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Quotations by Subject: Knowledge (74 quotes)

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The great end of life is not knowledge, but action.: Thomas Fuller (1608 - 1661)
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Worrying is the most natural and spontaneous of all human functions. It is time to acknowledge this, perhaps even to learn to do it better.: Lewis Thomas (1913 - 1993)
We set sail on this new sea because there is knowledge to be gained.: John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)
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In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others of which we could have no idea before, so that we cannot solve one doubt without creating several new ones.: Joseph Priestley
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He reflected deeply, until this feeling completely overwhelmed him and he reached a point where he recognized causes; for to recognize causes, it seemed to him, is to think, and through thought along feelings become knowledge and are not lost, but become real and being to mature.: Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962), Siddhartha (1951), Chapter: Awakening
Maybe it would be better to acknowledge, like the Greeks, that a lot of behavior we call addiction is really a love of pleasure that carries the force of habit. We become addicted mostly because of the central issue in all self-control problems, which is the disproportionate value we place on short-term rewards.: Daniel Akst, We Have Met the Enemy: Self-Control in an Age of Excess, 2011
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If a man empties his purse into his head no one can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
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Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.: Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931), The Voice of the Master
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Peace is an unstable equilibrium, which can be preserved only by acknowledged supremacy or equal power.: Will Durant and Arial Durant, The Lessons of History, Chapter 11, 1968
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If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is no barking dog to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.: Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. (1900 - 1965)
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