Plato Quotes, Knowledge Quotes, May Quotes

In things which we know, everyone will trust us ... and we may do as we please, and no one will like to interfere with us; and we are free, and masters of others; and these things will be really ours, for we shall turn them to our good.

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A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.

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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Knowledge Quotes , Men Quotes

It is an anomaly that information, the one thing most necessary to our survival as choosers of our own way, should be a commodity subject to the same merchandising rules as chewing gum.

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Tags : A. J. Liebling Quotes , Knowledge Quotes , Survival Quotes

That so few understand me is why I am treasured.

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Tags : Laozi Quotes , Knowledge Quotes , Taoism Quotes

To make knowledge valuable, you must have the cheerfulness of wisdom.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Wisdom Quotes , Knowledge Quotes

I long to create something that can't be used to keep us passive: I want to write a script about plumbing, how every pipe is joined to every other.

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Tags : Adrienne Rich Quotes , Knowledge Quotes , Writing Quotes

The sage is not ill, because he sees illness as illness.

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Tags : Laozi Quotes , Knowledge Quotes , Taoism Quotes

Correct becomes defect. Good becomes ominous. People's delusions have certainly lasted long.

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Tags : Laozi Quotes , Knowledge Quotes , Long Quotes

The trouble with the world is not that people know too little; it's that they know so many things that just aren't so.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Knowledge Quotes , People Quotes

The partitions of knowledge are not like several lines that meet in one angle, and so touch not in a point; but are like branches of a tree, that meet in a stem, which hath a dimension and quantity of entireness and continuance, before it come to discontinue and break itself into arms and boughs.

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Tags : Francis Bacon Quotes , Knowledge Quotes , Science Quotes

Wisdom sets bounds even to knowledge.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Wisdom Quotes , Knowledge Quotes

It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.

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Tags : Voltaire Quotes , Ignorance Quotes , Knowledge Quotes

I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.

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Tags : Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes , Education Quotes , Knowledge Quotes

What you know, you know, what you don't know, you don't know. This is true wisdom.

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Tags : Confucius Quotes , Knowledge Quotes

Go to you bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Heart Quotes , Knowledge Quotes

Knowledge comes Of learning well retain'd, unfruitful else.

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Tags : Dante Alighieri Quotes , Knowledge Quotes

Knowledge without devotion will be like a misfire.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Knowledge Quotes

Knowledge of the tallest scientist or the greatest spiritualist is like a particle of dust.

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Where there is the tree of knowledge, there is always Paradise: so say the most ancient and most modern serpents.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Knowledge Quotes , Tree Quotes

Metaphysical world.- It is true, there could be a metaphysical world; the absolute possibility of it is hardly to be disputed. We behold all things through the human head and cannot cut off this head; while the question nonetheless remains what of the world would still be there if one had cut it off.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Truth Quotes , Knowledge Quotes