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Quotations by Subject: Knowledge (74 quotes)

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I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.: Igor Stravinsky (1882 - 1971)
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.: Thomas H. Huxley (1825 - 1895)
In your thirst for knowledge, be sure not to drown in all the information.: Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community.: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), On Education
There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge. . . observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination.: Denis Diderot (1713 - 1784)
The only use of a knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present. The present contains all that there is. It is holy ground; for it is the past, and it is the future.: Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947)
To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of things eternal; to knowledge, the rational apprehension of things temporal.: Saint Augustine (354 AD - 430 AD)
There is a way in which the collective knowledge of mankind expresses itself, for the finite individual, through mere daily living... a way in which life itself is sheer knowing.: Laurens Van der Post, Venture to the Interior (1951)
Knowledge without know-how is sterile. We use the word "academic" in a pejorative sense to identify this limitation.: Myron Tribus
It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill.: Wilbur Wright (1867 - 1912)

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