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Quotations by Subject: Knowledge (74 quotes)

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Penicillin was indeed the product of accidental discovery, but the discovery was made, and the knowledge developed, because certain scientists had definite goals in mind. "Chance," Pastuer wrote, "favors only the prepared mind." The mind must be prepared not only by scientific training and technological know-how, but also by the awareness of social needs.: Saturday Review
To see a man fearless in dangers. untainted with lusts, happy in adversity, composed in a tumult, and laughing at all those things which are generally either coveted or feared, all men must acknowledge that this can be from nothing else but a beam of divinity that influences a mortal body.: Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
We find it hard to apply the knowledge of ourselves to our judgment of others. The fact that we are never of one kind, that we never love without reservations and never hate with all our being cannot prevent us from seeing others as wholly black or white.: Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)
Having supplied them with names, omnipotence, justice, knowledge, Providence, - what are they?: Author Unknown
Knowledge, like religion, must be "experienced" in order to be known.: Edwin P. Whipple
Every year, if not every day, we have to wager our salvation upon some prophecy based upon imperfect knowledge.: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935)
Accurate knowledge is the basis of correct opinions; the want of it makes the opinions of most people of little value.: Charles Simmons
Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.: Will Durant (1885 - 1981)
Knowledge always desires increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but which will afterward propagate it.: Johnson
Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them.: Lord Chesterfield (1694 - 1773)

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