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| The true sign of intelligence is not KNOWLEDGE but imagination. | Albert Einstein | 1879-1955, German-born American Physicist |
| As we acquire more KNOWLEDGE, things do not become more comprehensible but more mysterious. | Albert Schweitzer | 1875-1965, German Born Medical Missionary, Theologian, Musician, and Philosopher |
| A little KNOWLEDGE is a dangerous thing. Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring; There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain; And drinking largely sobers us again. | Alexander Pope | 1688-1744, British Poet, Critic, Translator |
| In the electronic age, books, words and reading are not likely to remain sufficiently authoritative and central to KNOWLEDGE to justify literature. | Alvin Kernan | 1923-, American Educator |
| Never stop learning; KNOWLEDGE doubles every fourteen months. | Anthony J. D'Angelo | |
| Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of KNOWLEDGE that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future. | Brian Tracy | American Trainer, Speaker, Author, Businessman |
| 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 | 1947-, American Author, Critic, Educator |
| The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is the KNOWLEDGE of our own ignorance. | Charles Haddon Spurgeon | 1834-1892, British Baptist Preacher |
| A people's literature is the great textbook for real KNOWLEDGE of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no historical reconstruction can. | Edith Hamilton | 1867-1963, American Classical Scholar, Translator |
| Socrates gave no diplomas or degrees, and would have subjected any disciple who demanded one to a disconcerting catechism on the nature of true KNOWLEDGE. | G. M. Trevelyan | 1876-1962, British Historian |
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| The chief KNOWLEDGE that a man gets from reading books is the KNOWLEDGE that very few of them are worth reading. | H. L. Mencken | 1880-1956, American Editor, Author, Critic, Humorist |
| Reading furnishes the mind only with material for KNOWLEDGE; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. | John Locke | 1632-1704, British Philosopher |
| Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of KNOWLEDGE. | John Wesley | 1703-1791, British Preacher, Founder of Methodism |
| The true KNOWLEDGE or science which exists nowhere but in the mind itself, has no other entity at all besides intelligibility; and therefore whatsoever is clearly intelligible, is absolutely true. | Ralph J. Cudworth | 1617-1688, British Theologian, Philosopher |
| Madam, a circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical KNOWLEDGE; it blossoms through the year. And depend on it that they who are so fond of handling the leaves, will long for the fruit at last. | Richard Brinsley Sheridan | 1751-1816, Anglo-Irish Dramatist |
| A thorough KNOWLEDGE of the Bible is worth more than a college education. | Theodore Roosevelt | 1858-1919, Twenty-sixth President of the USA |
| 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 | 1795-1881, Scottish Philosopher, Author |
| The medieval university looked backwards; it professed to be a storehouse of old KNOWLEDGE. The modern university looks forward, and is a factory of new KNOWLEDGE. | Thomas H. Huxley | 1825-1895, British Biologist, Educator |
| Do not worry about the incarnation of ideas. If you are a poet, your works will contain them without your KNOWLEDGE -- they will be both moral and national if you follow your inspiration freely. | Vissarion Belinsky | |
| I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes to get rich by credit, to get KNOWLEDGE by raps on midnight tables, to learn the economy of the mind by phrenology, or skill without study, or mastery without apprenticeship. | Ralph Waldo Emerson | 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist |
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| During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an irreconcilable conflict between KNOWLEDGE and belief. | Albert Einstein | 1879-1955, German-born American Physicist |
| KNOWLEDGE of what is does not open the door directly to what should be. | Albert Einstein | 1879-1955, German-born American Physicist |
| Man knows more than he understands. | Alfred Adler | 1870-1937, Austrian Psychiatrist |
| KNOWLEDGE is the most democratic source of power. | Alvin Toffler | 1928-, American Author |
| KNOWLEDGE is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify. | Ambrose Bierce | 1842-1914, American Author, Editor, Journalist, ''The Devil's Dictionary'' |
| Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly. | Andre Gide | 1869-1951, French Author |
| It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know. | Anthony Robbins | 1960-, American Author, Speaker, Peak Performance Expert / Consultant |
| Only divine love bestows the keys of KNOWLEDGE. | Arthur Rimbaud | 1854-1891, French Poet |
| Each department of KNOWLEDGE passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage. | Auguste Comte | 1798-1857, French Founder of Positivist Philosophy |
| True KNOWLEDGE lies in knowing how to live. | Baltasar Gracian | 1601-1658, Spanish Philosopher, Writer |
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| Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't. | Benjamin Franklin | 1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat |
| God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough KNOWLEDGE of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: This is my country! | Benjamin Franklin | 1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat |
| There is much pleasure to be gained from useless KNOWLEDGE. | Bertrand Russell | 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist |
| The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's KNOWLEDGE of the facts- the less you know the hotter you get. | Bertrand Russell | 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist |
| Better indeed is KNOWLEDGE than mechanical practice. Better than KNOWLEDGE is meditation. But better still is surrender of attachment to results, because there follows immediate peace. | Bhagavad Gita | c. BC 400-, Sanskrit Poem Incorporated Into the Mahabharata |
| And you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free. [John 8:32] | Bible | Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism |
| The fear of the Lord is the beginning of KNOWLEDGE, but fools despise wisdom and instruction. [King Solomon] | Bible | Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism |
| Seldom if ever was KNOWLEDGE given to keep, but always to impart. The grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment. | Bishop Hall | |
| There is no KNOWLEDGE, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source. | Brigham Young | 1801-1877, American Mormon Leader |
| You can't know too much, but you can say too much. | Calvin Coolidge | 1872-1933, Thirtieth President of the USA |
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| KNOWLEDGE rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also. | Carl Jung | 1875-1961, Swiss Psychiatrist |
| A man of KNOWLEDGE lives by acting, not by thinking about acting. | Carlos Castaneda | American Anthropologist, Author |
| The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn. | Caryl Haskins | |
| A superficial KNOWLEDGE is not enough. It must be a KNOWLEDGE capable of analyzing a situation quickly and making an immediate decision. | Cavett Robert | |
| To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for KNOWLEDGE of it. | Charles Caleb Colton | 1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer |
| We own almost all our KNOWLEDGE not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed. | Charles Caleb Colton | 1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer |
| When you cease to strive to understand, then you will know without understanding. | Chinese Proverb | Sayings of Chinese Origin |
| KNOWLEDGE is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize. | Christopher Lasch | 1932-, American Historian |
| When a person acts without KNOWLEDGE of what he thinks, feels, needs or wants, he does not yet have the option of choosing to act differently. | Clark Moustakas | Humanistic Psychologist |
| It is what we think we know already that often prevents us from learning. | Claude Bernard | 1813-1878, French Physiologist |
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