Quotes with knowledge

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  • Bayard Taylor To learn by observation is traveling, people must also bring knowledge with them.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Phillips Brooks To say, ''well done'' to any bit of good work is to take hold of the powers which have made the effort and strengthen them beyond our knowledge.
    Phillips Brooks
    American Minister, Poet (1835 - 1893)
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  • Bill Shorten To the best of my knowledge, when I became national secretary and, indeed, Victorian secretary, the - my predecessors in the union had detected wrong activities, activities which aren't in the best traditions of the AWU or, indeed, trade unionism.
    Bill Shorten
    Australian politician (1967 - )
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  • Peter F. Drucker Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.
    Peter F. Drucker
    American management consultant and writer (1909 - 2005)
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  • Henry David Thoreau True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Baltasar Gracián True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.
    Baltasar Gracián
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • David Mitchell True knowledge without experience is food without sustenance.
    Wolkenatlas (2008) 226
    David Mitchell
    English novelist and screenwriter (1969 - )
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  • Leo Tolstoy True science investigates and brings to human perception such truths and such knowledge as the people of a given time and society consider most important. Art transmits these truths from the region of perception to the region of emotion.
    Leo Tolstoy
    Russian writer (1828 - 1910)
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  • Albert J. Nock Useless knowledge can be made directly contributory to a force of sound and disinterested public opinion.
    Albert J. Nock
    American libertarian author (1870 - 1945)
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  • Blaise Pascal Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Anne Rice Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ASK. On the contrary, they try to wring from the unknown the answers they have already shaped in their own minds.
    Anne Rice
    American author of gothic fiction (1941 - 2021)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Lady Mary Wortley Montagu We are educated in the grossest ignorance, and no art omitted to stifle our natural reason; if some few get above their nurses instructions, our knowledge must rest concealed and be as useless to the world as gold in the mine.
    Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
    English writer (1689 - 1762)
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  • Eric Hoffer We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung We can keep from a child all knowledge of earlier myths, but we cannot take from him the need for mythology.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Aldous Huxley We can only love what we know, and we can never know completely what we do not love. Love is a mode of knowledge.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • G.W.F. Hegel We do not need to be shoemakers to know if our shoes fit, and just as little have we any need to be professionals to acquire knowledge of matters of universal interest.
    G.W.F. Hegel
    German philosopher (1770 - 1831)
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  • Eric Hoffer We find it hard to apply the knowledge of ourselves to our judgment of others. The fact that we are never of one kind, that we never love without reservations and never hate with all our being cannot prevent us from seeing others as wholly black or white.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Anne Sullivan Macy We have no firm hold on any knowledge or philosophy that can lift us out of our difficulties.
    Anne Sullivan Macy
    American teacher (1866 - 1936)
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