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A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.
Walter Scott
Knowledge
History
Mechanic
Lawyer
Possesses
Some
Architect
He
Mere
Mason
Venture
Call
Himself
Without
May
Literature
Working
Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.
Zhuangzi
Knowledge
Honor
Men
Sphere
Lies
Beyond
Within
How
Dependent
Realize
I believe that when an elder dies, a library is burned: vast sums of wisdom and knowledge are lost. Throughout the world libraries are ablaze with scant attention.
Elizabeth Kapu'uwailani Lindsey
Wisdom
Knowledge
Library
World
Lost
Believe
I Believe
I Believe That
Sums
Libraries
Scant
Vast
Throughout
Attention
Dies
Burned
Elder
I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance.
Ruben Blades
Best
Knowledge
Ignorance
Think
Society
Risk
Becoming
Died
Informed
Ever
The mark of higher education isn't the knowledge you accumulate in your head. It's the skills you gain about how to learn.
Adam Grant
Education
Knowledge
You
Higher Education
Mark
About
Higher
Head
Learn
How
Accumulate
Gain
Skills
Your
Do not share the knowledge with which you have been blessed with everyone in general, as you do with some people in particular; and know that there are some men in whom Allah, may He be glorified, has placed hidden secrets, which they are forbidden to reveal.
Ali ibn Abi Talib
Knowledge
You
People
Allah
Men
Some People
Blessed
Everyone
Secrets
Hidden
Some
Some Men
General
Share
He
Particular
Know
Forbidden
Glorified
Reveal
Been
May
Which
Placed
Whom
Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.
Alvin Toffler
Knowledge
Power
Most
Democratic
Source
The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
Anais Nin
Knowledge
Sense
Possession
More
Mystery
Does
Always
Wonder
A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Knowledge
Man
Somewhere
Difficult
Heritage
Distance
Logic
Slowly
Civilization
Lead
Open
Since
Course
His
Up
Times
Accumulate
Paths
Justify
Justifying
Centuries
Customs
Themselves
Beliefs
Elements
Inner
The pursuit of natural knowledge, the investigation of the world - mental and material - in which we live, is not a dull and spiritless affair: rather is it a voyage of adventure of the human mind, a holiday for reckless and imaginative souls.
Archibald Hill
Knowledge
Natural
World
Mind
Live
Reckless
Mental
Rather
Pursuit
Investigation
Adventure
Voyage
Souls
Material
Affair
Dull
Human
Which
Holiday
Human Mind
Imaginative
A man of knowledge chooses a path with a heart and follows it and then he looks and rejoices and laughs and then he sees and knows.
Carlos Castaneda
Knowledge
Man
Heart
Path
Laughs
Follows
Sees
He
Looks
Knows
Then
Chooses
Rejoices
Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; but knowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, unlimited in space and indefinite in duration.
DeWitt Clinton
Knowledge
Wealth
Space
Power
Frame
Unlimited
Pleasure
Indefinite
Vanity
Shadow
Perennial
Ecstatic
Duration
Pageant
Enjoyment
It is one of my sources of happiness never to desire a knowledge of other people's business.
Dolley Madison
Happiness
Knowledge
Business
People
Other
Never
Sources
Desire
Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Nature
Knowledge
Mind
Insects
Honey
Thither
Our
Way
Lies
Winged
Beehive
Perpetually
Being
Treasure
Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.
Hermann Hesse
Wisdom
Knowledge
Communicate
Live
Find
Through
Wonders
Cannot
Fortified
Teach
We don't know all the answers. If we knew all the answers we'd be bored, wouldn't we? We keep looking, searching, trying to get more knowledge.
Jack LaLanne
Knowledge
Looking
Bored
More
Knew
Know
Answers
Get
Trying
Searching
Keep
Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.
Jacob Bronowski
Knowledge
Edge
Uncertainty
Adventure
Unending
Cultures have long heard wisdom in non-human voices: Apollo, god of music, medicine and knowledge, came to Delphi in the form of a dolphin. But dolphins, which fill the oceans with blipping and chirping, and whales, which mew and caw in ultramarine jazz - a true rhapsody in blue - are hunted to the edge of silence.
Jay Griffiths
Wisdom
Music
God
Silence
Knowledge
Long
Edge
Jazz
Medicine
Hunted
Voices
True
Oceans
Came
Heard
Dolphin
Dolphins
Cultures
Whales
Blue
Form
Which
Apollo
Fill
Being adequately informed is a democratic duty, just as the vote is a democratic right. A misinformed electorate, voting without knowledge, is not a true democracy.
Jay Griffiths
Democracy
Knowledge
Vote
Voting
Duty
Adequately
True
Democratic
Without
Just
Being
Informed
Electorate
Right
We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.
John Archibald Wheeler
Knowledge
Ignorance
Live
Our
Island
Does
Surrounded
Shore
Sea
Grows
I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.
Khalil Gibran
Art
Silence
Knowledge
Ignorance
Affection
Imagination
Those
Chattering
Hands
Who
Wash
Imagine
The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.
Khalil Gibran
God
Knowledge
You
Learning
Grief
Consider
Insignificant
He
Learn
Gloom
Bliss
Came
Person
Might
Ignorant
Who
The good life consists in deriving happiness by using your signature strengths every day in the main realms of living. The meaningful life adds one more component: using these same strengths to forward knowledge, power or goodness.
Martin Seligman
Happiness
Life
Good
Day
Knowledge
Every Day
Power
Goodness
Living
Every
Good Life
Adds
Consists
Signature
Component
More
Main
Same
Meaningful
Your
Forward
Using
Strengths
Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
Novalis
Faith
Knowledge
Half
Other
One Half
Only
And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.
Plato
Food
Knowledge
Soul
Surely
Said
Socrates
Knowledge is true opinion.
Plato
Knowledge
True
Opinion
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