Knowledge Quotes
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What a man knows should find its expression in what he does; the value of superior knowledge is chiefly in that it leads to a performing manhood.
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What is not fully understood is not possessed.
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What novelty is worth the sweet monotony where everything is known, and loved because it is known?
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Whatever our intellectual calling, no kind of knowledge is antagonistic to it. - All varieties of knowledge blend with, harmonize, and enrich the one kind of knowledge to which we attach our reputation.
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When a king asked Euclid, whether he could not explain his art to him in a more compendious manner, he was answered, that there was no royal way to geometry. Other things may be seized by might, or purchased with money; but knowledge is to be gained only by study, and study to be prosecuted only in retirement.
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With the gain of knowledge, connect the habit of imparting it. This increases mental wealth by putting it in circulation; and it enhances the value of our knowledge to ourselves, not only in its depth, confirmation, and readiness for use, but in that acquaintance with human nature, that self-command, and that reaction of moral training upon ouselves, which are above all price.
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You don't need to know many things to succeed and get rich, if you know the few things that are important.
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You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.
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Your learning, like the lunar beam, affords light but not heat; it leaves you undevout, and frozen at heart, while speculation shines.
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Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.
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