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Quotations by Subject: Knowledge (74 quotes)

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Knowledge is a comfortable and necessary retreat and shelter for us in advanced age, and if we do not plant it while young, it will give us no shade when we grow old.: Lord Chesterfield (1694 - 1773)
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It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance; for it requires knowledge to perceive it and therefore he that can perceive it hath it not.: Jeremy Taylor (1613 - 1667)
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It is knowledge that influences and equalizes the social condition of man; that gives to all, however different their political position, passions which are in common, and enjoyments which are universal.: Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
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The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in the closet.: Lord Chesterfield (1694 - 1773)
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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 (1804 - 1881)
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Knowledge is essential to conquest; only according to our ignorance are we helpless. Thought creates character. Character can dominate conditions. Will creates circumstances and environment.: Anne Besant (1847 - 1933)
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Modern Man is the victim of the very instruments he values most. Every gain in power, every mastery of natural forces, every scientific addition to knowledge, has proved potentially dangerous, because it has not been accompanied by equal gains in self-understanding and self-discipline.: Lewis Mumford (1895 - 1990)
The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief.: Sigmund Freud (1856 - 1939), The Future of an Illusion (1927)
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)
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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Pride and Prejudice, first line

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