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Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them nor intuition without concepts can yield knowledge.

The beginning of self-knowledge: recognizing that your motives are the same as other people's.

Share your joy your wealth and your knowledge with others less fortunate. That is the surest means of winning divine grace.

A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Checking the results of a decision against its expectations shows executives what their strengths are where they need to improve and where they lack knowledge or information.

Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves or we know where we can find information upon it.

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.

Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.

Knowledge will give you power but character respect.

Bruce Lee

The hand is not so well adorned by ornaments as by charitable offerings, one does not become clean by smearing sandalwood paste upon the body as by taking a bath, one does not become so much satisfied by dinner as by having respect shown to him, and salvation is not attained by self-adornment as by cultivation of spiritual knowledge.

The first step in a person's salvation is knowledge of their sin.

His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew but rather to impress upon them that nothing not even... knowledge was foolproof.

The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge experience and ability.

Henry Ford

I think I have a duty as a recovering guy to help to make my knowledge of what I went through accessible.

A person might be an expert in any field of knowledge or a master of many material skills and accomplishments. But without inner cleanliness his brain is a desert waste.

The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.

Knowledge has to be improved challenged and increased constantly or it vanishes.

Knowledge without devotion to God produces hatred.

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

Carl Sagan

Do I need my number retired throughout the course of the league to acknowledge what I've done? No.

We can't have full knowledge all at once. We must start by believing, then afterwards we may be led on to master the evidence for ourselves.

Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that

He who is not shy in the acquisition of wealth grain and knowledge and in taking his meals will be happy

Chanakya

The two operations of our understanding intuition and deduction on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.

Knowledge comes but wisdom lingers.

There's no reason to change what you are but if you're not being you then you need to acknowledge that.

Zeal will do more than knowledge.

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.

There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God.

Everything united in her, good understanding, correct opinions, knowledge of the world and a warm heart

No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

For knowledge itself is power.

Francis Bacon

All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire but my heart is all my own.

It has been the acknowledged right of every Marxist scholar to read into Marx the particular meaning that he himself prefers and to treat all others with indignation.

It's very strange that most people don't care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations.

Doug Coupland

Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.

When you know a thing to hold that you know it and when you do not know a thing to allow that you do not know it: this is knowledge

Scientific apparatus offers a window to knowledge but as they grow more elaborate scientists spend ever more time washing the windows.

Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.

Peter Drucker

questions about our silver position that we had received from regulatory authorities led us to believe that they wished us to publicly acknowledge this investment.

Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.

I'm a student of world religion so to me it's hugely important to have knowledge and to understand what people are doing.

Will Smith

All our knowledge begins with the senses proceeds then to the understanding and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little and not those who know much who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.

Skill Knowledge must develop by balance into skill or else it degenerates into KILL.

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

Practice is as important for confirming one in wisdom as reading is important for confirming one in knowledge.

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

Nature in darkness groans and men are bound to sullen contemplation in the night: restless they turn on beds of sorrow, in their inmost brain feeling the crushing wheels they rise they write the bitter words of stern philosophy and knead the bread of knowledge with tears and groans.

The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.

Mistakes are after all the foundations of truth and if a man does not know what a thing is it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.

The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.

The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.

Knowledge is like money: to be of value it must circulate and in circulating it can increase in quantity and hopefully in value.

Louis L'Amour

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

For our vanity is such that we hold our own characters immutable and we are slow to acknowledge that they have changed even for the better.

Knowledge itself is power

Francis Bacon

Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power, but character health knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.

The most considerable difference I note among men is not in their readiness to fall into error but in their readiness to acknowledge these inevitable lapses.

The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.

I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent than in the extent of my power and possessions.

Plutarch

Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.

Blaise Pascal

Knowledge is like money: the more he gets the more he craves.

Josh Billings

Knowledge and human power are synonymous

Francis Bacon

Now the reason the enlightened prince and the wise general conquer the enemy whenever they move and their achievements surpass those of ordinary men is foreknowledge.

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

James Madison

Those who have knowledge don't predict. Those who predict don't have knowledge.

The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.

Mark Twain

Old age is the fourth stage. By the time one reaches this stage of his journey he must have discovered that the joys available in this world are trivial and fleeting. He must be equipped with the higher knowledge of spiritual joy available through delving into the inner spring of Bliss. Through his experiences his heart must have softened and be filled with compassion. He has to be engrossed in promoting the progress of all beings without distinction. And he must be eager to share with others the knowledge he has accumulated and the benefit of his experiences.

Sai Baba

Some men are just as firmly convinced of what they think, as others of what they know.

And what Socrates is the food of the soul? Surely I said knowledge is the food of the soul.

One can't doubt that the American objective in Iraq has failed - different plans have to be made. And the kernel here is the acknowledgement of defeat.

It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so knowledge remains better than ignorance.

Knowledge that is not put into practice is like food that is not digested.

Most High glorious God enlighten the darkness of my heart and give me true faith, certain hope and perfect charity, sense and knowledge, Lord, that I might carry out Your holy and true command.

Francis of Assisi

It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.

A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs and knowledge, slowly accumulated in the course of centuries; elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The learning and knowledge that we have is at the most but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

Enthusiastic Admiration is the first Principle of Knowledge and its last.

Sexuality is one of the ways that we become enlightened actually because it leads us to self-knowledge.

We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. The state in which we are is sinful irrespective of guilt.

Universities exist to transmit knowledge and understanding of ideas and values to students not to provide entertainment for spectators or employment for athletes.

Knowledge is proud that it knows so much, wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

Knowledge is true opinion.

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.

Even knowledge has to be in the fashion and where it is not it is wise to affect ignorance.

The will to do springs from the knowledge that we can do.

Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The knowledge of the causal power of thought is the basis of all their (Hebrew) prophecies as it is the basis of all real wisdom and power.

James Allen

Even as the unborn babe is in the womb of his mother, these five are fixed as his life destiny: his life span, his activities, his acquisition of wealth and knowledge, and his time of death.

I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led and bearding every authority which stood in their way.

Knowledge is power.

The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place time and ability.

If thou would'st have that stream of hard-earn'd knowledge of Wisdom heaven-born remain sweet running waters thou should'st not leave it to become a stagnant pond.

We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

Michel de Montaigne

Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength not a lack of knowledge but rather a lack of will.

Ardor n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.

Knowledge is two-fold and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true but in the negation of that which is false.

All men are born with a nose and ten fingers but no one was born with a knowledge of God.

I would rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils.

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

We must however acknowledge as it seems to me that man with all his noble qualities... still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.

I have taken all knowledge to be my province

Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed, to kindness to knowledge we make promise only, pain we obey.

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

We did it Disneyland in the knowledge that most of the people I talked to thought it would be a financial disaster - closed and forgotten within the first year.

Walt Disney

Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.

The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's smile at someone and receive a smile in return are to me continual spiritual exercises.

Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

He who gives up shyness in monetary dealings in acquiring knowledge in eating and in business becomes happy.

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.

The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.

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.

Thought is the wind knowledge the sail and mankind the vessel.

The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts.

Knowledge which is divorced from justice may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Tell me why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognise our own strengths our achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why?

Where knowledge ends religion begins.

It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.

The true method of knowledge is experiment.

You did then what you knew how to do, and when you knew better you did better.

No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

Information is not knowledge.

Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.

Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.

Thomas Huxley

Good nature is worth more than knowledge more than money more than honor to the persons who possess it.

Henry Ward Beecher

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

Service is the highest spiritual discipline. Prayer and meditation or knowledge of scripture and Vedanta (holy scriptures of India) cannot help you reach the goal as quickly as service can. Service has a double effect it extinguishes the ego and gives bliss.

That man who is without religion and mercy should be rejected. A guru without spiritual knowledge should be rejected. The wife with an offensive face should be given up and so should relatives who are without affection.

He that hath knowledge spareth his words.

The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that and live that way you are really a wise man.

Euripides

The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism.

Albert Camus

The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge.

We know accurately only when we know little with knowledge doubt increases.

Self-reverence self-knowledge self-control, these three alone lead one to sovereign power.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.

We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about.

Knowledge the clue to life can give: Then wherefore hesitate to live

Marcus Aurelius

There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.

Benjamin Disraeli

The amount of meetings I've been in - people would be shocked. But that's how you gain experience how you can gain knowledge being in meetings and participating. You learn and grow.

Tiger Woods

In friendship as well as love ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Knowledge speaks but wisdom listens.

Anyone who thinks that the vice-president can take a position independent of the president of his administration, simply has no knowledge of politics or government. You are his choice in a political marriage and he expects your absolute loyalty.

One whose knowledge is confined to books, and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge, nor wealth, when the need for them arises.

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

There is no disease (so destructive) as lust, no enemy like infatuation, no fire like wrath, and no happiness like spiritual knowledge.

Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.

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.

Friedrich Schiller

There's no question in my mind the number one problem of mankind is the spread of nuclear knowledge ... It should be at the top of the list for our government.

A belief in hell, and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton, have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Aldous Huxley

You feel sometimes when you hear analysts and knowledgeable people talking about Iran that they fear so much about the survival of the regime because deep down it's not a legitimate regime it doesn't represent the will of the people it's kind of morphed into kind of a military theocracy.

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