Quotes with knowledge

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  • Confucius The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Ban Ki-moon The explosion in access to mobile phones and digital services means that people everywhere are contributing vast amounts of information to the global knowledge warehouse. Moreover, they are doing so for free, just by communicating, buying and selling goods and going about their daily lives.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Leo Buscaglia The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another s, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.
    Leo Buscaglia
    American author and motivational speaker (1924 - 1998)
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  • Seneca The first step in a person's salvation is knowledge of their sin.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Augustus William Hare The first step to self-knowledge is self-distrust. Nor can we attain to any kind of knowledge, except by a like process.
    Augustus William Hare
    British writer (1792 - 1834)
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  • Richard Cecil The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
    Richard Cecil
    British Evangelical Anglican priest (1748 - 1810)
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Albert Einstein The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Henry Miller The gap between knowledge and truth is infinite.
    Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch Ch. 10
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • John F. Kennedy The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Bertrand Russell The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • John F. Kennedy The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Elizabeth Hardwick The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.
    Elizabeth Hardwick
    American literary critic, novelist, and short story writer (1916 - 2007)
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  • Daniel J. Boorstin The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.
    Daniel J. Boorstin
    American historian (1914 - 2004)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld The height of ability consists in a thorough knowledge of the real value of things, and of the genius of the age in which we live.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • John Locke The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.
    John Locke
    English philosopher (1632 - 1704)
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  • Barry Eisler The Internet is a limitless library at your fingertips. It's a great place to start with the acquisition of knowledge. My process is to go to a place when I'm writing about it. Nothing captures the essence, feeling and flavor of a place better than when I'm actually there and doing the writing.
    Barry Eisler
    American novelist
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  • Meister Eckhart The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge.
    Meister Eckhart
    German mystic (1260 - 1328)
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  • Avicenna The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes.
    Avicenna
    Persian polymath (0 - 1037)
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