“A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance.”
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“The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.”
“Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.”
“Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.”
“Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.”
“The first step in a person's salvation is knowledge of their sin.”
“The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts.”
“The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge.”
“The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.”
“The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.”
“The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.”
“Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.”
“Knowledge and human power are synonymous.”
“We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.”
“There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.”
“Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.”
“How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in the truth.”
“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.”
“Knowledge, the object of knowledge and the knower are the three factors which motivate action the senses, the work and the doer comprise the threefold basis of action.”
“Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing.”
“International relationships are preordained to be clumsy gestures based on imperfect knowledge.”
“You should not ask questions without knowledge.”
“Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge.”
“Scientia is knowledge. It is only in the popular mind that it is equated with facts.”