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“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
― Elbert Hubbard
tags: friend, friendship, knowledge, love
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“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
― Socrates
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“The Seven Social Sins are:
Wealth without work.
Pleasure without conscience.
Knowledge without character.
Commerce without morality.
Science without humanity.
Worship without sacrifice.
Politics without principle.
From a sermon given by Frederick Lewis Donaldson in Westminster Abbey, London, on March 20, 1925.”
― Frederick Lewis Donaldson
tags: character, commerce, conscience, happiness, humanity, knowledge, misattributed-to-gandhi, money, morality, pleasure, politics, principle, sacrifice, science, sin, sins, wealth, work, worship
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“Hold fast to dreams,
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird,
That cannot fly.”
― Langston Hughes
tags: dreams, hope, inspiration, knowledge, wisdom
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“Any fool can know. The point is to understand.”
― Albert Einstein
tags: knowledge, learning, understanding, wisdom
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“I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know.”
― Mark Twain
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“I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.”
― Maya Angelou
tags: attributed, attributed-no-source, education, intelligence, knowledge, unsourced
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“The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
tags: enemies, friends, friendship, hatred, intelligence, knowledge, love, wisdom
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“No thief, however skillful, can rob one of knowledge, and that is why knowledge is the best and safest treasure to acquire.”
― L. Frank Baum, The Lost Princess of Oz
tags: knowledge, thievery, treasure
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“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.”
― John Locke
tags: knowledge, reading, thinking
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“I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think”
― Socrates
tags: knowledge, philosophy
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“Great minds are always feared by lesser minds.”
― Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol
tags: knowledge
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“Confidence is ignorance. If you're feeling cocky, it's because there's something you don't know.”
― Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl
tags: confidence, humor, ignorance, knowledge
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“The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.”
― Daniel J. Boorstin
tags: ignorance, knowledge, misattributed-stephen-hawking
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“Knowing too much of your future is never a good thing.”
― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief
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“For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson
tags: compassion, inspiration, inspirational, knowledge, learning, philosophy, science, values
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“Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in.”
― Alan Alda
tags: assumptions, close-mindedness, intelligence, isaac-asimov, knowledge, open-mind, open-mindedness, open-minds, opinions, receptivity, science, science-of-mind
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“It is the absence of facts that frightens people: the gap you open, into which they pour their fears, fantasies, desires.”
― Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall
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“Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else ... Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.”
― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
tags: communication, foolishness, knowledge, sharing, teaching, wisdom
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“Write what you know. That should leave you with a lot of free time.”
― Howard Nemerov
tags: humor, knowledge, literature, writing
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“The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.”
― Anais Nin
tags: knowledge, mystery, sense-of-wonder, spirituality
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“All knowledge hurts.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones
tags: city-of-bones, disillusionment, experience, knowledge, wisdom
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“I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.”
― Hermann Hesse, Demian. Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend
tags: inspiration, instinct, knowledge, search, seekers, self-awareness, self-discovery, understanding
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“Last night I lost the world, and gained the universe.”
― C. JoyBell C.
tags: enlightenment, forgiveness, inspirational-quotes, knowledge, letting-go
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“Doctor Who: You want weapons? We're in a library. Books are the best weapon in the world. This room's the greatest arsenal we could have. Arm yourself!
(from Tooth and Claw in Season 2)”
― Russell T. Davies
tags: books, doctor-who, knowledge, library, reading, weapons
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“For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.”
― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
tags: cosmology, delusion, knowledge, religion, science, truth, understanding
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“If you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to happen next—if you knew in advance the consequences of your own actions—you'd be doomed. You'd be ruined as God. You'd be a stone. You'd never eat or drink or laugh or get out of bed in the morning. You'd never love anyone, ever again. You'd never dare to.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin
tags: foresight, knowledge, women
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“I mean, you could claim that anything's real if the only basis for believing in it is that nobody's proved it doesn't exist!”
― J.K. Rowling
tags: common-sense, hermione-granger, knowledge, logic, reason, skepticism
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“Knowledge is power. Power to do evil...or power to do good. Power itself is not evil. So knowledge itself is not evil.”
― Veronica Roth, Allegiant
tags: evil, good, knowledge, power
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“People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care”
― Theodore Roosevelt