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- The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.
- Vince Lombardi (1913 - 1970)
- Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
- We know next to nothing about virtually everything. It is not necessary to know the origin of the universe; it is necessary to want to know. Civilization depends not on any particular knowledge, but on the disposition to crave knowledge.
- George F. Will (1941 - )
- Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809 - 1892)
- Happy the man who, like Ulysses, has made a fine voyage, or has won the Golden Fleece, and then returns, experienced and knowledgeable, to spend the rest of his life among his family!
- Joachim Du Bellay, Sonnet de Regrets
- Every extension of knowledge arises from making the conscious the unconscious.
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
- If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
- Henry Ford (1863 - 1947)
- The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.
- Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)
- Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
- John Locke (1632 - 1704)
- Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.
- August Hare
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