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Knowledge

Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance. – Hippocrates

Knowledge is not eating, and we cannot expect to devour and possess what we mean. Knowledge is recognition of something absent it is a salutation, not an embrace. – George Santayana

There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge. – Michel de Montaigne

Zeal without knowledge is fire without light. – Thomas Fuller

Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge. – Isaac Bashevis Singer

Sin, guilt, neurosis they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge. – Henry Miller

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

In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance. – Henry Miller

If in preaching the gospel you substitute your knowledge of the way of salvation for confidence in the power of the gospel, you hinder people from getting to reality. – Oswald Chambers

And I pray thee, loving Jesus, that as Thou hast graciously given me to drink in with delight the words of Thy knowledge, so Thou wouldst mercifully grant me to attain one day to Thee, the fountain of all wisdom and to appear forever before Thy face. – Venerable Bede

It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment. – Carl Friedrich Gauss

Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge. – H. G. Wells

The medieval university looked backwards it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge. The modern university looks forward, and is a factory of new knowledge. – Thomas Huxley

I know that I have lived because I have felt, and, feeling giving me the knowledge of my existence, I know likewise that I shall exist no more when I shall have ceased to feel. – Giacomo Casanova

The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty. – James Madison

The seat of knowledge is in the head of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right. – William Hazlitt

Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge. – Arthur Rimbaud

The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others. – John Locke

The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it. – John Locke

Knowledge is recognition of something absent it is a salutation, not an embrace. – George Santayana