Knowledge

(312 votes)   The long unmeasured pulse of time moves everything. There is nothing hidden that it cannot bring to light, nothing once known that may not become unknown.

Sophocles
BC 495-406, Greek Tragic Poet

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(268 votes)   Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven.

Henry David Thoreau
1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist

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(258 votes)   ''Knowledge is power.'' Rather, knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -- broad, deep knowledge -- is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man's progress is to feel the great heartthrobs of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life.

Helen Keller
1880-1968, American Blind/Deaf Author, Lecturer, Amorist

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(239 votes)   I find that a great part of the information I have, was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.

Franklin P. Adams
1881-1960, American Journalist, Humorist

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(236 votes)   Know thyself.

Socrates
BC 469-399, Greek Philosopher of Athens

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(233 votes)   The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.

Confucius
BC 551-479, Chinese Ethical Teacher, Philosopher

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(232 votes)   Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

Carl Jung
1875-1961, Swiss Psychiatrist

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(232 votes)   Many people think of knowledge as money, They would like knowledge, but do not want to face the perseverance and self-denial that goes into the acquisition of it.

John Morely

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(229 votes)   The conqueror and king in each one of us is the knower of truth. Let the knower awaken in us and drive the horses of the mind, emotions, and physical body on the pathway which that king has chosen.

George S. Arundale

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(228 votes)   Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

Lord Alfred Tennyson
1809-1892, British Poet

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(219 votes)   The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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(199 votes)   Men can acquire knowledge, but not wisdom. Some of the greatest fools ever known were learned men.

Spanish Proverbs
Sayings of Spanish Origin

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(196 votes)   He who knows others is clever; He who knows himself has discernment.

Lao-Tzu
BC 600-?, Chinese Philosopher, Founder of Taoism, Author of the ''Tao Te Ching''

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(196 votes)   Who knows most believes least.

Proverbs

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(176 votes)   Know they thyself, presume not God to scan. The proper study of mankind is man.

Lao-Tzu
BC 600-?, Chinese Philosopher, Founder of Taoism, Author of the ''Tao Te Ching''

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