Quotes with knowledge

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  • Bela Lugosi A screen actor is compensated in the knowledge that millions will see his performance at one time, where only hundreds will see it on the stage.
    Bela Lugosi
    Hungarian-American actor (1882 - 1956)
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  • Camille Paglia A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy.
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Cavett Robert A superficial knowledge is not enough. It must be a knowledge capable of analyzing a situation quickly and making an immediate decision.
    Cavett Robert
    American businessman and founder of the National Speakers Association (1907 - 1997)
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  • M. Rutherford A true knowledge of ourselves is knowledge of our power.
    M. Rutherford
    English writer (ps. van William Hale White) (1831 - 1913)
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  • Billy Crudup Acting is an expression of imagination. No firsthand knowledge is necessary.
    Billy Crudup
    American actor (1968 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw Activity is the only road to knowledge.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • John Milton Adam inquires concerning celestial motions, is doubtfully answered, and exhorted to search rather things more worthy of knowledge.
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • Francis H. Bradley Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive.
    Francis H. Bradley
    British Philosopher (1846 - 1924)
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  • Thomas Carlyle After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • J. S. Habgood All knowledge is ambiguous.
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  • Albert Einstein All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Aristotle All men by nature desire knowledge.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Helene Deutsch All observations point to the fact that the intellectual woman is masculinized; in her, warm, intuitive knowledge has yielded to cold unproductive thinking.
    Helene Deutsch
    Polish-American psychoanalyst (1884 - 1982)
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  • Maurice Maeterlinck All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.
    Maurice Maeterlinck
    Belgian poet, playwright and Nobel Prize winner (1911) (1862 - 1949)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson All our progress is an unfolding, like a vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge as the plant has root, bud, and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Roger Bacon 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
    English philosopher and Franciscan (1214 - 1294)
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  • Juvenal All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.
    Juvenal
    Roman poet
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Thomas à Kempis An humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning.
    Thomas à Kempis
    Dutch medieval Augustinian canon, writer and mystic (1380 - 1471)
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  • Marie Carmichael Stopes An impersonal and scientific knowledge of the structure of our bodies is the surest safeguard against prurient curiosity and lascivious gloating.
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