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3 December 2020 Albert Einstein

Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

3 December 2020 Joseph Addison

The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.

3 December 2020 John Adams

Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.

3 December 2020 Carlos Castaneda

A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.

3 December 2020 George Santayana

Knowledge is recognition of something absent it is a salutation, not an embrace.

3 December 2020 Jim Ryun

To my knowledge, the Department of Homeland Security has focused on detection devices that are large, expensive, use a large amount of energy, and cannot easily be placed in or on a shipping container.

3 December 2020 Don Rickles

To my knowledge, I was the first guy really to do what I do. And then later on different comedians started trying doing it.

3 December 2020 Abu Bakr

When knowledge is limited – it leads to folly… When knowledge exceeds a certain limit, it leads to exploitation.

3 December 2020 Claude Bernard

Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge.

3 December 2020 Lord Chesterfield

Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

3 December 2020 Buffalo Bill

Wild Bill was anything but a quarrelsome man yet I have personal knowledge of at least half a dozen men whom he had at various times killed.

3 December 2020 Liberty Hyde Bailey

Anyone who acquires more than the usual amount of knowledge concerning a subject is bound to leave it as his contribution to the knowledge of the world.

3 December 2020 James M. Baldwin

Like all science, psychology is knowledge and like science again, it is knowledge of a definite thing, the mind.

3 December 2020 Henry Adams

Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.

3 December 2020 Chris Tucker

I think all the knowledge and all the travels that I’ve done, I’m going to do a lot of great work in the future.

3 December 2020 Steven Hatfill

But I am just as appalled that my experience, knowledge, dedication and service relative to defending the United States against biological warfare has been turned against me in connection with the search for the anthrax killer.

3 December 2020 Peter Drucker

Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.

3 December 2020 Mary Augusta Ward

English girls’ schools today providing the higher education are, so far as my knowledge goes, worthily representative of that astonishing rise in the intellectual standards of women which has taken place in the last half-century.

3 December 2020 Plato

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

3 December 2020 H. G. Wells

Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.

3 December 2020 Charles Caleb Colton

That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.

3 December 2020 Ellsworth Huntington

No part of the world can be truly understood without a knowledge of its garment of vegetation, for this determines not only the nature of the animal inhabitants but also the occupations of the majority of human beings.

3 December 2020 Immanuel Kant

I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.

3 December 2020 Fannie Farmer

I certainly feel that the time is not far distant when a knowledge of the principles of diet will be an essential part of one’s education. Then mankind will eat to live, be able to do better mental and physical work and disease will be less frequent.

3 December 2020 Will Durant

Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.

3 December 2020 Thomas B. Macaulay

The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners.

3 December 2020 Immanuel Kant

Intuition and concepts constitute… the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.

3 December 2020 William Penn

Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.

3 December 2020 Polykarp Kusch

Indeed science alone may perhaps be sterile when pursued without an understanding of the world in which scientific knowledge is created and in which the fruits of science are used.

3 December 2020 Terry Goodkind

Knowledge is a weapon. I intend to be formidably armed.

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