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The unselective knowledge drive resembles the indiscriminate sexual drive--signs of vulgarity!
Wisdom comes from within. Knowledge is acquired and can sometimes put a screen on your wisdom.
I wanted to contribute my time, myself, my knowledge, my love, because Haiti is my everything.
Faith is a fine invention When gentlemen can see, But microscopes are prudent In an emergency.
Nothing inspires more reverence and awe in me than an old man who knows how to change his mind.
If we don't understand phenomena, we are more likely to do things to harm ourselves and others.
Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.
Intelligence and capability are not enough. There must be the joy of doing something beautiful.
The first element of change is awareness. You can’t change something unless you know it exists.
Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge.
To know that you do not know is the best. To pretend to know when you do not know is a disease.
International relationships are preordained to be clumsy gestures based on imperfect knowledge.
And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.
All parts of knowledge have their origin in metaphysics, and finally, perhaps, revolve into it.
Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.
The greatest derangement of the mind is to believe in something because one wishes it to be so.
I think in most jobs, you get better as you get older. You gain experience, you gain knowledge.
There's no such thing is aging, but maturing and knowledge. It's beautiful, I call that beauty.
Sometimes one has to say difficult things, but one ought to say them as simply as one knows how.
In the medical profession a horse and carriage are more necessary than any scientific knowledge.
What you know is a club for yourself, and what you don't know is a meat-ax for the other fellow.
For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible.
The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life.
Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.
When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.
There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.
What makes knowledge automatic is what gets you to Carnegie Hall - practice, practice, practice.
He is wise who knows the sources of knowledge - where it is written and where it is to be found.
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad.
Confidence is ignorance. If you're feeling cocky, it's because there's something you don't know.
A good library is a place, a palace where the lofty spirits of all nations and generations meet.
Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give lustre, and many more people see than weigh.
I think it is totally wrong and terribly harmful if education is defined as acquiring knowledge.
It is the vice of scholars to suppose that there is no knowledge in the world but that of books.
We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.
To attain any assured knowledge about the soul is one of the most difficult things in the world.
If there is a problem you can't solve, then there is an easier problem you can't solve: find it.
One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge.
Life can give everything to whoever tries to understand and is willing to receive new knowledge.
Knowledge is power only when put to use - and then only when the use made of it is constructive.
Theory is knowledge that doesn't work. Practice is when everything works and you don't know why.
Let us democratise knowledge. Let us universalise justice. Together, let us globalise compassion!
Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg, by the side of which more will be laid.
To the modern spirit nothing is, or can be rightly known, except relatively and under conditions.
I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.
Giving a poor person money keeps them poorer longer...often forever; give them knowledge instead.
A man only learns by two things; one is reading and the other is association with smarter people.
Scientific knowledge is in perpetual evolution; it finds itself changed from one day to the next.
Children with Hyacinth's temperament don't know better as they grow older; they merely know more.