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Quotations by Subject: Knowledge
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If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is no barking dog to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.: Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. (1900 - 1965)
If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.: Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. (1900 - 1965), speech at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, October 8, 1952
Knowledge is like a garden; if it is not cultivated, it cannot be harvested.: African Proverb
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), (attributed)
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.: Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809 - 1892)
Knowledge is essential to conquest; only according to our ignorance are we helpless. Thought creates character. Character can dominate conditions. Will creates circumstances and environment.: Anne Besant (1847 - 1933)
All men by nature desire knowledge.: Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), Metaphysics
Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.: Audre Lorde
It is knowledge that influences and equalizes the social condition of man; that gives to all, however different their political position, passions which are in common, and enjoyments which are universal.: Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.: Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.: Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881), Sybil, 1845
An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
If a man empties his purse into his head no one can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.: Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834 - 1892)
Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge.: Claude Bernard (1813 - 1878)
I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge; I am one who is fond of antiquity, and earnest in seeking it there.: Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC), The Confucian Analects
When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.: Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC), The Confucian Analects
Consider your origin; you were not born to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.: Dante Alighieri (1265 - 1321), The Divine Comedy
Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.: Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849), Berenice
It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.: Enrico Fermi (1901 - 1954)
None of us is as smart as all of us.: Eric Schmidt, University of Pennsylvania Commencement Address, 2009
We have an opportunity for everyone in the world to have access to all the world's information. This has never before been possible. Why is ubiquitous information so profound? It's a tremendous equalizer. Information is power.: Eric Schmidt, University of Pennsylvania Commencement Address, 2009
We have come out of the time when obedience, the acceptance of discipline, intelligent courage, and resolution were most important, into that more difficult time when it is a man's duty to understand his world rather than to simply fight for it.: Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961), 1946
Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person.: Ethel Mumford
The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.: Frank Herbert (1920 - 1986)
A learned man is an idler who kills time with study. Beware of his false knowledge: it is more dangerous than ignorance.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Man and Superman, 1903
We are here and it is now. Further than that all human knowledge is moonshine.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. the only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.: Henry Ford (1863 - 1947)
Abundance of knowledge does not teach men to be wise.: Heraclitus (540 BC - 480 BC)

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