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- Faith, noun. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel
- Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
- Knowledge is expensive.
- Hanna Gray, current president of the University of Chicago
- Self-reverence, self knowledge, self-control. These three alone lead life to sovereign power.
- Lord Tennyson
- A true knowledge of ourselves is knowledge of our power.
- Mark Rutherford
- If you want to be truly successful invest in yourself to get the knowledge you need to find your unique factor. When you find it and focus on it and persevere your success will blossom.
- Sidney Madwed
- Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.
- George Gurdjieff
- A man can know nothing of mankind without knowing something of himself. Self-knowledge is the property of that man whose passions have their full play, but who ponders over their results.
- Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
- Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.
- Orison Swett Marden (1850 - 1924)
- Let this be understood, then, at starting; that the patient conquest of difficulties which rise in the regular and legitimate channels of business and enterprise is not only essential in securing the success which you seek but it is essential to that preparation of your mind, requisite for the enjoyment of your successes, and for retaining them when gained. So, day by day, and week by week; so month after month, and year after year, work on, and in that progress gain in strength and symmetry, and nerve and knowledge, that when success, patiently and bravely worked for, shall come, it may find you prepared to receive it and keep it.
- Josiah Gilbert Holland
- Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.
- Samuel Smiles
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