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Knowledge

Helping someone come to a saving knowledge of Christ is the greatest achievement possible. – Charles Stanley

In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory. – Alfred North Whitehead

Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken. – David Herbert Lawrence

The will to do springs from the knowledge that we can do. – James Allen

We do not need to be shoemakers to know if our shoes fit, and just as little have we any need to be professionals to acquire knowledge of matters of universal interest. – Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live. – Baltasar Gracian

Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases. – Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I would rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent than in the extent of my powers and dominion. – Alexander the Great

Knowledge is the most democratic source of power. – Alvin Toffler

It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance, for it requires knowledge to perceive it and, therefore, he that can perceive it hath it not. – Jeremy Taylor

Research is creating new knowledge. – Neil Armstrong

Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh. – Lord Chesterfield

We must develop knowledge optimization initiatives to leverage our key learnings. – Scott Adams

We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. The state in which we are is sinful, irrespective of guilt. – Franz Kafka

The knowledge I have now is not the knowledge I had then. – Stokely Carmichael

Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it. – Zhuangzi

A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician. – Hippocrates

The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn when teachers themselves are taught to learn. – Bertolt Brecht

Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since. – Abigail Adams

How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room. There is no such thing as observation of the inner world, as there is of the outer world. – Franz Kafka