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Knowledge

There are in fact two things, science and opinion the former begets knowledge, the later ignorance. – Hippocrates

The apple cannot be stuck back on the Tree of Knowledge once we begin to see, we are doomed and challenged to seek the strength to see more, not less. – Arthur Miller

There is a general knowledge that I am multi-dimensional, that when you are creative you do a lot of things. – Suzanne Somers

Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it. – Laurence Sterne

If knowledge and foresight are too penetrating and deep, unify them with ease and sincerity. – Xun Zi

Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ. – John Calvin

It is remarkable how many misconceptions there are here about life in the developing world and I think that that knowledge gap has done a lot to contribute to the imbalance quite frankly. – Emma Thompson

G is Grace, the Flaming Star is the Torch of Reason. Those who possess this knowledge are indeed Illuminati. – Adam Weishaupt

Building technical systems involves a lot of hard work and specialized knowledge: languages and protocols, coding and debugging, testing and refactoring. – Jesse James Garrett

He will therefore have to use what knowledge he can achieve, not to shape the results as the craftsman shapes his handiwork, but rather to cultivate a growth by providing the appropriate environment, in the manner in which the gardener does this for his plants. – Friedrich August von Hayek

The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism. – Georg C. Lichtenberg

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

Knowledge fills a large brain it merely inflates a small one. – Sydney J. Harris

An humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning. – Thomas a Kempis

International relationships are preordained to be clumsy gestures based on imperfect knowledge. – Rebecca West

People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding. – Van Wyck Brooks

The ordinary American – as far as I can tell – knows so much less than he did fifty years ago and has such poor work habits compared with fifty years ago that the average multiplicand of knowledge/capabilities is a much smaller number than it was in 1961. – Ben Stein

Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another. – Thomas Hobbes

I believe patriotism comes from the heart. Patriotism is voluntary. It is a feeling of loyalty and allegiance that is the result of knowledge and belief. – Jesse Ventura