Quotes with self-knowledge

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  • Adam Weishaupt G is Grace, the Flaming Star is the Torch of Reason. Those who possess this knowledge are indeed Illuminati.
    Adam Weishaupt
    German philosopher (1748 - 1830)
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  • Karl Albrecht The typical human life seems to be quite unplanned, undirected, unlived, and unsavored. Only those who consciously think about the adventure of living as a matter of making choices among options, which they have found for themselves, ever establish real self-control and live their lives fully.
    Karl Albrecht
    German entrepreneur (1920 - 2014)
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  • Robert Frost Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • Theodore Roosevelt A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • Martin Luther King Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • André Maurois Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them.
    André Maurois
    French writer (ps. van mile Herzog) (1885 - 1967)
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  • Bertolt Brecht The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn when teachers themselves are taught to learn.
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Albert Einstein It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Kofi Annan Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.
    The quotable Kofi Annan: selections from speeches and statements by the Secretary-General (1998)
    Kofi Annan
    Ghanaian diplomat (1938 - 2018)
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  • Joseph Addison Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Thomas Henry Huxley The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
    Thomas Henry Huxley
    English biologist (1825 - 1895)
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  • Freeman Dyson A good cause can become bad if we fight for it with means that are indiscriminately murderous. A bad cause can become good if enough people fight for it in a spirit of comradeship and self-sacrifice. In the end it is how you fight, as much as why you fight, that makes your cause good or bad.
    Freeman Dyson
    American arts, writer (1923 - 2020)
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  • Kahlil Gibran A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
    Kahlil Gibran
    Libian painter and writer (1883 - 1931)
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  • Victor Hugo A saint addicted to excessive self-abnegation is a dangerous associate; he may infect you with poverty, and a stiffening of those joints which are needed for advancement - in a word, with more renunciation than you care for - and so you flee the contagion.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • Voltaire All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Albert Einstein During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Frank Zappa Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. Music is the best.
    Frank Zappa
    American rock musician (1940 - 1993)
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  • George Eliot It is possible to have a strong self-love without any self-satisfaction, rather with a self-discontent which is the more intense because one's own little core of egoistic sensibility is a supreme care.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Calvin Coolidge Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of face within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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