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Knowledge Quotes

"When we say we know what we are talking about, we mean that we know what we think about something, rather than knowing the facts"
Ian McEwan
"Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life."
Immanuel Kant
"Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play."
Immanuel Kant
"The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty."
James Madison
"Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives."
James Madison
"Philosophy is common sense with big words."
James Madison
"Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that."
John Stuart Mill
"I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library"
Jorge Luis Borges
"Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family"
Kofi Annan
"Nothing in life is to be feared; it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less."
Marie Curie
"We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time"
T. S. Eliot
"You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture Just get people to stop reading them"
Ray Bradbury
"The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries"
Rene Descartes
"I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world."
Richard Dawkins
"It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for acting"
Simone de Beauvoir
"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge"
Charles Darwin
"Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all."
Abraham Lincoln
"Liberating education consists in acts of cognition not transferals of information"
Paulo Freire
"Beware the man of a single book."
Thomas Aquinas