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Knowledge Quotes

"The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled."
Plutarch
"Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissues"
Edith Wharton
"What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes."
Samuel Beckett
"I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone."
Rainer Maria Rilke
"While we teach, we learn "
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"An expert is a person who avoids the small errors while sweeping on to the grand fallacy"
Steven Weinberg
"It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance"
Thomas Sowell
"Today a reader, tomorrow a leader"
Margaret Fuller
"If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it"
Margaret Fuller
"Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten"
B. F. Skinner
"When I examine myself and my methods of thought I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge."
Arthur Rubinstein
"We don’t stop going to school when we graduate"
Carol Burnett
"The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge."
Bertrand Russell
"Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination."
Bertrand Russell
"The edge there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over"
Hunter S. Thompson
"To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe."
Marilyn vos Savant
"So, please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install a lovely bookshelf on the wall."
Roald Dahl
"Dare to know"
Immanuel Kant
"All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason There is nothing higher than reason"
Immanuel Kant
"When you learn, teach, when you get, give"
Maya Angelou