focus on it and persevere your success will blossom.
    Sidney Madwed
    American business consultant, lyricist and author
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  • Mao Tse-Tung If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.
    Mao Tse-Tung
    Chinese politician (1893 - 1976)
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  • Caroline B. Cooney If you write a story based on a real person, you're trapped by the details of the real person and his life. It gets in the way of writing your own story.
    Caroline B. Cooney
    American author
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  • Branford Marsalis If you're going to use standards as criteria for signing musicians, you can sign thousands. If you're going to use some sort of conceptual interpretation that's based on the tradition of those standards, but is trying to move away from it, you're down to about 10 people or so.
    Branford Marsalis
    American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (1960 - )
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  • Kofi Annan Ignorance and prejudice are the handmaidens of propaganda. Our mission, therefore, is to confront ignorance with knowledge, bigotry with tolerance, and isolation with the outstretched hand of generosity. Racism can, will, and must be defeated.
    Kofi Annan
    Ghanaian diplomat (1938 - 2018)
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  • Horace Mann Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge.
    Horace Mann
    American educator (1796 - 1859)
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  • Thucydides Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.
    Thucydides
    Athenian historian and general (460 - 400)
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  • William Shakespeare Ignorance is the curse of God, knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Marcel Proust Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge we make promise only; pain we obey.
    Marcel Proust
    French writer and critic (1871 - 1922)
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  • Albert Einstein Imagination is more important than knowledge
    The Saturday Evening Post (1929)
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • George Bernard Shaw In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred; it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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  • Carroll Quigley In addition to their power over government based on government financing and personal influence, bankers could steer governments in ways they wished them to go by other pressures.
    Carroll Quigley
    American historian and theorist (1910 - 1977)
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  • George Herbert In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.
    George Herbert
    English poet (1593 - 1633)
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  • Alfred N. 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.
    Alfred N. Whitehead
    English philosopher and mathematician (1861 - 1947)
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  • Bruce Lee In Jeet Kune Do, it's not how much you have learned, but how much you have absorbed from what you have learned. It is not how much fixed knowledge you can accumulate, but what you can apply livingly that counts. 'Being' is more valued than doing.
    The Warrior Within : The Philosophies of Bruce Lee (1996)
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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  • Benjamin N. Cardozo In law, as in every other branch of knowledge, the truths given by induction tend to form the premises for new deductions. The lawyers and the judges of successive generations do not repeat for themselves the process of verification any more than most of us repeat the demonstrations of the truths of astronomy or physics.
    Benjamin N. Cardozo
    American lawyer and jurist (1870 - 1938)
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  • Sir Isaac Newton In science we resemble children collecting a few pebbles at the beach of knowledge, while the wide ocean of the unknown unfolds itself in front of us.
    Sir Isaac Newton
    British scientist, mathematician (1643 - 1727)
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