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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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Quote 2817
The greatest pleasure I know is to do something by stealth and have it found out by accidentby: Charles LambShowing Quotes on knowledge
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Quote 2815
No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference. It is that from which all date their time, and count upon what is left. It is the nativity of our common Adamby: Charles LambShowing Quotes on knowledge
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Quote 2801
The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogsShowing Quotes on knowledge
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Quote 2769
My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconsciousby: Karl KrausShowing Quotes on knowledge
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Quote 2739
The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing , to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts, not a select partyby: John KeatsShowing Quotes on knowledge
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Quote 2701
An extensive knowledge is needful to thinking people- it takes away the heat and fever; and helps, by widening speculation, to ease the burden of the mysteryby: John KeatsShowing Quotes on knowledge
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Quote 2680
People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen somethingShowing Quotes on knowledge
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Quote 2676
Irony is a disciplinarian feared only by those who do not know it, but cherished by those who doShowing Quotes on knowledge
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Quote 2657
Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.Showing Quotes on knowledge
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Quote 2653
The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.Showing Quotes on knowledge
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Quote 2630
Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe.by: Franz KafkaShowing Quotes on knowledge
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Quote 2601
A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of othersShowing Quotes on knowledge
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Quote 2554
The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign landShowing Quotes on knowledge
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Quote 2546
One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any starShowing Quotes on knowledge
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Quote 2540
The disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not know the present. History is a hill or high point of vantage, from which alone men see the town in which they live or the age in which they are livingShowing Quotes on knowledge
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Quote 2535
Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.Showing Quotes on knowledge
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Quote 2524
Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to knowShowing Quotes on knowledge
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Quote 2514
The university brings out all abilities, including incapabilityby: Anton ChekhovShowing Quotes on knowledge
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Quote 2506
Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practiceby: Anton ChekhovShowing Quotes on knowledge
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Quote 2489
Every man is a volume, if you know how to read himShowing Quotes on knowledge
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Quote 2467
Error is discipline through which we advanceShowing Quotes on knowledge
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Quote 2465
Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lostShowing Quotes on knowledge
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Quote 2458
He who is false to the present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and you will see the effect when the weaving of a lifetime is unraveledShowing Quotes on knowledge
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Quote 2451
Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignoranceShowing Quotes on knowledge
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Quote 2439
No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent.Showing Quotes on knowledge
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Quote 2438
It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignityShowing Quotes on knowledge
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Quote 2436
A single hour a day, steadily given to the study of some interesting subject, brings unexpected accumulations of knowledgeShowing Quotes on knowledge
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Quote 2424
The secret of success lies not in doing your own work, but in recognizing the right man to do itby: Andrew CarnegieShowing Quotes on knowledge
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Quote 2384
We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone togetherShowing Quotes on knowledge
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Quote 2354
We come too late to say anything which has not been said alreadyShowing Quotes on knowledge
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Quote 2324
Everything has been said, and we have come too late, now that men have been living and thinking for seven thousand years and moreShowing Quotes on knowledge
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Quote 2303
There, that is our secret: go to sleep! You will wake, and remember, and understandby: Robert BrowningShowing Quotes on knowledge
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Quote 2293
In heaven I yearn for knowledge, account all else inanity; On earth I confess an itch for the praise of fools - that's vanityby: Robert BrowningShowing Quotes on knowledge
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Quote 2243
The secret of joy in work is contained in one word: excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy itShowing Quotes on knowledge
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Quote 2239
The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband's bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool.Showing Quotes on knowledge
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Quote 2232
If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterdayShowing Quotes on knowledge
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Quote 2223
I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to workShowing Quotes on knowledge
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Quote 2189
I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its placeShowing Quotes on knowledge
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Quote 2174
Interest makes some people blind, and others quick-sightedby: Francis BeaumontShowing Quotes on knowledge
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Quote 2168
Earth's crammed with heaven, and every common bush afire with God; but only he who sees, takes off his shoes - the rest sit round it and pluck blackberriesShowing Quotes on knowledge
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Quote 2141
The scientist is a lover of truth for the very love of truth itself, wherever it may leadby: Luther BurbankShowing Quotes on knowledge
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Quote 2138
Science is knowledge arranged and classified according to truth, facts, and the general laws of natureby: Luther BurbankShowing Quotes on knowledge
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Quote 2113
When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.by: William BlakeShowing Quotes on knowledge
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Quote 2109
Enlightenment means taking full responsibility for your life.by: William BlakeShowing Quotes on knowledge
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Quote 2100
Man's desires are limited by his perceptions; none can desire what he has not perceived.by: William BlakeShowing Quotes on knowledge
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Quote 2099
Enthusiastic admiration is the first principle of knowledge and its last.by: William BlakeShowing Quotes on knowledge
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Quote 2092
The true method of knowledge is experiment.by: William BlakeShowing Quotes on knowledge
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Quote 2078
The road to excess leads to the palace of wisdom...for we never know what is enough until we know what is more than enoughby: William BlakeShowing Quotes on knowledge
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Quote 2064
There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to createShowing Quotes on knowledge
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Quote 2053
How many desolate creatures on the earth have learnt the simple dues of fellowship and social comfort, in a hospitalShowing Quotes on knowledge
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Quote 2041
Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddockby: John BarrymoreShowing Quotes on knowledge
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Quote 2040
You can't drown yourself in drink. I've tried, you floatby: John BarrymoreShowing Quotes on knowledge
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Quote 2036
You never realize how short a month is until you pay alimonyby: John BarrymoreShowing Quotes on knowledge
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Quote 2027
Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faultsby: AntisthenesShowing Quotes on knowledge
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Quote 2007
You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairsby: Dante AlighieriShowing Quotes on knowledge
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Quote 2006
Consider your origin; you were not born to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledgeby: Dante AlighieriShowing Quotes on knowledge
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Quote 1996
Who knows, the mind has the key to all things besidesShowing Quotes on knowledge
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Quote 1989
That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profitShowing Quotes on knowledge
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Quote 1984
First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in othersShowing Quotes on knowledge
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Quote 1963
Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may beby: Jane AustenShowing Quotes on knowledge
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Quote 1920
The truest end of life, is to know the life that never endsby: William PennShowing Quotes on knowledge
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Quote 1919
Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime. And, departing, leave behind us; footprints on the sands of time.Showing Quotes on knowledge
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Quote 1849
Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.Showing Quotes on knowledge
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Quote 1829
Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a centuryby: Mark TwainShowing Quotes on knowledge
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Quote 1808
Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above anotherby: Joseph AddisonShowing Quotes on knowledge
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Quote 1782
Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things themselvesby: Joseph AddisonShowing Quotes on knowledge
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Quote 1754
Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperityby: Joseph AddisonShowing Quotes on knowledge
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Quote 1741
The utmost extent of man's knowledge, is to know that he knows nothingby: Joseph AddisonShowing Quotes on knowledge
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Quote 1728
I live in the world rather as a spectator of mankind than as one of the speciesby: Joseph AddisonShowing Quotes on knowledge
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Quote 1717
They know enough who know how to learnShowing Quotes on knowledge
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Quote 1639
Life is half spent before we know what it isby: George HerbertShowing Quotes on knowledge
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Quote 1634
To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.Showing Quotes on knowledge
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Quote 1627
Everything has been figured out, except how to liveby: Jean Paul SartreShowing Quotes on knowledge
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Quote 1568
Men often act knowingly against their interestby: David HumeShowing Quotes on knowledge
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Quote 1563
The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it.Showing Quotes on knowledge
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