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We should desire very few things passionately if we did but perfectly know the nature of the things we desire.
Knowledge is not a guarantee of good political behavior, but ignorance is a virtual guarantee of bad behavior.
Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.
They don't understand that a slice of the pie isn't the whole pie - but they wonder why they are always hungry
Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world.
It seems to me that philosophers should be more relaxed about whether or not some form of materialism is true.
Action not backed by knowledge and knowledge not translatable into action, both can not stand the test of time.
Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.
All of us perform better and more willingly when we know why we're doing what we have been told or asked to do.
The more one gardens, the more one learns; And the more one learns, the more one realizes how little one knows.
Sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly.
I know somewhat too much; and from this knowledge, once one has been infected, there seems to be no recovering.
Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.
The acquisition of knowledge always involves the revelation of ignorance-almost is the revelation of ignorance.
Reading is at the center of our lives. The library is our brain. Without the library, you have no civilization.
Knowledge has been a passion with me during my whole life, one which has not lost its charm to the present day.
An organsation's results are determined through webs of human commitments, born in webs of human conversations.
To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.
If you wish to know yourself observe how others act. If you wish to understand others look into your own heart.
I feel like we can learn from each other by us, being the young generation, giving knowledge to the older guys.
The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.
Lecture is the transfer of the notes of the lecturer to the notes of the student without passing through either.
Such is the constitution of the human mind, that any kind of knowledge, if it be really such, is its own reward.
Knowledge of other people's beliefs and ways of thinking must be used to build bridges, not to create conflicts.
The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.
To know all, it is necessary to know very little; but to know that very little, one must first know pretty much.
We do not learn much from learned books, but from true, sincere, human books, from frank and honest biographies.
Contempt for China on the part of the enemy is his weak point. Knowledge of this weak point is our strong point.
New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.
All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood; if they are not, they are not great truths.
Like all science, psychology is knowledge; and like science again, it is knowledge of a definite thing, the mind.
Knowledge is not happiness, and science But an exchange of ignorance for that Which is another kind of ignorance.
Where there is the tree of knowledge, there is always Paradise: so say the most ancient and most modern serpents.
Men are not created to know, men are not created to understand ... and our illusions increase with our knowledge.
The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.
It is disgraceful to live as a stranger in one's country, and be an alien in any matter that affects our welfare.
Pursue science because it is knowledge, because it broadens our horizons. There is so much more to be discovered.
The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.
Forecasters tend to learn less and less about more and more, until in the end they know nothing about everything.
A warrior of light who trusts too much in his intelligence will end up underestimating the power of his opponent.
What can give us more sure knowledge than our senses? How else can we distinguish between the true and the false?
Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.
To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.
Science sans conscience n' est que le ruine de l'âme. Knowledge without conscience is but the ruine of the soule.
We must never forget that higher knowledge has to do with revering truth and insight and not with revering people.
You must treat the days respectfully, you must be a day yourself, and not interrogate it like a college professor.
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.
Knowledge without know-how is sterile. We use the word academic in a pejorative sense to identify this limitation.
I feel like knowledge is power: If you know how to take care of yourself, you can be a better version of yourself.