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Quote 3638
The sharp eye notes specific points and differences—it seizes upon the individuality of the thing.by: John BurroughsShowing Quotes on knowledge
Quote 3599
To know all about anything is to know how to deal with it under all circumstances.Showing Quotes on knowledge
Quote 3584
Although both love and knowledge are necessary, love is in a sense more fundamental.Showing Quotes on knowledge
Quote 3583
Neither love without knowledge, nor knowledge without love can produce a good life.Showing Quotes on knowledge
Quote 3582
Knowledge and love are both indefinitely extensible; therefore, however good a life may be, a better life can be imagined.Showing Quotes on knowledge
Quote 3513
We may believe what goes beyond our experience, only when it is inferred from that experience by the assumption that what we do not know is like what we know.Showing Quotes on knowledge
Quote 3440
The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people that can write know anything.by: Walter BagehotShowing Quotes on knowledge
Quote 3438
So few people who can write know anything.by: Walter BagehotShowing Quotes on knowledge
Quote 3435
The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.by: Daniel DefoeShowing Quotes on knowledge
Quote 3430
It is never too late to be wise.by: Daniel DefoeShowing Quotes on knowledge
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Quote 3427
Being the third son of the family and not bred to any trade, my head began to be filled very early with rambling thoughts.by: Daniel DefoeShowing Quotes on knowledge
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Quote 3415
This truth, philosophy, though eagle-eyed In nature's tendencies, oft overlooks; And, having found his own mind, in the rest disclaims it.by: William CowperShowing Quotes on knowledge
Quote 3403
Man is a growth by law, and not a creation by artifice, and cause and effect is as absolute and undeviating in the hidden realm of thought as in the world of visible and material things.by: James AllenShowing Quotes on knowledge
Quote 3401
As the plant springs from, and could not be without, the seed, so every act of a man springs from the hidden seeds of thought, and could not have appeared without them.by: James AllenShowing Quotes on knowledge
Quote 3400
A man is literally what he thinks, his character being the complete sum of all his thoughts.by: James AllenShowing Quotes on knowledge
Quote 3399
I shall only add a promise to peruse your book dispassionately, and with a conviction that I shall find in it much to admire.by: Galileo GalileiShowing Quotes on knowledge
Quote 3398
This sort of men fancied that philosophy was to be studied like the Aeneid or Odyssey, and that the true reading of nature was to be detected by the collation of texts.by: Galileo GalileiShowing Quotes on knowledge
Quote 3397
The first degree contains only notions so clear of themselves that they can be acquired without meditation.by: René DescartesShowing Quotes on knowledge
Quote 3396
I shall be very glad to make plain in this discourse the paths I have followed, and to picture my life so that all may judge of it, and by the setting forth of their opinions may furnish me with yet other means of improvement.by: René DescartesShowing Quotes on knowledge
Quote 3395
My mind is no better than another's, but I have been lucky enough to chance on certain ways, which have led me to a certain method by means of which it seems to me that I may by degrees augment my knowledge to the modest measure of my intellect and my length of days.by: René DescartesShowing Quotes on knowledge
Quote 3393
It does not suffice that the understanding be good - it must be well applied.by: René DescartesShowing Quotes on knowledge
Quote 3392
The reading, not of all books, but especially of such as have been written by persons capable of conveying proper instruction, for it is a species of conversation we hold with their authors.by: René DescartesShowing Quotes on knowledge
Quote 3391
I think, therefore I am.by: René DescartesShowing Quotes on knowledge
Quote 3389
Good sense is, of all things among men, the most equally distributed.by: René DescartesShowing Quotes on knowledge
Quote 3388
I have collected many arguments for the purpose of refuting the latter; but I do not venture to bring them to the light of publicity, for fear of sharing the fate of our master, Copernicus, who, although he has earned immortal fame with some, yet with very many has become an object of ridicule and scorn.by: Galileo GalileiShowing Quotes on knowledge
Quote 3387
I count myself happy, in the search after truth, to have so great an ally as yourself, and one who is so great a friend of the truth itself.by: Galileo GalileiShowing Quotes on knowledge
Quote 3385
Philosophy is written in that great book which ever lies before our eyes, I mean the universe, but we cannot understand it if we do not first learn the language and grasp the symbols in which it is written.by: Galileo GalileiShowing Quotes on knowledge
Quote 3383
What God hath made, into that let man inquire.by: MacDonaldShowing Quotes on knowledge
Quote 3379
This story is really nothing at all, and the scratch is nothing too, but from one thing and another you'll perhaps understand what I mean, namely that of late everything had a je ne sais quoi that made one feel like scribbling it down on paper.Showing Quotes on knowledge
Quote 3378
Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but getting it onto paper is something that unfortunately doesn't go as readily as looking.Showing Quotes on knowledge
Quote 3375
Civilization should be something added to this, not substituted for it,Showing Quotes on knowledge
Quote 3373
The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.Showing Quotes on knowledge
Quote 3369
For repose is not the end of education; its end is a noble unrest, an ever renewed awaking from the dead, a ceaseless questioning of the past for the interpretation of the future, an urging on of the motions of life, which had better far be accelerated into fever, than retarded into lethargy.by: MacDonaldShowing Quotes on knowledge
Quote 3365
Nowhere in the world do they play chess so skilfully as in Paris, and nowhere in Paris as they do at this coffee-house.by: Denis DiderotShowing Quotes on knowledge
Quote 3361
I keep up talk with myself about politics, love, taste, or philosophy;by: Denis DiderotShowing Quotes on knowledge
Quote 3359
To get drunk with ink is more worth while than to get drunk with brandy.by: Gustave FlaubertShowing Quotes on knowledge
Quote 3351
The thinker serves it by his intellect, and as a light upon its path.Showing Quotes on knowledge
Quote 3343
Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow; He who would search for pearls must dive below.by: John DrydenShowing Quotes on knowledge
Quote 3341
Great wits are sure to madness near allied.by: John DrydenShowing Quotes on knowledge
Quote 3334
Many were the men whose towns he saw and whose mind he learnt.by: HomerShowing Quotes on knowledge
Quote 3333
Tell me, Muse, of that man, so ready at need, who wandered far and wide.by: HomerShowing Quotes on knowledge
Quote 3331
A good book ought to be bound in edible covers.Showing Quotes on knowledge
Quote 3330
Books are not merely books, they are the life blood of master spirits.Showing Quotes on knowledge
Quote 3329
You sell him a whole new life.Showing Quotes on knowledge
Quote 3328
When you sell a man a book you do not sell him just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue.Showing Quotes on knowledge
Quote 3327
There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.Showing Quotes on knowledge
Quote 3308
A life without investigation is not worth living.by: SocratesShowing Quotes on knowledge
Quote 3289
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.by: George EliotShowing Quotes on knowledge
Quote 3280
Language gradually varies, and with it fade away the writings of authors who have flourished their allotted time.Showing Quotes on knowledge
Quote 3266
The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts.Showing Quotes on knowledge
Quote 3261
Man is a Tool-using Animal.by: Thomas CarlyleShowing Quotes on knowledge
Quote 3247
He that has never known adversity is but half acquainted with others, or with himself.Showing Quotes on knowledge
Quote 3238
Learning is the knowledge of that which is not generally known to others.by: William HazlittShowing Quotes on knowledge
Quote 3235
Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.by: Adam SmithShowing Quotes on knowledge
Quote 3210
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.by: Samuel JohnsonShowing Quotes on knowledge
Quote 3207
Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment the treasurer, of a wise man.by: William PennShowing Quotes on knowledge
Quote 3206
Inquiry is human, blind obedience brutal.by: William PennShowing Quotes on knowledge
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
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
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
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
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
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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