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• The only source of knowledge is experience.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, God

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• Nature has given us the seeds of knowledge, not knowledge itself.

  Seneca the Younger

  Nature, Given, Seeds

  "Epistolæ Ad Lucilium", CXX in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 419-423), 1922.

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• The less people know, the more stubbornly they know it.

  Rajneesh

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Ignorance

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• Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.

  Will Durant

  Education, Eye, Soul

  Will Durant (2012). “Story of Philosophy”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

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• Sin, guilt, neurosis; they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.

  Henry Miller

  Tree, Guilt, Literature

  Henry Miller (1941). “The Wisdom of the Heart”, p.11, New Directions Publishing

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• Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Art, Children, Speaking Well

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• If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

  Derek Bok

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

  Attributed in Paul Dickson, The Official Rules (1978). An earlier occurrence, without attribution to any individual, was in Wash. Post, 6 Oct. 1975.

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• Knowledge is the best eraser in the world for disharmony, distrust, despair, and the endless physical deficiencies of man.

  Orlando Aloysius Battista

  Men, Despair, World

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• We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness.

  Tom Waits

  Happiness, Confused, Confusion

  Interview "All Songs Considered", NPR, May 20, 2008.

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• True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Friendship, Best Friend, Ignorance

  Henry David Thoreau (2001). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.182, Courier Corporation

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• Peace does not mean an absence of conflicts; differences will always be there. Peace means solving these differences through peaceful means; through dialogue, education, knowledge; and through humane ways.

  Dalai Lama

  Life, Education, Spiritual

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• True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Lying, Knowing, True Knowledge

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• Knowledge must be gained by ourselves. Mankind may supply us with facts; but the results, even if they agree with previous ones, must be the work of our own minds.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Wisdom, Science, Mind

  Benjamin Disraeli (1853). “The Young Duke ... By B. Disraeli. A New Edition”, p.267

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• Knowledge is power but only wisdom is liberty.

  Will Durant

  Wisdom, Understanding, Liberty

  Will Durant (1929). “The Mansions of Philosophy: A Survey of Human Life and Destiny”, Garden City, N.Y. : Garden City Publishing Company

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• Knowledge has a beginning but no end.

  Geeta Iyengar

  Ends

  Geeta S. Iyengar (1998). “Yoga: A Gem for Women”, p.72, Allied Publishers

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• The basic economic resource - the means of production -
  is no longer capital, nor natural resources, nor labor.
  It is and will be knowledge.

  Peter Drucker

  Mean, Learning, Economic

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• The key to life is to become skillful enough to be able to do rewarding things.

  Jim Rohn

  Life, Keys, Entrepreneur

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Dec 18, 2016

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• It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Life, Positive, Wisdom

  'The Poet at the Breakfast Table' (1872) ch. 10

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• Knowledge is limited.

  Albert Einstein

  Albert Einstein, George Bernard Shaw (2012). “Einstein on Cosmic Religion and Other Opinions and Aphorisms”, p.97, Courier Corporation

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• The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

  Laurence Sterne

  Motivational, Education, Business

  Laurence Sterne (1849). “The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman”, p.65

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• Imagination is more important than knowledge.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Positive, Leadership

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.32, St. Martin's Press

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• It has long been recognized that an essential element in protecting human rights was a widespread knowledge among the population of what their rights are and how they can be defended.

  Boutros Boutros-Ghali

  Rights, Long, Essentials

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• Knowledge management will never work
  until corporations realize it's not about
  how you capture knowledge but
  how you create and leverage it.

  Etienne Wenger

  Corporations, Management, Realizing

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• I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.

  Franklin P. Adams

  Inspirational, Writing, Carpe Diem

  Quoted in Reader's Digest, Oct. 1960

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• Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.188, Princeton University Press

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