Knowledge is Power: Enlightening Quotes on Learning and Growth - Page 12

Explore the depths of knowledge with quotes that inspire learning and personal growth. Wisdom from the ages for today’s seekers. Page 12 provides more knowledge quotes.

Image of Mary Astell
We all agree that its fit to be as Happy as we can, and we need no Instructor to teach us this Knowledge, 'tis born with us, and is inseparable from our Being, but we very much need to be Inform'd what is the true Way to Happiness.
- Mary Astell
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Image of William S. Burroughs
No body of knowledge needs an organizational policy. Organizational policy can only impede the advancement of knowledge. There is a basic incompatibility between any organization and freedom of thought.
- William S. Burroughs
Collection: Knowledge
Image of Andre Geim
The consequences of a lack of new knowledge is decades of stagnation: the next generation will be poorer than this one.
- Andre Geim
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Image of Karen Armstrong
Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day.
- Karen Armstrong
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Image of Steven Johnson
Calculus, the electrical battery, the telephone, the steam engine, the radio - all these groundbreaking innovations were hit upon by multiple inventors working in parallel with no knowledge of one another.
- Steven Johnson
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Image of Nancy Pearcey
Urban areas tend to attract members of the 'knowledge class' - people who work with ideas, data, information.
- Nancy Pearcey
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Image of Amelia Barr
Human relations are built on feeling, not on reason or knowledge. And feeling is not an exact science; like all spiritual qualities, it has the vagueness of greatness about it.
- Amelia Barr
Collection: Knowledge
Image of George Jackson
But now with the living conditions deteriorating, and with the sure knowledge that we are slated for destruction, we have been transformed into an implacable army of liberation.
- George Jackson
Collection: Knowledge
Image of Seth MacFarlane
There have to be people who are vocal about the advancement of knowledge over faith.
- Seth MacFarlane
Collection: Knowledge
Image of Jean-Francois Lyotard
What guides Marxism, then, is a different model of society, and a different conception of the function of the knowledge that can be produced by society and acquired from it.
- Jean-Francois Lyotard
Collection: Knowledge
Image of Mickey Spillane
If you're a singer you lose your voice. A baseball player loses his arm. A writer gets more knowledge, and if he's good, the older he gets, the better he writes.
- Mickey Spillane
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Image of Tom Holland
I had acquired the skills to sail a ship; I didn't acquire the knowledge.
- Tom Holland
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Image of Walter Mosley
When you deal with a person who's experiencing dementia, you can see where they're struggling with knowledge. You can see what they forget completely, what they forget but they know what they once knew. You can tell how they're trying to remember.
- Walter Mosley
Collection: Knowledge
Image of Emile Durkheim
The liberal professions, and in a wider sense the well-to-do classes, are certainly those with the liveliest taste for knowledge and the most active intellectual life.
- Emile Durkheim
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Image of Francis Bacon
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
- Francis Bacon
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Image of Laurence Olivier
I don't know what is better than the work that is given to the actor - to teach the human heart the knowledge of itself.
- Laurence Olivier
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Image of Jean Piaget
The current state of knowledge is a moment in history, changing just as rapidly as the state of knowledge in the past has ever changed and, in many instances, more rapidly.
- Jean Piaget
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Image of George Harrison
To the best of my knowledge, none of the Beatles can read music.
- George Harrison
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Image of John Wycliffe
In order to the existence of such a ministry in the Church, there is requisite an authority received from God, and consequently power and knowledge imparted from God for the exercise of such ministry; and where a man possesses these, although the bishop has not laid hands upon him according to his traditions, God has Himself appointed him.
- John Wycliffe
Collection: Knowledge
Image of Brigham Young
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
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Image of Clifford Geertz
We need to think more about the nature of rhetoric in anthropology. There isn't a body of knowledge and thought to fall back on in this regard.
- Clifford Geertz
Collection: Knowledge
Image of Jamais Cascio
When we developed written language, we significantly increased our functional memory and our ability to share insights and knowledge across time and space. The same thing happened with the invention of the printing press, the telegraph, and the radio.
- Jamais Cascio
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Image of George Bernard Shaw
In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win.
- George Bernard Shaw
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Image of Kenny Omega
I have a vision for what I want wrestling to be, and I was fortunate not just to have the opportunity to show my talents at the right time, and not just to have the right opponents, and not just to have the knowledge that the front office has faith in me, but also the good fortune not to get hurt in the middle of all this.
- Kenny Omega
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Image of George Best
From the FA to UEFA and FIFA, there's a naivety, a lack of knowledge and understanding and packed with people who are out of touch.
- George Best
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Image of KSI
I wasn't really into school that much. I was in this building having to cram knowledge I didn't really care for. But on YouTube, I was able to create what I wanted and post it for people to watch.
- KSI
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Image of Francis Bacon
He that hath knowledge spareth his words.
- Francis Bacon
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Image of Franz Grillparzer
Those who want to row on the ocean of human knowledge do not get far, and the storm drives those out of their course who set sail.
- Franz Grillparzer
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Image of Issa Rae
It's a bit cliche, but you can't go wrong by writing what you know. Even if you're a horrible writer, your own knowledge and experience is unrivaled. Nobody knows what you know like you know what you know. The way you see things is pretty unique.
- Issa Rae
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Image of Kay Redfield Jamison
Knowledge is marvelous, but wisdom is even better.
- Kay Redfield Jamison
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Image of Dale Archer
To my knowledge, there have been no studies done on the effects of antidepressants and altitude. But it is hugely important to find out if there are side effects. We should also find out what are the effects on fine motor skills and reaction time. These are all important questions that should be assessed.
- Dale Archer
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Image of John Tukey
In rating ease of description as very important, we are essentially asserting a belief in quantitative knowledge - a belief that most of the key questions in our world sooner or later demand answers to 'by how much?' rather than merely to 'in which direction?'
- John Tukey
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Image of Neymar
Before speaking without knowledge, saying lies, you have to present evidence.
- Neymar
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Image of Sydney J. Harris
Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.
- Sydney J. Harris
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Image of Bobby Wagner
All the knowledge that I get, all the access that I get, I try to pass that down. And not open a door, and close it behind me. But open a door and see how many people behind me that I can pull in with me, and start showing the value of diversity, the value of having that different perspective than yours.
- Bobby Wagner
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Image of James Stephens
Knowledge, may it be said, is higher than magic and is more to be sought. It is quite possible to see what is happening and yet not know what is forward, for while seeing is believing, it does not follow that either seeing or believing is knowing.
- James Stephens
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Image of Abbott L. Lowell
Your aim will be knowledge and wisdom, not the reflected glamour of fame.
- Abbott L. Lowell
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Image of David A. Bednar
Testimony is personal knowledge, based upon the witness of the Holy Ghost, that certain facts of eternal significance are true.
- David A. Bednar
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Image of RJ Barrett
Don't be afraid to ask questions. People have a lot of knowledge.
- RJ Barrett
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Image of Jean Piaget
Scientific knowledge is in perpetual evolution; it finds itself changed from one day to the next.
- Jean Piaget
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Image of Tom Landry
As a Christian, I know my life is in God's hands. He has a plan for me. Therefore, I never worry about tomorrow or never worry about winning or losing football games. That knowledge gives me a lot of composure in tough situations.
- Tom Landry
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Image of Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
We bequeath to you, the next generation, our knowledge but also our problems. While we still live, let us join hands, hearts and minds to work together for their solution so that your world will be better than ours and the world of your children even better.
- Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
Collection: Knowledge
Image of Rudolf Steiner
Knowledge has value only insofar as it contributes to the all-round development of the whole nature of man.
- Rudolf Steiner
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Image of Michael Imperioli
There's an intelligence that goes with being a good cop. Intuitiveness - they have to be actors; they have to have deductive reasoning, knowledge about a great deal of subjects.
- Michael Imperioli
Collection: Knowledge
Image of Scottie Pippen
It's always been a passion of mine to come out and share some of my knowledge about basketball and the experiences I've had with the younger generation.
- Scottie Pippen
Collection: Knowledge
Image of Alex Trebek
My life has been a quest for knowledge and understanding, and I am nowhere near having achieved that. And it doesn't bother me in the least. I will die without having come up with the answers to many things in life.
- Alex Trebek
Collection: Knowledge
Image of Pierre Curie
Is it right to probe so deeply into Nature's secrets? The question must here be raised whether it will benefit mankind, or whether the knowledge will be harmful.
- Pierre Curie
Collection: Knowledge
Image of Charles Hodge
The ultimate ground of faith and knowledge is confidence in God.
- Charles Hodge
Collection: Knowledge
Image of Dasha Zhukova
There is a huge thirst for knowledge among the younger generation for contemporary art, but most of them learn about it by going on the Internet.
- Dasha Zhukova
Collection: Knowledge