Text Examples for
Knowledge



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Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931):
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more
than much knowledge that is idle.
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Samuel Butler (1835-1902):
Science, after all, is only an expression
for our ignorance of our own ignorance.
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Averroes (1126-1198):
Knowledge is the conformity of the object and the intellect.
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Einstein, Albert (1879-1955):
The most incomprehensible fact about the universe
is that it is comprehensible.
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Aldous Huxley (1894-1963):
Silence is as full of potential wisdom
and wit as the unhewn marble of great sculpture.
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A. Szent-Györgyi (1893-1986):
The essence of science lies not in discovering facts
but in discovering new ways of thinking about them.
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Werner Heisenberg (1901-1976):
An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes
that can be made in his subject and how to avoid them.
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Sir William Bragg (1862 - 1942):
The important thing in science is not so much to obtain
new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them."
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Immanuel Kant (1724-1804):
Science is organized knowledge.
Wisdom is organized life.
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Ernest Rutherford (1871-1937):
True science teaches, above all, to doubt and be ignorant.
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John Dewey (1859-1952):
Every great advance in science has issued
from a new audacity of the imagination.
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Joseph Conrad (1857-1924):
Imagination, not invention, is the
supreme master of art as of life.
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Regret:
It's better to regret something you have done,
than to regret something you haven't done."
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Anton Chekhov (1860-1904):
Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
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Dante Alighieri (1265 - 1321):
The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time.
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Averroes (1126-1198):
There are four things that cannot remain hidden for long:
knowledge, stupidity, wealth and poverty.
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Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (1857-1935):
The impossible today will become possible tomorrow.
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Galileo Galilei (1564-1642):
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered;
the point is to discover them."
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Anatole France (1844-1924):
It is better to understand little than to misunderstand a lot.
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Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827):
Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.
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Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931):
The significance of a man is not in what he attains,
but rather what he longs to attain."
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Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882):
It is the eye which makes the horizon.
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Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616):
The pen is the tongue of the soul.
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René Descartes (1596-1650):
It is not enough to have a good mind.
The main thing is to use it well.
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Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941):
If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out.
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Plato (427 BC-347 BC):
The direction in which education starts a man
will determine his future life.
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Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592):
A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
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Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895):
Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.
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Samuel Johnson (1709-1784):
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves,
or we know where we can find information on it.
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Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC):
Tell me and I will forget.
Show me and I will learn.
Involve me and I will understand.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832):
Thinking is more interesting than knowing,
but less interesting than looking.
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Cato the Elder (234 BC-149 BC); Roman Orator:
Grasp the subject, the words will follow.
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Joseph Joubert (1754-1824):
Imagination is the eye of the soul.
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Edward George Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873):
There is no past, so long as books shall live.
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Bertrand Russell (1872-1970):
Not to be absolutely certain is, I think,
one of the essential things in rationality.
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Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887):
Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
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Helen Keller (1880-1968):
Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived.
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Albert Einstein (1879-1955):
"It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education."
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Immanuel Kant (1724-1804):
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
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Malcolm Forbes (1919-1990):
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
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