“Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give lustre, and many more people see than weigh.”
— Herodotus
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Knowledge is the consequence of time, and
“Knowledge is the consequence of time, and multitude of days are fittest to teach wisdom.”
— Jeremy Collier
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True friendship can afford True knowledge. It
“True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.”
— Henry David Thoreau
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Knowledge is a polite word for dead
“Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.”
— e. e. cummings
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If you want to know the taste
“If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.”
— Mao Zedong
Author: Mao Zedong
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Music is the one incorporeal entrance into
“Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.”
— Ludwig van Beethoven
Author: Ludwig van Beethoven
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I listen to them freely and with
“I listen to them freely and with all the respect merited by their intelligence, their character, their knowledge, reserving always my incontestable right of criticism and censure.”
— Mikhail Bakunin
Author: Mikhail Bakunin
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The knowledge of languages was very useful.
“The knowledge of languages was very useful. I have a university degree in foreign languages and literature.”
— Emma Bonino
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That writer does the most who gives
“That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.”
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be
“Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.”
— Plato
Author: Plato
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At each increase of knowledge, as well
“At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes abridged.”
— Charles Babbage
Author: Charles Babbage
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