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Quote 3162
We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.by: William JamesShowing Quotes on knowledge
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Quote 3157
In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start.by: William JamesShowing Quotes on knowledge
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Quote 3152
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.by: William JamesShowing Quotes on knowledge
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Quote 3147
Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.by: William JamesShowing Quotes on knowledge
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Quote 3097
Marriage is like wine. It is not be properly judged until the second glass.Showing Quotes on knowledge
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Quote 3043
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.Showing Quotes on knowledge
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Quote 3026
If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must goby: John BurroughsShowing Quotes on knowledge
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Quote 3023
Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moralby: John BurroughsShowing Quotes on knowledge
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Quote 2992
The things we really know are not the things we have merely read about or heard about, but the things we have lived, have experienced, have been sensible ofShowing Quotes on knowledge
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Quote 2987
Knowledge is like a baobab tree - one person's arms are not enough to encompass itAfrican proverbShowing Quotes on knowledge
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Quote 2984
A wise man seeks wisdom; a madman thinks that he has found it.Persian proverbShowing Quotes on knowledge
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Quote 2980
We study ourselves three weeks, we love each other three months, we squabble three years, we tolerate each other thirty years, and then the children start all over againby: Hyppolyte TaineShowing Quotes on knowledge
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Quote 2979
I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of the cats is infinitely superior.by: Hyppolyte TaineShowing Quotes on knowledge
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Quote 2951
It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begunShowing Quotes on knowledge
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Quote 2946
The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to othersby: John LockeShowing Quotes on knowledge
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Quote 2942
No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experienceby: John LockeShowing Quotes on knowledge
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Quote 2929
It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of truthby: John LockeShowing Quotes on knowledge
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Quote 2924
The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of itby: John LockeShowing Quotes on knowledge
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Quote 2917
He that judges without informing himself to the utmost that he is capable, cannot acquit himself of judging amissby: John LockeShowing Quotes on knowledge
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Quote 2900
Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreamsShowing Quotes on knowledge
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Quote 2879
What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemploymentShowing Quotes on knowledge
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Quote 2863
To read means to borrow; to create out of one's readings is paying off one's debtsShowing Quotes on knowledge
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Quote 2860
A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resentsShowing Quotes on knowledge
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Quote 2838
In everything that relates to science, I am a whole Encyclopaedia behind the rest of the world.by: Charles LambShowing Quotes on knowledge
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Quote 2830
Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my lifeby: Charles LambShowing Quotes on knowledge
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