Quotes with knowledge

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  • Friedrich Nietzsche Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American poet, philosopher and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton Pedantry is the showy display of knowledge which crams our heads with learned lumber and then takes out our brains to make room for it.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Bill Buford People have all this interest in food. But for most people, it's a mystery how to prepare food. I wanted the knowledge cooks know: the in-your-fingers knowledge you get by doing it over and over.
    Bill Buford
    American author and journalist
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  • Albert J. Nock Perhaps the prevalence of pedantry may be largely accounted for by the common error of thinking that, because useful knowledge should be remembered, any kind of knowledge that is at all worth learning should be remembered too.
    Albert J. Nock
    American libertarian author (1870 - 1945)
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  • Kahlil Gibran Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.
    Kahlil Gibran
    Libian painter and writer (1883 - 1931)
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  • Jonathan Swift Pretense is the overrating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Georges Bernanos Purity is not imposed upon us as though it were a kind of punishment, it is one of those mysterious but obvious conditions of that supernatural knowledge of ourselves in the Divine, which we speak of as faith. Impurity does not destroy this knowledge, it slays our need for it.
    Georges Bernanos
    French writer (1888 - 1948)
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  • John Locke Reading furnishes the mind only with material for knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
    John Locke
    English philosopher (1632 - 1704)
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  • Thomas Arnold Real knowledge, like everything else of value, is not to be obtained easily. It must be worked for, studied for, thought for, and, more that all, must be prayed for.
    Thomas Arnold
    English educator and historian (1795 - 1842)
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  • Oscar Wilde Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live, nor the smallest instinct about when to die.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Neil Armstrong Research is creating new knowledge.
    Neil Armstrong
    American astronaut and engineer (1930 - 2012)
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  • Albrecht Durer Sane judgment abhors nothing so much as a picture perpetrated with no technical knowledge, although with plenty of care and diligence.
    Albrecht Durer
    German painter (1471 - 1528)
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  • Johann Gottfried Von Herder Say oh wise man how you have come to such knowledge? Because I was never ashamed to confess my ignorance and ask others.
    Johann Gottfried Von Herder
    German poet and theologian (1744 - 1803)
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  • Philip K. Dick Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. We can't talk about science, because our knowledge of it is limited and unofficial, and usually our fiction is dreadful.
    Philip K. Dick
    American science fiction writer (1928 - 1982)
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  • Will Durant Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
    Will Durant
    American writer, historian, and philosopher (1885 - 1981)
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  • Alexis Carrel Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for comprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an instrument for acquiring specialized knowledge.
    Alexis Carrel
    French surgeon, anatomist and biologist (1873 - 1944)
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  • Herbert Spencer Science is organized knowledge.
    Herbert Spencer
    British Philosopher (1820 - 1903)
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  • Immanuel Kant Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
    Immanuel Kant
    German philosopher (1724 - 1804)
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  • Thomas Hobbes Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.
    Thomas Hobbes
    British philosopher (1588 - 1679)
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